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Abstract
The abbreviated name, 'mfold web server', describes a number of closely related software
applications available on the World Wide Web (WWW) for the prediction of the secondary
structure of single stranded nucleic acids. The objective of this web server is to
provide easy access to RNA and DNA folding and hybridization software to the scientific
community at large. By making use of universally available web GUIs (Graphical User
Interfaces), the server circumvents the problem of portability of this software. Detailed
output, in the form of structure plots with or without reliability information, single
strand frequency plots and 'energy dot plots', are available for the folding of single
sequences. A variety of 'bulk' servers give less information, but in a shorter time
and for up to hundreds of sequences at once. The portal for the mfold web server is
http://www.bioinfo.rpi.edu/applications/mfold. This URL will be referred to as 'MFOLDROOT'.