A toolkit for creating three-dimensional RNA pencil models
Department of Biology, Indiana University Bloomington IN 47405, USA
The advantages of nucleotide-resolution models over atomic-resolution and cylinder models of large RNA structure are discussed, and a toolkit of RNA substructures for use in building pencil models is described. Prefabricated elements from the toolkit can be used to quickly assemble complex RNA structure models for the visualization of known RNA structures, or for exploring potential tertiary structure configurations based on secondary structure and other information.
; accepted on October 15, 1992