Nucleic Acids Research Advance Access originally published online on April 29, 2008
Nucleic Acids Research 2008 36(Web Server issue):W85-W90; doi:10.1093/nar/gkn220
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Nucleic Acids Research, 2008, Vol. 36, No. suppl_2 W85-W90
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NOBAI: a web server for character coding of geometrical and statistical features in RNA structure
1Department of Crop Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL 61801, USA and 2Center for Information Technology Services, University of Oslo, 0316 Oslo, Norway
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Received January 14, 2008. Revised March 31, 2008. Accepted April 10, 2008.
The Numeration of Objects in Biology: Alignment Inferences (NOBAI) web server provides a web interface to the applications in the NOBAI software package. This software codes topological and thermodynamic information related to the secondary structure of RNA molecules as multi-state phylogenetic characters, builds character matrices directly in NEXUS format and provides sequence randomization options. The web server is an effective tool that facilitates the search for evolutionary history embedded in the structure of functional RNA molecules. The NOBAI web server is accessible at http://www.manet.uiuc.edu/nobai/nobai.php. This web site is free and open to all users and there is no login requirement.