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Evolving RNA
by
Paul Gardner
Massey University
Coauthors: Mike Hendy, David Penny
Minimum free energy techniques of predicting RNA secondary structure provides a unique opportunity to systematically explore the phenotypic fitness of various genotypes.
In addition recent experiments utilising the principle of an adaptive walk on a fitness landscape have shown that a population of RNA sequences with certain desirable characteristics can be ``evolved'' either in-silicate (test tube) or in-silco (computer).
I intend to present results that explore fundamental biological questions using these concepts and computational techniques.
Date received: October 24, 2001
Copyright © 2001 by the author(s). The author(s) of this document and the organizers of the conference have granted their consent to include this abstract in Atlas Conferences Inc. Document # cahf-39.