LocalFold - Local Folding of RNA

Synopsis

LocalFold is a modification of the RNAplfold local folding algorithm. LocalFold only considers base-pairs centred within a window such that (i,j) are not located within the first and last positions of the windows.

Download and Installation

Latest Release: LocalFold 1.0

LocalFold runs on recent Linux systems.

A recent installation of the Vienna Package Vienna RNA package is required.

Publication

• Sita J. Lange, Daniel Maticzka, Mathias Möhl, Joshua N. Gagnon, Chris M. Brown and Rolf Backofen
  Global or local? Predicting secondary structure and accessibility in mRNAs