title: Multiple RNA structure alignment.
abstract: RNA structures can be viewed as a kind of special strings with some characters bonded with each other. The question of aligning two RNA structures has been studied for a while, and there are several successful algorithms that are based upon different models. In this paper, by adopting the model introduced in [18], we propose two algorithms to attack the question of aligning multiple RNA structures. We reduce the multiple RNA structure alignment problem to the problem of aligning two RNA structure alignments.
authors.affiliation: Experimental Therapeutics, Research, University Heath Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. zwang@uhnres.utoronto.ca
authors.forename: Zhuozhi
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Kaizhong
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Zhang
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D003198:Computer Simulation; D008956:Models, Chemical; D008958:Models, Molecular; D009690:Nucleic Acid Conformation; D012313:RNA / Q000032:analysis / Q000737:chemistry*; D016415:Sequence Alignment / Q000379:methods*; D017423:Sequence Analysis, RNA / Q000379:methods*; D012689:Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid
chemical_list: D012313:RNA