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JOURNAL OF BIOINFORMATICS AND COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY
Volume 9, Issue 2, Pages 283-298Publisher
IMPERIAL COLLEGE PRESS
DOI: 10.1142/S0219720011005495
Keywords
Noncoding RNA; microRNA; Shannon Entropy
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- NIGMS NIH HHS [R01GM072080-01A1] Funding Source: Medline
- Div Of Information & Intelligent Systems
- Direct For Computer & Info Scie & Enginr [0916250] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Secondary structure remains the most exploitable feature for noncoding RNA (ncRNA) gene finding in genomes. However, methods based on secondary structure prediction may generate superfluous amount of candidates for validation and have yet to deliver the desired performance that can complement experimental efforts in ncRNA gene finding. This paper investigates a novel method, unpaired structural entropy (USE) as a measurement for the structure fold stability of ncRNAs. USE proves to be effective in identifying from the genome background a class of ncRNAs, such as precursor microRNAs (pre-miRNAs) that contains a long stem hairpin loop. USE correlates well and performs better than other measures on pre-miRNAs, including the previously formulated structural entropy. As an SVM classifier, USE outperforms existing pre-miRNA classifiers. A long stem hairpin loop is common for a number of other functional RNAs including introns splicing hairpins loops and intrinsic termination hairpin loops. We believe USE can be further applied in developing ab initio prediction programs for a larger class of ncRNAs.
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