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Given the importance of non-coding RNAs to cellular regulatory functions and rapid growth of RNA transcripts, computational prediction of RNA tertiary structure remains highly demanded yet significantly challenging. Even for a short RNA…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2014-07-29 Liang Ding , Xingran Xue , Sal LaMarca , Mohammad Mohebbi , Abdul Samad , Russell L. Malmberg , Liming Cai

We enumerate the number of RNA contact structures according to their genus, i.e. the topological character of their pseudoknots. By using a recently proposed matrix model formulation for the RNA folding problem, we obtain exact results for…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2009-11-10 G. Vernizzi , H. Orland , A. Zee

Non-coding RNA structure and function are essential to understanding various biological processes, such as cell signaling, gene expression, and post-transcriptional regulations. These are all among the core problems in the RNA field. With…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2022-08-09 Jiayang Chen , Zhihang Hu , Siqi Sun , Qingxiong Tan , Yixuan Wang , Qinze Yu , Licheng Zong , Liang Hong , Jin Xiao , Tao Shen , Irwin King , Yu Li

We present a thermodynamically robust coarse-grained model to simulate folding of RNA in monovalent salt solutions. The model includes stacking, hydrogen bond and electrostatic interactions as fundamental components in describing the…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2013-04-16 Natalia A. Denesyuk , D. Thirumalai

To bridge the gap between the sequences and 3-dimensional (3D) structures of RNAs, some computational models have been proposed for predicting RNA 3D structures. However, the existed models seldom consider the conditions departing from the…

Biological Physics · Physics 2014-09-12 Ya-Zhou Shi , Feng-Hua Wang , Yuan-Yan Wu , Zhi-Jie Tan

Ab initio RNA secondary structure predictions have long dismissed helices interior to loops, so-called pseudoknots, despite their structural importance. Here, we report that many pseudoknots can be predicted through long time scales RNA…

Biological Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Xayaphoummine , T. Bucher , F. Thalmann , H. Isambert

RNA function crucially depends on its structure. Thermodynamic models currently used for secondary structure prediction rely on computing the partition function of folding ensembles, and can thus estimate minimum free-energy structures and…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2022-07-26 Nicola Calonaci , Alisha Jones , Francesca Cuturello , Michael Sattler , Giovanni Bussi

Recently several minimum free energy (MFE) folding algorithms for predicting the joint structure of two interacting RNA molecules have been proposed. Their folding targets are interaction structures, that can be represented as diagrams with…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-06-22 Thomas J. X. Li , Christian M. Reidys

Understanding the connection between complex structural features of RNA and biological function is a fundamental challenge in evolutionary studies and in RNA design. However, building datasets of RNA 3D structures and making appropriate…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-05-06 Carlos Oliver , Vincent Mallet , Jérôme Waldispühl

Atomically detailed simulations of RNA folding have proven very challenging in view of the difficulties of developing realistic force fields and the intrinsic computational complexity of sampling rare conformational transitions. To tackle…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-05-26 Gianmarco Lazzeri , Cristian Micheletti , Samuela Pasquali , Pietro Faccioli

Proteins naturally occur in crowded cellular environments and interact with other proteins, nucleic acids, and organelles. Since most previous experimental protein structure determination techniques require that proteins occur in idealized,…

Biological Physics · Physics 2025-08-14 Zhuoyi Liu , Alex T. Grigas , Jacob Sumner , Edward Knab , Caitlin M. Davis , Corey S. O'Hern

The Nearest Neighbor model is the $\textit{de facto}$ thermodynamic model of RNA secondary structure formation and is a cornerstone of RNA structure prediction and sequence design. The current functional form (Turner 2004) contains…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-05-13 Ryan K. Krueger , Sharon Aviran , David H. Mathews , Jeffrey Zuber , Max Ward

We present FLOWR.root, an SE(3)-equivariant flow-matching model for pocket-aware 3D ligand generation with joint potency and binding affinity prediction and confidence estimation. The model supports de novo generation, interaction- and…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2026-03-26 Julian Cremer , Tuan Le , Mohammad M. Ghahremanpour , Emilia Sługocka , Filipe Menezes , Djork-Arné Clevert

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

Predicting the secondary structure of RNA is a core challenge in computational biology, essential for understanding molecular function and designing novel therapeutics. The field has evolved from foundational but accuracy-limited…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2026-05-20 Giuseppe Sacco , Giovanni Bussi , Guido Sanguinetti

In a recent paper Siegfried et al. published a new sequence-based structural RNA assay that utilizes mutational profiling to detect base pairing (MaP). Output from MaP provides information about both pairing (via reactivities) and contact…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2014-12-12 Akshay Tambe , Jennifer Doudna , Lior Pachter

Recent genome and transcriptome sequencing projects have unveiled a plethora of highly structured RNA molecules as central mediators of cellular function. Single molecule Forster Resonance Energy Transfer (smFRET) is a powerful tool for…

Ribonucleic acid (RNA) binds to molecules to achieve specific biological functions. While generative models are advancing biomolecule design, existing methods for designing RNA that target specific ligands face limitations in capturing…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-10-14 Runze Ma , Zhongyue Zhang , Zichen Wang , Chenqing Hua , Jiahua Rao , Zhuomin Zhou , Shuangjia Zheng

Many computerized methods for RNA-RNA interaction structure prediction have been developed. Recently, $O(N^6)$ time and $O(N^4)$ space dynamic programming algorithms have become available that compute the partition function of RNA-RNA…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2010-07-15 Andrew X. Li , Manja Marz , Jing Qin , Christian M. Reidys

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