Introduction to BGSU RNA research group for non-specialists

Presented at an undergraduate Bioinformatics seminar to give an overview of research carried out by the BGSU RNA Bioinformatics Group.

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1. November 19, 2012 BGSU RNA Structural Bioinformatics Research Group Presented by Anton Petrov
3. Our goal is to understand recurrent structural modules found in RNA nanomachines
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7. Example of a recurrent structural motif
8. Instances of a recurrent RNA 3D motif from the Motif Atlas
9. Live Demo
10. >1000 users from >60 countries And we haven’t even published this research yet
11. Technology behind our research
12. rna.bgsu.edu PDB/NDB: Helen Berman John Westbrook Saheli Ghosn Buvna Narayanan Alumni: Jesse Stombaugh Ryan Rahrig Amal Abu Almakarem Irina Novikova Lab members: Neocles Leontis Craig Zirbel Anton Petrov Blake Sweeney James Roll Emil Khisamutdinov Anton Alenko Steve Dinda