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Tool for calculation of free energy of most likely secondary structure of an RNA sequence

Hi,

I'm looking for an tool, which can calculate the free energy of the most likely secondary structure of an short RNA sequence (50-100nt), for the developement of an R-package. The famous mfold tool unfortunately seems to complex to integrate it into an package (the authors are contacted). I want to automate these calculations independent of the internet and therefor cannot use the webserver.

For other parts of the package, I already integrated an Perl script, but mfold is just a little to complex, I think, for integration. Do you maybe know a script which does that kind of calculations, which does not require compilation or even another R-package, that already does it?

Any help is greatefully appreciated.

rna structure free energy

ViennaRNA is the most widely used package I know of. It already has various wrappers/ports for integration in a number of languages - R may already be one of these (I know python is).

thank you very much! I did no see that after my initial quick readthrough and will definitly look into it.

Ok, so there is an R-package called LncFinder which can be used to apply ViennaRNA in R, in case someone is interested.

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