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BIOINFORMATICS
Volume 24, Issue 24, Pages 2849-2856Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btn544
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- German Federal Ministry of Education and Research [0313921 FRISYS]
- German Research Foundation [BA 2168/2-1 SPP 1258]
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Motivation: During the last few years, several new small regulatory RNAs (sRNAs) have been discovered in bacteria. Most of them act as post-transcriptional regulators by base pairing to a target mRNA, causing translational repression or activation, or mRNA degradation. Numerous sRNAs have already been identified, but the number of experimentally verified targets is considerably lower. Consequently, computational target prediction is in great demand. Many existing target prediction programs neglect the accessibility of target sites and the existence of a seed, while other approaches are either specialized to certain types of RNAs or too slow for genome-wide searches. Results: We introduce INTARNA, a new general and fast approach to the prediction of RNA-RNA interactions incorporating accessibility of target sites as well as the existence of a user-definable seed. We successfully applied INTARNA to the prediction of bacterial sRNA targets and determined the exact locations of the interactions with a higher accuracy than competing programs.
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