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We extend an hypergraph representation, introduced by Finkelstein and Roytberg, to unify dynamic programming algorithms in the context of RNA folding with pseudoknots. Classic applications of RNA dynamic programming energy minimization,…

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No existing algorithm can start with arbitrary RNA sequences and return the precise, three-dimensional structures that ensures their biological function. This chapter outlines current algorithms for automated RNA structure prediction…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2011-03-17 Kyle Beauchamp , Parin Sripakdeevong , Rhiju Das

It is a classical result of Stein and Waterman that the asymptotic number of RNA secondary structures is $1.104366 \cdot n^{-3/2} \cdot 2.618034^n$. Motivated by the kinetics of RNA secondary structure formation, we are interested in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-01-01 Éric Fusy , Peter Clote

Accurate prediction of RNA secondary structure underpins transcriptome annotation, mechanistic analysis of non-coding RNAs, and RNA therapeutic design. Recent gains from deep learning and RNA foundation models are difficult to interpret…

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The growing significance of RNA engineering in diverse biological applications has spurred interest in developing AI methods for structure-based RNA design. While diffusion models have excelled in protein design, adapting them for RNA…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-06-11 Divya Nori , Wengong Jin

RNA forms elaborate secondary structures through intramolecular base pairing. These structures perform critical biological functions within each cell. Due to the availability of a polynomial algorithm to calculate the partition function…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2019-03-04 William D. Baez , Kay Jörg Wiese , Ralf Bundschuh

We study the complexity of the problem of searching for a set of patterns that separate two given sets of strings. This problem has applications in a wide variety of areas, most notably in data mining, computational biology, and in…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-12-20 Giuseppe Lancia , Luke Mathieson , Pablo Moscato

In this paper we present a selfcontained analysis and description of the novel {\it ab initio} folding algorithm {\sf cross}, which generates the minimum free energy (mfe), 3-noncrossing, $\sigma$-canonical RNA structure. Here an RNA…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2008-09-30 Fenix W. D. Huang , Wade W. J. Peng , Christian M. Reidys

We consider Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) with 2D structured features that are symmetric in the spatial dimensions. Such networks arise in modeling pairwise relationships for a sequential recommendation problem, as well as secondary…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-03-07 Kehelwala Dewage Gayan Maduranga , Vasily Zadorozhnyy , Qiang Ye

RNA design shows growing applications in synthetic biology and therapeutics, driven by the crucial role of RNA in various biological processes. A fundamental challenge is to find functional RNA sequences that satisfy given structural…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-04-18 Han Huang , Ziqian Lin , Dongchen He , Liang Hong , Yu Li

Arc-annotated sequences are useful for representing structural information of RNAs and have been extensively used for comparing RNA structures in both terms of sequence and structural similarities. Among the many paradigms referring to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2008-12-23 Guillaume Blin , Sylvie Hamel , Stéphane Vialette

A fundamental algorithmic problem in computational biology is to find all subgraphs of a given type (superbubbles, snarls, and ultrabubbles) in a directed or bidirected input graph. These correspond to regions of genetic variation and are…

Each human genome is a 3 billion base pair set of encoding instructions. Decoding the genome using deep learning fundamentally differs from most tasks, as we do not know the full structure of the data and therefore cannot design…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-05-24 Laura Deming , Sasha Targ , Nate Sauder , Diogo Almeida , Chun Jimmie Ye

We discuss the physics of RNA as described by its secondary structure. We examine the static properties of a homogeneous RNA-model that includes pairing and base stacking energies as well as entropic costs for internal loops. For large…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Mueller

RNA secondary structure prediction is widely used to understand RNA function. Recently, there has been a shift away from the classical minimum free energy (MFE) methods to partition function-based methods that account for folding ensembles…

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The tertiary structures of functional RNA molecules remain difficult to decipher. A new generation of automated RNA structure prediction methods may help address these challenges but have not yet been experimentally validated. Here we apply…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2011-10-05 Wipapat Kladwang , Fang-Chieh Chou , Rhiju Das

We propose a new deterministic methodology to predict RNA sequence and protein folding. Is stem enough for structure prediction? The main idea is to consider all possible stem formation in the given sequence. With the stem loop energy and…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Mengyi Tang , Kumbit Hwang , Sung Ha Kang

Background: We study the sparsification of dynamic programming folding algorithms of RNA structures. Sparsification applies to the mfe-folding of RNA structures and can lead to a significant reduction of time complexity. Results: We analyze…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-02-07 Fenix W. D. Huang , Christian M. Reidys

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

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