Nucleic Acids Research Advance Access published online on April 19, 2008
Nucleic Acids Research, doi:10.1093/nar/gkn188
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The Vienna RNA Websuite
1Institute for Theoretical Chemistry, University of Vienna, Währingerstraße 17, 1090 Wien, Austria and 2Bioinformatics Group, Department of Computer Science, and Interdisciplinary Center for Bioinformatics, University of Leipzig, Härtelstrasse 16-18, D-04107 Leipzig, Germany
*To whom correspondence should be addressed. Tel: +43 1 4277 52738; Fax: +43 1 4277 52793; Email: ivo{at}tbi.univie.ac.at
Received February 28, 2008. Revised March 28, 2008. Accepted March 31, 2008.
The Vienna RNA Websuite is a comprehensive collection of tools for folding, design and analysis of RNA sequences. It provides a web interface to the most commonly used programs of the Vienna RNA package. Among them, we find folding of single and aligned sequences, prediction of RNA–RNA interactions, and design of sequences with a given structure. Additionally, we provide analysis of folding landscapes using the barriers program and structural RNA alignments using LocARNA. The web server together with software packages for download is freely accessible at http://rna.tbi.univie.ac.at/.