期刊
JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY
卷 13, 期 2, 页码 283-295出版社
MARY ANN LIEBERT, INC
DOI: 10.1089/cmb.2006.13.283
关键词
RNA secondary structure prediction; RNA consensus folding; RNA stack configuration; dynamic programming
As one of the earliest problems in computational biology, RNA secondary structure prediction (sometimes referred to as RNA folding) problem has attracted attention again, thanks to the recent discoveries of many novel non-coding RNA molecules. The two common approaches to this problem are de novo prediction of RNA secondary structure based on energy minimization and the consensus folding approach (computing the common secondary structure for a set of unaligned RNA sequences). Consensus folding algorithms work well when the correct seed alignment is part of the input to the problem. However, seed alignment itself is a challenging problem for diverged RNA families. In this paper, we propose a novel framework to predict the common secondary structure for unaligned RNA sequences. By matching putative stacks in RNA sequences, we make use of both primary sequence information and thermodynamic stability for prediction at the same time. We show that our method can predict the correct common RNA secondary structures even when we are given only a limited number of unaligned RNA sequences, and it outperforms current algorithms in sensitivity and accuracy.
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