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We view the folding of RNA-sequences as a map that assigns a pattern of base pairings to each sequence, known as secondary structure. These preimages can be constructed as random graphs (i.e. the neutral networks associated to the structure…

adap-org · Physics 2008-02-03 Christian V. Forst , Christian Reidys , Jacqueline Weber

We consider the inverse-folding problem for RNA secondary structures: for a given (pseudo-knot-free) secondary structure find a sequence that has that structure as its ground state. If such a sequence exists, the structure is called…

Biological Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Bernd Burghardt , Alexander K. Hartmann

In this paper we study $k$-noncrossing, canonical RNA pseudoknot structures with minimum arc-length $\ge 4$. Let ${\sf T}_{k,\sigma}^{[4]} (n)$ denote the number of these structures. We derive exact enumeration results by computing the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2008-06-17 Gang Ma , Christian M. Reidys

RNA molecules are single-stranded analogues of DNA that can fold into various structures which influence their biological function within the cell. RNA structures can be modelled combinatorially in terms of a certain type of graph called an…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-04-14 Vincent Moulton , Taoyang Wu

Context-free and context-sensitive formal grammars are often regarded as more appropriate to model proteins than regular level models such as finite state automata and Hidden Markov Models. In theory, the claim is well founded in the fact…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-30 Witold Dyrka , François Coste , Olgierd Unold , Łukasz Culer , Agnieszka Kaczmarek

Models for RNA secondary structures (the topology of folded RNA) without pseudo knots are disordered systems with a complex state-space below a critical temperature. Hence, a complex dynamical (glassy) behavior can be expected, when…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2008-02-02 S. Wolfsheimer , B. Burghardt , A. Mann , A. K. Hartmann

Natural language understanding (NLU) is a core component of a spoken dialogue system. Recently recurrent neural networks (RNN) obtained strong results on NLU due to their superior ability of preserving sequential information over time.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-09-13 Yun-Nung Chen , Dilek Hakkani-Tur , Gokhan Tur , Asli Celikyilmaz , Jianfeng Gao , Li Deng

We introduce a new, simplified model of proteins, which we call protein metastructure. The metastructure of a protein carries information about its secondary structure and $\beta$-strand conformations. Furthermore, protein metastructure…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2021-11-30 Jørgen Ellegaard Andersen , Hiroyuki Fuji , Yuki Koyanagi

In this paper we enumerate $k$-noncrossing RNA pseudoknot structures with given minimum stack-length. We show that the numbers of $k$-noncrossing structures without isolated base pairs are significantly smaller than the number of all…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2007-12-04 Emma Y. Jin , Christian M. Reidys

The combinatorics of RNA plays a central role in biology. Mathematical biologists have several commonly-used models for RNA: words in a fixed alphabet (representing the primary sequence of nucleotides) and plane trees (representing the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-06-23 Frances Black , Elizabeth Drellich , Julianna Tymoczko

We propose a new approach for modelling the process of RNA folding as a graph transformation guided by the global value of free energy. Since the folding process evolves towards a configuration in which the free energy is minimal, the…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2016-12-07 Adane Letta Mamuye , Emanuela Merelli , Luca Tesei

We present LemmaTag, a featureless neural network architecture that jointly generates part-of-speech tags and lemmas for sentences by using bidirectional RNNs with character-level and word-level embeddings. We demonstrate that both tasks…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-28 Daniel Kondratyuk , Tomáš Gavenčiak , Milan Straka , Jan Hajič

In this paper we consider the problem of RNA folding with pseudoknots. We use a graphical representation in which the secondary structures are described by planar diagrams. Pseudoknots are identified as non-planar diagrams. We analyze the…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2007-05-23 G. Vernizzi , H. Orland , A. Zee

In this paper we study $k$-noncrossing RNA structures with minimum arc-length 4 and at most $k-1$ mutually crossing bonds. Let ${\sf T}_{k}^{[4]}(n)$ denote the number of $k$-noncrossing RNA structures with arc-length $\ge 4$ over $n$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2008-07-04 Hillary S. W. Han , Christian M. Reidys

Learning hierarchical structures in sequential data -- from simple algorithmic patterns to natural language -- in a reliable, generalizable way remains a challenging problem for neural language models. Past work has shown that recurrent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Brian DuSell , David Chiang

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

Conformational entropy for atomic-level, three dimensional biomolecules is known experimentally to play an important role in protein-ligand discrimination, yet reliable computation of entropy remains a difficult problem. Here we describe…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2016-02-17 Juan Antonio Garcia-Martin , Peter Clote

Accurate prediction of RNA properties, such as stability and interactions, is crucial for advancing our understanding of biological processes and developing RNA-based therapeutics. RNA structures can be represented as 1D sequences, 2D…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-04-22 Junjie Xu , Artem Moskalev , Tommaso Mansi , Mangal Prakash , Rui Liao

Accurate RNA structure modeling remains difficult because RNA backbones are highly flexible, non-canonical interactions are prevalent, and experimentally determined 3D structures are comparatively scarce. We introduce \emph{RiboSphere}, a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Zhou Zhang , Hanqun Cao , Cheng Tan , Fang Wu , Pheng Ann Heng , Tianfan Fu

Language models are typically applied at the sentence level, without access to the broader document context. We present a neural language model that incorporates document context in the form of a topic model-like architecture, thus…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-10-16 Jey Han Lau , Timothy Baldwin , Trevor Cohn