2007/11/21 by François David, Francois David, Christian Hagendorf +2
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Physics and Astronomy · #DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry #RNA Research and Splicing #RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms #cond-mat.stat-mech #q-bio.BM
paper · pdf · doi:10.1088/1742-5468/2008/04/p04008
published as J. Stat. Mech. (2008) P04008
arxiv created 2007/11/21 · openalex publication_date 2008/04/09 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/30
A hierarchical model for the growth of planar arch structures for RNA secondary structures is presented, and shown to be equivalent to a tree-growth model. Both models can be solved analytically, giving access to scaling functions for large molecules, and corrections to scaling, checked by numerical simulations of up to 6500 bases. The equivalence of both models should be helpful in understanding more general tree-growth processes.