94-04-03
Abstract:
Combinatorics of RNA Secondary Structures
Ivo L. Hofacker, Peter Schuster, and Peter F. Stadler
Secondary structures of polynucleotides can be view as a certain class of planar
vertex-labeled graphs. We construct recursion formulae enumerating various
sub-classes of these graphs as well as certain structural elements
(sub-graphs). First order asymptotics are derived and their dependence on the
logic of base pairing is computed and discussed.
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