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The Computational Molecular Biology and Statistics Core at the Wadsworth Center is acknowledged for providing computing resources. This work was supported in part by National Science Foundation grant DBI-0650991 and National Institutes of Health grant GM068726 to Y.D.

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Ding, Y. (2010). RNA Secondary Structure Prediction and Gene Regulation by Small RNAs. In: Feng, J., Fu, W., Sun, F. (eds) Frontiers in Computational and Systems Biology. Computational Biology, vol 15. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84996-196-7_2

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