title: Modeling RNA secondary structures. I. Mathematical structural model for predicting RNA secondary structures.
abstract: A mathematical model for analyzing the secondary structures of RNA is developed that is based on the connection matrix associated with the planar p-h graph. The classification of the elementary structures allows the introduction of the basis of structural space from which to build the global secondary structure. All admissible solutions belong to the configuration space and can be obtained directly from its basis.
authors.affiliation: Département de mathématique, Université de Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Söler
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Jankowski
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D008433:Mathematics; D008958:Models, Molecular; D009690:Nucleic Acid Conformation; D012313:RNA / Q000737:chemistry*
chemical_list: D012313:RNA