RNA pseudoknot Daniel Aalberts

Professor of Physics

Williams College


Research Interests

Polymer physics of RNA loops, algorithms for RNA binding, splicing models, base stacking. More information on Williams College page


Selected Publications

Quantifying optimal accuracy of local primary sequence bioinformatics methods (2005) D. P. Aalberts, E. G. Daub, and J. W. Dill Bioinformatics 21, 3347-3351. (more ...)

Asymmetry in RNA pseudoknots: observation and theory (2005) D. P. Aalberts and N. O. Hodas Nucleic Acids Res. 33, 2210-2214. (more ...)

Efficient computation of optimal oligo-RNA binding (2004) N. O. Hodas and D. P. Aalberts Nucleic Acids Res. 32, 6636-6642. (more ...)

Thermodynamic modeling of donor splice site recognition in pre-mRNA (2004) J. A. Garland and D. P. Aalberts Phys. Rev. E 69, 059903 (more ...)

Single-strand stacking free energy from DNA beacon kinetics (2003) D. P. Aalberts, J. M. Parman, and N. L. Goddard Biophys. J. 84, 3212-3217. (more ...)


Lab Members with RNA-related projects

Jeff Meng (Senior Thesis Student, '11)

Becca Sullivan (Senior Thesis Student, '11)