RNA Web Services

This tutorial aims to give a basic introduction to using the command line programs in the ViennaRNA Package in a UNIX-like (LINUX) environment. Of course, some of you may ask ``Why are there no friendly graphical user interfaces?''. Well, there are some, especially in the form of web services.

If a few simple structure predictions is all you want to do, there are several useful sites for doing RNA structure analysis available on the web. Indeed many of the tasks described below can be performed using various web servers.