Shape based indexing for faster search of RNA family databases

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Most non-coding RNA families exert their function by means of a conserved, common secondary structure. The Rfam data base contains more than five hundred structurally annotated RNA families. Unfortunately, searching for new family me...

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Main Authors: Reeder Jens, Janssen Stefan, Giegerich Robert
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2008-02-01
Series:BMC Bioinformatics
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/9/131