title: RNA structures and folding: from conventional to new issues in structure predictions.
abstract: Prediction and modeling of RNA structures has become an indispensable tool of biological research disciplines. Currently, reliable predictions require massive input of experimental data. Structure-forming elements are conventional base pairs, as well as a rapidly increasing repertoire of novel structural motifs. New developments extend structural analysis beyond the one-sequence/one-structure paradigm and allow questions that are relevant to molecular evolution to be answered.
authors.affiliation: Institut für Theoretische Chemie und Strahlenchemie, Universität Wien, Währingerstrabetae 17, A-1090, Wien, Austria. pks@tbi.univie.ac.at
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Schuster
authors.forename: P F
authors.initials: PF
authors.lastname: Stadler
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Renner
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D008958:Models, Molecular; D009690:Nucleic Acid Conformation; D010802:Phylogeny; D012313:RNA / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D017423:Sequence Analysis, RNA
chemical_list: D012313:RNA