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Table 2 MFE Secondary Structures: calibrated ambiguity indexes, by RNA family

From: Base-pair ambiguity and the kinetics of RNA folding

 

Number

Median

Median

Family

molecules

length

αT-S

Group I Introns

116

451

0.833

Group II Introns

34

990

0.841

tmRNA

404

363

0.867

SRP RNA

346

274

0.803

RNase P

407

330

0.955

16s rRNA

279

1512

0.982

23s rRNA

59

2913

1.000

  1. Identical to Table 1, except that the ambiguity indexes and their calibrations are calculated using the MFE secondary structures rather than comparative analyses. There is little evidence in the MFE secondary structures for lower ambiguity indexes among the unbound RNA molecules