WWW RNA resources:

NDB the nucleic acid database.

The RNA World at IMB Jena, links to lots of useful RNA web sites.

The RNA Page by Michael Zuker, thermodynamics and RNA folding.

RNA Journal.

San Francisco Bay Area RNA Club, links to multiple RNA labs.

RNA Secondary Structures, including Group I intron and some rRNA database.

The RNA society.

Thomas Cech laboratory, hear from the Nobel Prize winner.

J. Doudna Lab, X-ray crystallography on RNA.

J. Szostak Lab, in vitro and in vivo selection of RNA.

 

Reference:

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