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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Mar 8.
Published in final edited form as: Bull Math Biol. 2008 Dec 13;71(1):84–106. doi: 10.1007/s11538-008-9353-y

Table 1.

Loop structures and associated free energies at 37° [15, 25].

Name Branching degree dG 2.3 dG 3.0
Hairpin 0 3.5 4.10
Internal 1 3.0 2.3
Branching d ≥ 2 4.6 - 0.2 (d + 1) 3.4 - 1.5 (d + 1)