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    Predicting RNA Scaffolds with a Hybrid Method of Vfold3D and VfoldLA

    The ever-increasing discoveries of noncoding RNA functions draw a strong demand for RNA structure determination from the sequence. In recently years, computational studies for RNA structures, at both the two-d...

    **aojun Xu, Shi-Jie Chen in RNA Scaffolds (2021)

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    The Gene Balance Hypothesis: Epigenetics and Dosage Effects in Plants

    Dosage effects in plants are caused by changes in the copy number of chromosomes, segments of chromosomes, or multiples of individual genes. Genes often exhibit a dosage effect in which the amount of product i...

    **aowen Shi, Chen Chen, Hua Yang, Jie Hou, Tieming Ji in Plant Epigenetics and Epigenomics (2020)

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    Predicting RNA Structure with Vfold

    In order to carry out biological functions, RNA molecules must fold into specific three-dimensional (3D) structures. Current experimental methods to determine RNA 3D structures are expensive and time consuming...

    Chenhan Zhao, **aojun Xu, Shi-Jie Chen in Functional Genomics (2017)

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    A New Method to Predict Ion Effects in RNA Folding

    The strong interaction between metal ions in solution and highly charged RNA molecules is critical for RNA structure formation and stabilization. Metal ions binding to RNA can induce RNA structural changes tha...

    Li-Zhen Sun, Shi-Jie Chen in RNA Nanostructures (2017)

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    A Method to Predict the Structure and Stability of RNA/RNA Complexes

    RNA/RNA interactions are essential for genomic RNA dimerization and regulation of gene expression. Intermolecular loop–loop base pairing is a widespread and functionally important tertiary structure motif in R...

    **aojun Xu, Shi-Jie Chen in RNA Structure Determination (2016)

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    A Method to Predict the 3D Structure of an RNA Scaffold

    The ever increasing discoveries of noncoding RNA functions draw a strong demand for RNA structure determination from the sequence. In recently years, computational studies for RNA structures, at both the two-d...

    **aojun Xu, Shi-Jie Chen in RNA Scaffolds (2015)

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    Comparative Transcriptome Analysis for Metabolic Engineering

    Transcriptome profiling allows massively parallel analysis of the dynamic expression of all genes and captures the cell physiology and regulatory mechanism in a holistic manner. Compared to other “omic” techni...

    Shuobo Shi, Tao Chen, Xueming Zhao in Systems Metabolic Engineering (2013)