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diff --git a/academic/ViennaRNA/README b/academic/ViennaRNA/README new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..84581ebcf2ff --- /dev/null +++ b/academic/ViennaRNA/README @@ -0,0 +1,28 @@ +# ViennaRNA Package + +A C code library and several stand-alone programs for the prediction and comparison of RNA secondary structures. + +Amongst other things, our implementations allow you to: + +- predict minimum free energy secondary structures +- calculate the partition function for the ensemble of structures +- compute various equilibrium probabilities +- calculate suboptimal structures in a given energy range +- compute local structures in long sequences +- predict consensus secondary structures from a multiple sequence alignment +- predict melting curves +- search for sequences folding into a given structure +- compare two secondary structures +- predict hybridization structures of two RNA molecules + +The package includes `Perl 5`, `Python 2`, and `Python 3` modules that give +access to almost all functions of the C library from within the respective +scripting languages. + +There is also a set of programs for analyzing sequence and distance +data using split decomposition, statistical geometry, and cluster methods. +They are not maintained any more and not built by default. + +The code very rarely uses static arrays, and all programs should work for +sequences up to a length of 32,700 (if you have huge amounts of memory that +is). |