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<li><span style="font-family: helvetica;">[[Creating a good starting sequence]] can help you solve easy puzzles more quickly.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: helvetica;">[[Creating a good starting sequence]] can help you solve easy puzzles more quickly.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: helvetica;">[[Placing GC pairs at the end of stacks]] is often an effective way of lowering energy.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: helvetica;">[[Placing GC pairs at the end of stacks]] can favor the target folding by lowering the energy of both its stems and loops.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: helvetica;">[[Boosting]] can help lower loop energy.<br /></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Loop [[boosting]] can favor the target folding by lowering the energy of its loops.<br /></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Using [[special sequences]] may be required to create certain secondary structures.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Using [[special sequences]] may be required to create certain secondary structures.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: helvetica;">[[Base Pair Flipping|Exchanging the positions of two paired bases]] can often stabilize long stacks that have mispaired.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: helvetica;">[[Base Pair Flipping|Exchanging the positions of two paired bases]] can often stabilize long stacks that have mispaired.</span></li>

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Puzzles and lab differ considerably in EteRNA. Tactics and strategies that are effective in one aspect of the game are not guaranteed to help in others.

 

Puzzles 

Puzzles in EteRNA vary widely in difficulty. Many solutions can be found quickly, without using every tactic available. The hardest puzzles often employ creative uses of the "rules" that dictate how RNA folds in EteRNA.

 

Labs