Abstract: Using the fast Fourier transform to accelerate the computational search for RNA conformational switches

  • Evan Senter
  • , Saad Sheikh
  • , Ivan Dotu
  • , Yann Ponty
  • , Peter Clote

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Abstract

We describe the broad outline of a new thermodynamics-based algorithm, FFTbor, that uses the fast Fourier transform to perform polynomial interpolation to compute the Boltzmann probability that secondary structures differ by k base pairs from an arbitrary reference structure of a given RNA sequence. The algorithm, which runs in quartic time O(n4) and quadratic space O(n2), is used to determine the correlation between kinetic folding speed and the ruggedness of the energy landscape, and to predict the location of riboswitch expression platform candidates. The full paper appears in PLoS ONE (2012) 19 Dec 2012. A web server is available at http://bioinformatics.bc.edu/ clotelab/FFTbor/.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationResearch in Computational Molecular Biology - 17th Annual International Conference, RECOMB 2013, Proceedings
Pages264-265
Number of pages2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 3 Apr 2013
Event17th Annual International Conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology, RECOMB 2013 - Beijing, China
Duration: 7 Apr 201310 Apr 2013

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume7821 LNBI
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference17th Annual International Conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology, RECOMB 2013
Country/TerritoryChina
CityBeijing
Period7/04/1310/04/13

Keywords

  • Lagrange interpolation
  • RNA secondary structure
  • fast Fourier transform
  • partition function

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