Make-na

make-na is a program for automation of making nucleic acid helices by NAB.

Examples

Uses "ASCII-art".

ATACCGATACGATAGAC
  TGGCTATGCTATCTGTA

  CGATACGATAGAC
uGGCuAuGCuAuCuGuA

ACTATAGGATACCAT
 GATAggCTATGGTA

#   This is my favorite DNA.
5' -    ATACCGATACGATAGAC    -3'
3' -      TGGCTATGCTATCTGTA  -5'

References

• Arnott S, Hukins DWL, Dover SD, Fuller W, Hodgson AR (1973). "Structures of synthetic polynucleotides in the A-RNA and A'-RNA conformations. X-ray diffraction analyses of the molecule conformations of (polyadenylic acid) and (polyinosinic acid).(polycytidylic acid)". J Mol Biol, 81(2):107-122.
• Arnott S, Chandrasekaran R, Birdsall DL, Leslie AGW, Ratliff RL (1980). "Left-handed DNA helices". Nature, 283(5749):743-745.
• Sasisekharan V, Lakshminarayanan AV (1969). "Stereochemistry of nucleic acids and polynucleotides". Biochim Biophys Acta, 204:49-53.
• Fuller W, Wilkins MHF, Wilson HR, Hamilton LD, Arnott S (1965). J Mol Biol, 12:60.
• Arnott S, Campbell Smith P J, Chandraseharan R (1976). "Handbook of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology", 3rd Edition. Nucleic Acids—Volume II, Fasman GP, ed. (Cleveland: CRC Press, 1976), pp. 411-422.

External links

• homepage
• make-na server