SynBERC:MIT/Calendar/2007-1-17
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Anyone in the synthetic biology community is welcome to attend.
Wednesday at 1pm
56-614, MIT
Topic of discussion
This week's lunch will be a journal club on papers covering the algorithms and validation testing of RNA folding programs like UNAfold, Sfold and Vienna fold.
Papers:
- Do CB, Woods DA, and Batzoglou S. CONTRAfold: RNA secondary structure prediction without physics-based models. Bioinformatics 2006 Jul 15; 22(14) e90-8. doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btl246 pmid:16873527.
Results section only, especially Fig. 4 and Tables 3-4 - Mathews DH. Revolutions in RNA secondary structure prediction. J Mol Biol 2006 Jun 9; 359(3) 526-32. doi:10.1016/j.jmb.2006.01.067 pmid:16500677.
- Shao Y, Wu Y, Chan CY, McDonough K, and Ding Y. Rational design and rapid screening of antisense oligonucleotides for prokaryotic gene modulation. Nucleic Acids Res 2006; 34(19) 5660-9. doi:10.1093/nar/gkl715 pmid:17038332.
For more information see papers recommended by Chase in the Smolke lab.


