Inside the RNA analysis: sequences, structures and functions
From a bioinformatician's point of view, RNA is a very peculiar molecule because
the structure prediction ("folding") problem can be solved efficiently at the
coarsegrained level of secondary structures. This has far-reaching consequences
for computational approaches to RNA at many levels of investigation. Indeed, the
folding dynamics of individual molecules can be understood in the same discretized
framework that allows genome-wide studies. In this course, we will systematially
explore this issue.