Title |
LocARNAscan: Incorporating thermodynamic stability in sequence and structure-based RNA homology search
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Published in |
Algorithms for Molecular Biology, April 2013
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DOI | 10.1186/1748-7188-8-14 |
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Authors |
Sebastian Will, Michael F Siebauer, Steffen Heyne, Jan Engelhardt, Peter F Stadler, Kristin Reiche, Rolf Backofen |
Abstract |
The search for distant homologs has become an import issue in genome annotation. A particular difficulty is posed by divergent homologs that have lost recognizable sequence similarity. This same problem also arises in the recognition of novel members of large classes of RNAs such as snoRNAs or microRNAs that consist of families unrelated by common descent. Current homology search tools for structured RNAs are either based entirely on sequence similarity (such as blast or hmmer) or combine sequence and secondary structure. The most prominent example of the latter class of tools is Infernal. Alternatives are descriptor-based methods. In most practical applications published to-date, however, the information contained in covariance models or manually prescribed search patterns is dominated by sequence information. Here we ask two related questions: (1) Is secondary structure alone informative for homology search and the detection of novel members of RNA classes? (2) To what extent is the thermodynamic propensity of the target sequence to fold into the correct secondary structure helpful for this task? |
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