Discrete Mathematical Biology Working Seminar

Series
Other Talks
Time
Tuesday, September 11, 2012 - 10:00am for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 114
Speaker
Will Perkins – Georgia Tech
Organizer
Christine Heitsch
We will discuss how best to model and predict the co-transcriptional effects of RNA folding. That is, using the fact that the RNA molecule begins folding as the sequence is still being transcribed, can we find better predictions for the secondary structure? And what is a good mathematical model for the process?