The DINAMelt Server

Users of the DINAMelt Server are requested to cite:

Markham, N. R. & Zuker, M. (2005) DINAMelt web server for nucleic acid melting prediction. Nucleic Acids Res., 33, W577-W581.
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Markham, N. R. & Zuker, M. (2008) UNAFold: software for nucleic acid folding and hybriziation. In Keith, J. M., editor, Bioinformatics, Volume II. Structure, Functions and Applications, number 453 in Methods in Molecular Biology, chapter 1, pages 3–31. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. ISBN 978-1-60327-428-9.

Other articles that may be relevant include:

Dimitrov, R. A. & Zuker, M. (2004) Prediction of hybridization and melting for double-stranded nucleic acids. Biophys. J., 87, 215-226.
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SantaLucia, Jr., J. (1998) A unified view of polymer, dumbbell, and oligonucleotide DNA nearest-neighbor thermodynamics. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 95, 1460-1465.
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Walter, A. E., Turner, D. H., Kim, J., Lyttle, M. H., Müller, P., Mathews, D. H. & Zuker, M. (1994) Coaxial stacking of helixes enhances binding of oligoribonucleotides and improves predictions of RNA folding. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 91, 9218-9222.
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Mathews, D. H., Sabina, J., Zuker, M. and Turner, D. H. (1999) Expanded sequence dependence of thermodynamic parameters improves prediction of RNA secondary structure. J. Mol. Biol., 288, 911-940.