Bioinformatics, Vol 14, 691-699, Copyright © 1998 by Oxford University Press
JE Tabaska, RB Cary, HN Gabow and GD Stormo
MOTIVATION: Recently, we described a Maximum Weighted Matching (MWM) method
for RNA structure prediction. The MWM method is capable of detecting
pseudoknots and other tertiary base-pairing interactions in a
computationally efficient manner (Cary and Stormo, Proceedings of the Third
International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology, pp.
75-80, 1995). Here we report on the results of our efforts to improve the
MWM method's predictive accuracy, and show how the method can be extended
to detect base interactions formerly inaccessible to automated RNA modeling
techniques. RESULTS: Improved performance in MWM structure prediction was
achieved in two ways. First, new ways of calculating base pair likelihoods
have been developed. These allow experimental data and combined statistical
and thermodynamic information to be used by the program. Second, accuracy
was improved by developing techniques for filtering out spurious base pairs
predicted by the MWM program. We also demonstrate here a means by which the
MWM folding method may be used to detect the presence of base triples in
RNAs. AVAILABILITY: http://www.cshl.org/mzhanglab/tabaska/j axpage. html
CONTACT: tabaska@cshl.org
ARTICLES
An RNA folding method capable of identifying pseudoknots and base triples
1Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology and 2Department of Computer Science, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309, USA.
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