title: CARD: a drawing tool for RNA secondary structure models.
abstract: A graphical editor was developed to create publication-quality representations of RNA secondary structure models. A user-defined model can be gradually assembled from structural elements such as helix segments and loops. The type of structural element to be drawn is chosen from a menu. Its nucleotide sequence has to be entered from the keyboard. Afterwards, drawings can be manipulated by moving, deleting, rotating, copying or changing the structural elements separately. An example of a secondary structure model is given for a complete 18S rRNA molecule.
authors.affiliation: Departement Biochemie, Universiteit Antwerpen, Belgium.
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Winnepenninckx
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Van de Peer
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Backeljau
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: De Wachter
mesh_terms: D009690:Nucleic Acid Conformation; D012313:RNA / Q000032:analysis*; D012984:Software
chemical_list: D012313:RNA