Bioinformatics Vol. 16 no. 11 2000
Pages 1042-1043
© 2000 Oxford University Press
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Circles: automating the comparative analysis of RNA secondary structure
1 Division of Environmental and Evolutionary Biology, Institute of Biomedical and Life Sciences, Graham Kerr Building, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, UK
Received on May 21, 2000
; revised on July 4, 2000
; accepted on July 7, 2000
Summary: Circles is a program for inferring RNA secondary structure using maximum weight matching. The program can read in an alignment in FASTA, ClustalW, or NEXUS format, compute a maximum weight matching, and export one or more secondary structures in various file formats.
Availability: The program is available at no cost from http://taxonomy.zoology.gla.ac.uk/rod/circles/ and requires Windows 95/98/NT.
Contact: r.page{at}bio.gla.ac.uk