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While artificial intelligence has made remarkable strides in revealing the relationship between biological macromolecules' primary sequence and tertiary structure, designing RNA sequences based on specified tertiary structures remains…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-03-08 Cheng Tan , Yijie Zhang , Zhangyang Gao , Bozhen Hu , Siyuan Li , Zicheng Liu , Stan Z. Li

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

RNA secondary structures prediction is one of the main issues in bioinformatics. It seeks to elucidate structural conserved regions within a set of RNA sequences. Unfortunately, finding an accurate conserved structure is a very hard task to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-02-07 Abdesslem Layeb , Amira Boudra , Wissem Korichi , Salim Chikhi

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

Combinatorial analysis of a certain abstract of RNA structures has been studied to investigate their statistics. Our approach regards the backbone of secondary structures as an alternate sequence of paired and unpaired sets of nucleotides,…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2020-03-10 Sang Kwan Choi , Chaiho Rim , Hwajin Um

Metrics for indirectly predicting the folding rates of RNA sequences are of interest. In this letter, we introduce a simple metric of RNA structural complexity, which accounts for differences in the energetic contributions of RNA base…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2009-08-17 Asamoah Nkwanta , Wilfred Ndifon

Structured RNA plays many functionally relevant roles in molecular life. Structural information, while required to understand the functional cycles in detail, is challenging to gather. Computational methods promise to complement…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2019-04-16 Fabrizio Pucci , Alexander Schug

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

Predicting protein secondary structure is a fundamental problem in protein structure prediction. Here we present a new supervised generative stochastic network (GSN) based method to predict local secondary structure with deep hierarchical…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2014-03-07 Jian Zhou , Olga G. Troyanskaya

Our world is ambiguous and this is reflected in the data we use to train our algorithms. This is particularly true when we try to model natural processes where collected data is affected by noisy measurements and differences in measurement…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Jörg K. H. Franke , Frederic Runge , Frank Hutter

Our work is concerned with the generation and targeted design of RNA, a type of genetic macromolecule that can adopt complex structures which influence their cellular activities and functions. The design of large scale and complex…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2021-02-02 Zichao Yan , William L. Hamilton , Mathieu Blanchette

RNA, whose functionality is largely determined by its structure, plays an important role in many biological activities. The prediction of pairwise structural proximity between each nucleotide of an RNA sequence can characterize the…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2024-01-22 Yiren Jian , Chongyang Gao , Chen Zeng , Yunjie Zhao , Soroush Vosoughi

We introduce second-order vector representations of words, induced from nearest neighborhood topological features in pre-trained contextual word embeddings. We then analyze the effects of using second-order embeddings as input features in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-05-25 Denis Newman-Griffis , Eric Fosler-Lussier

The task of RNA design given a target structure aims to find a sequence that can fold into that structure. It is a computationally hard problem where some version(s) have been proven to be NP-hard. As a result, heuristic methods such as…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-12-13 Wei Yu Tang , Ning Dai , Tianshuo Zhou , David H. Mathews , Liang Huang

The statistical mechanics of heteropolymer structure formation is studied in the context of RNA secondary structures. A designed RNA sequence biased energetically towards a particular native structure (a hairpin) is used to study the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 R. Bundschuh , T. Hwa

Background: In the Nearest-Neighbor Thermodynamic Model, a standard approach for RNA secondary structure prediction, the energy of the multiloops is modeled using a linear entropic penalty governed by three branching parameters. Although…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-10-15 Svetlana Poznanović , Owen Cardwell , Christine Heitsch

The structure of an RNA molecule plays a significant role in its biological function. Predicting structure given a one dimensional sequence of RNA nucleotide bases is a difficult and important problem. Many computer programs (known as in…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2021-06-15 Mark W. Lewis , Amit Verma , Rick Hennig

The idea of this project is to study the protein structure and sequence relationship using the hidden markov model and artificial neural network. In this context we have assumed two hidden markov models. In first model we have taken protein…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-06-18 Saurabh Sarkar , Prateek Malhotra , Virender Guman

Prediction of protein secondary structure from the amino acid sequence is a classical bioinformatics problem. Common methods use feed forward neural networks or SVMs combined with a sliding window, as these models does not naturally handle…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2015-01-06 Søren Kaae Sønderby , Ole Winther

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…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-02-08 He Zhang , Liang Zhang , David H. Mathews , Liang Huang