title: PseudoViewer: web application and web service for visualizing RNA pseudoknots and secondary structures.
abstract: Visualizing RNA secondary structures and pseudoknot structures is essential to bioinformatics systems that deal with RNA structures. However, many bioinformatics systems use heterogeneous data structures and incompatible software components, so integration of software components (including a visualization component) into a system can be hindered by incompatibilities between the components of the system. This paper presents an XML web service and web application program for visualizing RNA secondary structures with pseudoknots. Experimental results show that the PseudoViewer web service and web application are useful for resolving many problems with incompatible software components as well as for visualizing large-scale RNA secondary structures with pseudoknots of any type. The web service and web application are available at http://pseudoviewer.inha.ac.kr/.
authors.affiliation: School of Computer Science and Engineering, Inha University, Inchon 402-751, Korea.
authors.forename: Yanga
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Byun
authors.forename: Kyungsook
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Han
mesh_terms: D019295:Computational Biology / Q000379:methods; D003196:Computer Graphics; D020407:Internet; D009690:Nucleic Acid Conformation; D012313:RNA / Q000737:chemistry*; D012984:Software; D014584:User-Computer Interface
chemical_list: D012313:RNA