A steepest descent calculation of RNA pseudoknots

Abstract

We enumerate possible topologies of pseudoknots in single-stranded RNA molecules. We use a steepest-descent approximation in the large N matrix field theory, and a Feynman diagram formalism to describe the resulting pseudoknot structure.

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• RNA Folding and Large N Matrix Theory

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