Databases and Web Tools for RNA

Three-dimensional structures (coordinates and images)
RNA Sequences, Secondary structures, Other
Web Tools for RNA

RNA Software

  • 3DNA (versatile package for analyzing and rebuilding 3-dimensional nucleic acid structure)
  • CARD (RNA secondary structure drawing) Does anybody know the new web address ?
  • COVE (RNA structure analysis using covariance models)
  • CURVES (helical analysis of irregular nucleic acid structures)
  • DCSE (sequence editor ) Does anybody know the new web address ?
  • ERPIN (Easy RNA Profile IdentificatioN)
  • ESSA (RNA secondary structure analysis )
  • INFERNAL (inference of RNA secondary structure alignments)
  • kfold (kinetic folding of RNA)
  • Mc-Sym (molecular modeling using constraint satisfaction)
  • mfold, UNAFOLD (RNA/DNA secondary structure prediction
  • NAB (generation of models for unusual RNA and DNA)
  • NAMOT (Nucleic Acid MOdeling Tool)
  • PKNOTs (RNA pseudoknot prediction)
  • QRNA (ncRNA genefinder)
  • RALEE (RNA ALignment Editor in Emacs)
  • RNABOB (pattern searching for RNA secondary structures)
  • RNACAD (stochastic context-free grammar RNA modeling package that accounts for both primary and secondary structure information)
  • RNAdraw
  • RNAMotif
  • RNA Movies (visualizing RNA secondary structure spaces)
  • RNAstructure (MS-Windows implemenation of the Zuker algorithm for RNA folding accompanied by additional tools)
  • RNAMLview/RNAView (generates 2-dimensional displays of RNA/DNA secondary structures with tertiary interactions)
  • RnaViz (secondary structure drawing of RNA)
  • SStructView (RNA secondary structure Java applet)
  • STAR (STructure Analysis of RNA)
  • tRNAscan-SE (tRNA detection in large-scale genome sequences)
  • Yammp (modeling and refinement of low-resolution nucleic acid models)
  • Vienna RNA package (RNA secondary structure prediction and comparison)

Online Books and Tutorials


RNA Meetings


RNA Miscellaneus


RNA Search

If the information you need is not available via one of the links you can try

Internet Search Engines

or Bibliographic Databases like the

  • PubMed Retrieval System (PubMed searches the currently abot 18 million citations in MEDLINE supplemented by pre-Medline citations which do not yet have MeSH index terms and by citations supplied electronically by publishers)

or combined Bibliographic/Sequence/Structure Databases such as