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most citedA coarse-grained model with implicit salt for RNAs: predicting 3D structure, stability and salt effect

90 citations · 197 across the 5 of their papers we have counts for

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physics.bio-ph2015★ 58 cited

Predicting 3D structure, flexibility and stability of RNA hairpins in monovalent and divalent ion solutions

Ya-Zhou Shi, Lei Jin, Feng-Hua Wang +2

A full understanding of RNA-mediated biology would require the knowledge of three-dimensional (3D) structures, structural flexibility and stability of RNAs. To predict RNA 3D struc…

physics.bio-ph2014★ 90 cited

A coarse-grained model with implicit salt for RNAs: predicting 3D structure, stability and salt effect

Ya-Zhou Shi, Feng-Hua Wang, Yuan-Yan Wu +1

To bridge the gap between the sequences and 3-dimensional (3D) structures of RNAs, some computational models have been proposed for predicting RNA 3D structures. However, the exist…

physics.bio-ph2014★ 35 cited

RNA structure prediction: progress and perspective

Ya-Zhou Shi, Yuan-Yan Wu, Feng-Hua Wang +1

Many recent exciting discoveries have revealed the versatility of RNAs and their importance in a variety of cellular functions which are strongly coupled to RNA structures. To unde…

physics.bio-ph2013★ 14 cited

Calculating potential of mean force between like-charged nanoparticles: a comprehensive study on salt effects

Yuan-Yan Wu, Feng-Hua Wang, Zhi-Jie Tan

Ions are critical to the structure and stability of polyelectrolytes such as nucleic acids. In this work, we systematically calculated the potentials of mean force between two like…

physics.bio-ph2012

Salt Contribution to the Flexibility of Single-stranded Nucleic Acid of Finite Length

Feng-Hua Wang, Yuan-Yan Wu, Zhi-Jie Tan

Nucleic acids are negatively charged macromolecules and their structure properties are strongly coupled to metal ions in solutions. In this paper, the salt effects on the flexibili…