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RNAs self-interact through hydrogen-bond base-pairing between nucleotides and fold into specific, stable structures that substantially govern their biochemical behaviour. Experimental characterization of these structures remains difficult,…

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Large RNA molecules often carry multiple functional domains whose spatial arrangement is an important determinant of their function. Pre-mRNA splicing, furthermore, relies on the spatial proximity of the splice junctions that can be…

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We suggest a new mean field method for studying the thermodynamic competition between magnetic and superconducting phases in a two-dimensional square lattice. A partition function is constructed by writing microscopic interactions that…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-13 Benoit Vanderheyden , A D Jackson

The increasing importance of RNA as a prime player in biology can hardly be overstated. Problems in RNA, such as folding and RNA-RNA interactions that drive phase separation, require cations. Because experiments alone cannot reveal the…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-06-10 D. Thirumalai , Naoto Hori , Hung T. Nguyen

Non-coding RNAs are ubiquitous, but the discovery of new RNA gene sequences far outpaces research on their structure and functional interactions. We mine the evolutionary sequence record to derive precise information about function and…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2016-04-22 Caleb Weinreb , Adam J. Riesselman , John B. Ingraham , Torsten Gross , Chris Sander , Debora S. Marks

In joint entity and relation extraction, existing work either sequentially encode task-specific features, leading to an imbalance in inter-task feature interaction where features extracted later have no direct contact with those that come…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Zhiheng Yan , Chong Zhang , Jinlan Fu , Qi Zhang , Zhongyu Wei

We formulate the RNA folding problem as an $N\times N$ matrix field theory. This matrix formalism allows us to give a systematic classification of the terms in the partition function according to their topological character. The theory is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 H. Orland , A. Zee

Many ncRNAs function through RNA-RNA interactions. Fast and reliable RNA structure prediction with consideration of RNA-RNA interaction is useful. Some existing tools are less accurate due to omitting the competing of intermolecular and…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2022-10-28 He Zhang , Sizhen Li , Liang Zhang , David H. Mathews , Liang Huang

Although both RNA and proteins have densely packed native structures, chain organizations of these two biopolymers are fundamentally different. Motivated by the recent discoveries in chromatin folding that interphase chromosomes have…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-12-28 Lei Liu , Changbong Hyeon

The interaction between Ribonucleic Acids (RNAs) and proteins, also called RNA Protein Interaction (RPI), plays an important role in the life activities of organisms, including in various regulatory processes, such as gene splicing, gene…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2024-10-02 Danyu Li , Rubing Huang , Chenhui Cui , Dave Towey , Ling Zhou , Jinyu Tian , Bin Zou

It is the first step for understanding how RNA structure folds from base sequences that to know how its secondary structure is formed. Traditional energy-based algorithms are short of precision, particularly for non-nested sequences, while…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-18 Ji Jiang , Qipeng Yan , Ye Li , Min Lu , Ziwei Cui , Menghan Dou , Qingchun Wang , Yu-Chun Wu , Guo-Ping Guo

Motivation: RNA design aims to find RNA sequences that fold into a given target secondary structure, a problem also known as RNA inverse folding. However, not all target structures are designable. Recent advances in RNA designability have…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Tianshuo Zhou , David H. Mathews , Liang Huang

Background: RNA exhibits a variety of structural configurations. Here we consider a structure to be tantamount to the noncrossing Watson-Crick and \pairGU-base pairings (secondary structure) and additional cross-serial base pairs. These…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-03-12 James Z. M. Gao , Linda Y. M. Li , Christian M. Reidys

RNA folding is a kinetic process governed by the competition of a large number of structures stabilized by the transient formation of base pairs that may induce complex folding pathways and the formation of misfolded structures. Despite of…

Biological Physics · Physics 2009-03-16 M. Manosas , I. Junier , F. Ritort

We study the statistical mechanics of RNA secondary structures designed to have an attraction between two different types of structures as a model system for heteropolymer aggregation. The competition between the branching entropy of the…

Biological Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Vishwesha Guttal , Ralf Bundschuh

RNA is a fundamental class of biomolecules that mediate a large variety of molecular processes within the cell. Computational algorithms can be of great help in the understanding of RNA structure-function relationship. One of the main…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2015-02-20 Sandro Bottaro , Francesco Di Palma , Giovanni Bussi

A non-linear Penner type interaction is introduced and studied in the random matrix model of homo-RNA. The asymptotics in length of the partition function is discussed for small and large $N$ (size of matrix). The interaction doubles the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-03-30 Itty Garg , Pradeep Bhadola , N. Deo

The intricate network of interactions observed in RNA three-dimensional structures is often described in terms of a multitude of geometrical properties, including helical parameters, base pairing/stacking, hydrogen bonding and backbone…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2015-09-01 Sandro Bottaro , Francesco Di Palma , Giovanni Bussi

The relationship between RNA structure and function has recently attracted interest within the deep learning community, a trend expected to intensify as nucleic acid structure models advance. Despite this momentum, the lack of standardized,…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-10-23 Luis Wyss , Vincent Mallet , Wissam Karroucha , Karsten Borgwardt , Carlos Oliver

Background: RNA exhibits a variety of structural configurations. Here we consider a structure to be tantamount to the noncrossing Watson-Crick and \pairGU-base pairings (secondary structure) and additional cross-serial base pairs. These…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-03-11 James Z. M. Gao , Linda Y. M. Li , Christian M. Reidys