References

The RBS Calculator (v1.0) uses the NUPACK software suite:

Dirks RM, Bois JS, Schaeffer JM, Winfree E, Pierce NA, "Thermodynamic Analysis of Interacting Nucleic Acid Strands", SIAM Review, 2007

and the RNA energy model (mfold3.0), developed by:

Mathews DH, Sabina J, Zuker M, and Turner DH, "Expanded sequence dependence of thermodynamic parameters improves prediction of RNA secondary structure", Journal of Molecular Biology, 1999

Xia T, SantaLucia, J Jr., Burkard ME, Kierzek R, Schroeder SJ, Jiao X, Cox C, and Turner DH, "Thermodynamic Parameters for an Expanded Nearest-Neighbor Model for Formation of RNA Duplexes with Watson-Crick Base Pairs", Biochemistry, 1998