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RNA secondary structure is an important computational model to understand how genetic variation maps into phenotypic (structural) variation. Evolutionary innovation in RNA structures is facilitated by neutral networks, large connected sets…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2008-01-22 Sumedha , Olivier C Martin , Andreas Wagner

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

In this contribution, we demonstrate that Graph Neural Networks and Transformers can learn to reason about geometric constraints. We train them to predict spatial position of points in a discrete 2D grid from a set of constraints that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Jan Hůla , David Mojžíšek , Jiří Janeček , David Herel , Mikoláš Janota

We introduce a novel fully convolutional neural network (FCN) architecture for predicting the secondary structure of ribonucleic acid (RNA) molecules. Interpreting RNA structures as weighted graphs, we employ deep learning to estimate the…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-06-07 Marc Harary , Chengxin Zhang

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

In this paper, we study the combinatorial set of RNA secondary structures of length $n$ with $m$ base-pairs. For a compact representation, we encode an RNA secondary structure by the corresponding Motzkin word. For this combinatorial set,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-01-30 Yuriy Shablya , Dmitry Kruchinin

RNA folding prediction remains challenging, but can be also studied using a topological mathematical approach. In the present paper, the mathematical method to compute the topological classification of RNA structures and based on matrix…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-08-11 Nicolò Cangiotti , Stefano Grasso

Foreign key discovery and related schema-level prediction tasks are often modeled using graph neural networks (GNNs), implicitly assuming that relational inductive bias improves performance. However, it remains unclear when multi-hop…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Aadi Joshi , Kavya Bhand

We present TT2NE, a new algorithm to predict RNA secondary structures with pseudoknots. The method is based on a classification of RNA structures according to their topological genus. TT2NE guarantees to find the minimum free energy…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2010-10-22 Michael Bon , Henri Orland

Artificial and biological neural networks (ANNs and BNNs) can encode inputs in the form of combinations of individual neurons' activities. These combinatorial neural codes present a computational challenge for direct and efficient analysis…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Thomas F Burns , Irwansyah

Single-nucleotide-resolution chemical mapping for structured RNA is being rapidly advanced by new chemistries, faster readouts, and coupling to computational algorithms. Recent tests have shown that selective 2'-hydroxyl acylation by primer…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2011-09-08 Wipapat Kladwang , Christopher C. VanLang , Pablo Cordero , Rhiju Das

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 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

An RNA sequence is a word over an alphabet on four elements $\{A,C,G,U\}$ called bases. RNA sequences fold into secondary structures where some bases match one another while others remain unpaired. Pseudoknot-free secondary structures can…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Édouard Bonnet , Paweł Rzążewski , Florian Sikora

Dual graphs have been applied to model RNA secondary structures with pseudoknots, or intertwined base pairs. In previous works, a linear-time algorithm was introduced to partition dual graphs into maximally connected components called…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2021-09-09 Louis Petingi

RNA secondary structure prediction and classification are two important problems in the field of RNA biology. Here, we propose a new permutation based approach to create logical non-disjoint clusters of different secondary structures of a…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2014-03-24 Nilay Chheda , Manish K Gupta

Modern neural network architectures typically have many millions of parameters and can be pruned significantly without substantial loss in effectiveness which demonstrates they are over-parameterized. The contribution of this work is…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-03-09 Yaniv Shulman

We describe a dynamic programming algorithm for predicting optimal RNA secondary structure, including pseudoknots. The algorithm has a worst case complexity of ${\cal O}(N^6)$ in time and ${\cal O}(N^4)$ in storage. The description of the…

Biological Physics · Physics 2009-09-25 Elena Rivas , Sean R. Eddy

The extent to which different neural or artificial neural networks (models) rely on equivalent representations to support similar tasks remains a central question in neuroscience and machine learning. Prior work has typically compared…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2026-04-06 Jialin Wu , Shreya Saha , Yiqing Bo , Meenakshi Khosla

In recent years, with the rapid development of computer information technology, the development of artificial intelligence has been accelerating. The traditional geometry recognition technology is relatively backward and the recognition…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Ruiyang Wang , Haonan Wang , Junfeng Sun , Mingjia Zhao , Meng Liu