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Given usefulness of protein language models (LMs) in structure and functional inference, RNA LMs have received increased attentions in the last few years. However, these RNA models are often not compared against the same standard. Here, we…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-05-15 He Wang , Yikun Zhang , Jie Chen , Jian Zhan , Yaoqi Zhou

The structure of a protein is crucial in determining its functionality, and is much more conserved than sequence during evolution. A key task in structural biology is to compare protein structures in order to determine evolutionary…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-11-06 Christopher Fallaize , Peter Green , Kanti Mardia , Stuart Barber

Despite the biological importance of non-coding RNA, their structural characterization remains challenging. Making use of the rapidly growing sequence databases, we analyze nucleotide coevolution across homologous sequences via…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2015-10-13 Eleonora De Leonardis , Benjamin Lutz , Sebastian Ratz , Simona Cocco , Remi Monasson , Alexander Schug , Martin Weigt

Predicting protein secondary structures such as alpha helices, beta sheets, and coils from amino acid sequences is essential for understanding protein function. This work presents a transformer-based model that applies attention mechanisms…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Manzi Kevin Maxime

In this study, we tackle the challenging task of predicting secondary structures from protein primary sequences, a pivotal initial stride towards predicting tertiary structures, while yielding crucial insights into protein activity,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Disha Varshney , Samarth Garg , Sarthak Tyagi , Deeksha Varshney , Nayan Deep , Asif Ekbal

RNA function is tied to secondary structure, operating through dynamic and heterogeneous structural ensembles. While current analysis tools typically output single static structures or averaged contact maps, chemical probing methods like…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2026-05-20 Giuseppe Sacco , Jianhui Li , Redmond P. Smyth , Guido Sanguinetti , Giovanni Bussi

RNA secondary structure folding kinetics is known to be important for the biological function of certain processes, such as the hok/sok system in E. coli. Although linear algebra provides an exact computational solution of secondary…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2017-07-14 Peter Clote , Amir H. Bayegan

The prevalent method for RNA secondary structure prediction for a single sequence is free energy minimization based on the nearest neighbor thermodynamic model (NNTM). One of the least well-developed parts of the model is the energy…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2017-08-21 Fidel Barrera-Cruz , Christine Heitsch , Svetlana Poznanović

We present a general setting for structure-sequence comparison in a large class of RNA structures that unifies and generalizes a number of recent works on specific families on structures. Our approach is based on tree decomposition of…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2012-06-21 Philippe Rinaudo , Yann Ponty , Dominique Barth , Alain Denise

A new statistical method of alignment of two heteropolymers which can form hierarchical cloverleaf-like secondary structures is proposed. This offers a new constructive algorithm for quantitative determination of binding free energy of two…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2010-11-12 S. K. Nechaev , M. V. Tamm , O. V. Valba

Proteins are essential for life, and their structure determines their function. The protein secondary structure is formed by the folding of the protein primary structure, and the protein tertiary structure is formed by the bending and…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-03-11 Yanlin Zhou , Kai Tan , Xinyu Shen , Zheng He , Haotian Zheng

Recently developed deep learning techniques have significantly improved the accuracy of various speech and image recognition systems. In this paper we adapt some of these techniques for protein secondary structure prediction. We first train…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-11-07 Akosua Busia , Jasmine Collins , Navdeep Jaitly

Is protein secondary structure primarily determined by local interactions between residues closely spaced along the amino acid backbone, or by non-local tertiary interactions? To answer this question we have measured the entropy densities…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2007-05-23 Gavin E. Crooks , Steven E. Brenner

The field of RNA secondary structure prediction has made significant progress with the adoption of deep learning techniques. In this work, we present the RNAformer, a lean deep learning model using axial attention and recycling in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Jörg K. H. Franke , Frederic Runge , Frank Hutter

Background: One-dimensional protein structures such as secondary structures or contact numbers are useful for three-dimensional structure prediction and helpful for intuitive understanding of the sequence-structure relationship. Accurate…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2007-07-09 Akira R. Kinjo , Ken Nishikawa

RNA molecules are known to form complex secondary structures including pseudoknots. A systematic framework for the enumeration, classification and prediction of secondary structures is critical to determine the biological significance of…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-12-24 Rayan Ibrahim , Allison H. Moore

Prior results for tRNA and 5S rRNA demonstrated that secondary structure prediction accuracy can be significantly improved by modifying the parameters in the multibranch loop entropic penalty function. However, for reasons not well…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-03-28 Svetlana Poznanović , Owen Cardwell , Christine Heitsch

We describe an algorithm for comparing two RNA secondary structures coded in the form of trees that introduces two new operations, called node fusion and edge fusion, besides the tree edit operations of deletion, insertion, and relabeling…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2008-10-23 Julien Allali , Marie-France Sagot

The analysis of the three-dimensional structure of proteins is an important topic in molecular biochemistry. Structure plays a critical role in defining the function of proteins and is more strongly conserved than amino acid sequence over…

Applications · Statistics 2015-01-19 Abel Rodriguez , Scott C. Schmidler

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