Abstract
The ViennaRNA package is a widely used collection of programs for thermodynamic RNA secondary structure prediction. Over the years, many additional tools have been developed building on the core programs of the package to also address issues related to noncoding RNA detection, RNA folding kinetics, or efficient sequence design considering RNA-RNA hybridizations. The ViennaRNA web services provide easy and user-friendly web access to these tools. This chapter describes how to use this online platform to perform tasks such as prediction of minimum free energy structures, prediction of RNA-RNA hybrids, or noncoding RNA detection. The ViennaRNA web services can be used free of charge and can be accessed via http://rna.tbi.univie.ac.at.
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This work was supported in part by the University of Basel, the Austrian FWF project “SFB F43 RNA regulation of the transcriptome,” and the University of Leipzig.
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Gruber, A.R., Bernhart, S.H., Lorenz, R. (2015). The ViennaRNA Web Services. In: Picardi, E. (eds) RNA Bioinformatics. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 1269. Humana Press, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-2291-8_19
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