Model-Free RNA Sequence and Structure Alignment Informed by SHAPE Probing Reveals a Conserved Alternate Secondary Structure for 16S rRNA

• Christopher A. Lavender,

  Affiliation Department of Chemistry, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Ronny Lorenz,

  Affiliations Institute for Theoretical Chemistry, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, Bioinformatics Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

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• Ge Zhang,

  Affiliation Department of Chemistry, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Rita Tamayo,

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Ivo L. Hofacker,

  Affiliations Institute for Theoretical Chemistry, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

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• Kevin M. Weeks

  * E-mail: weeks@unc.edu

  Affiliation Department of Chemistry, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

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