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Comment
. 2015 Jan 6;108(1):14-6.
doi: 10.1016/j.bpj.2014.11.010.

Viral ssRNAs are indeed compact

A Ben-Shaul  1 , W M Gelbart  2
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Viral ssRNAs are indeed compact

A Ben-Shaul et al. Biophys J. .
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Figure 1
Minimum free energy secondary structures of (A) the 3200-nt RNA molecule of the brome mosaic virus (BMV); and (B) a random 3200-nt RNA sequence with equal proportions of the four bases. The MLD paths of the two structures (colored red) are 207 and 354, respectively.
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