(formerly known as Institute of Molecular Biotechnology - IMB)

Welcome to The RNA World Website at FLI Jena. This web resource lists Internet links on RNA related topics.
(Note that as of October 2005 the name of the IMB Jena was changed to Leibniz Institute for Age Research - Fritz Lipmann Institute - FLI).

2005: FEBS Letters Special Issue on RNAi [open access]
2005: Nature Reviews focus on RNA interference [freely available until October 2006]
includes an animation (requires Macromedia Flash Player for the animation or alternatively Apple Quicktime for the movies)
2003: Breakthrough of the Year (19 December 2003 issue of Science) [free]
Small RNA molecules among the runners-up [requires subscription]
2002: Breakthrough of the year (20 December 2002 issue of Science) [free]
D. Kennedy, Editorial, Science 298, 2283 (2002)
J. Couzin, Breakthrough of the year: small RNAs make big slash, Science 298, 2296 (2002) [requires subscription]


Three-dimensional structures (coordinates and images)
Sequences, Secondary structures, Other
Web Tools
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  • 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)
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If the information you need is not available via one of the links you can try

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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
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J. Sühnel (jsuehnel@fli-leibniz.de ) Biology and Computers
Last update: July 2009