Variations on RNA folding and alignment: Lessons from Benasque

  • Athanasius F. Bompfünewerer
  • , Rolf Backofen
  • , Stephan H. Bernhart
  • , Jana Hertel
  • , Ivo L. Hofacker
  • , Peter F. Stadler
  • , Sebastian Will

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Abstract

Dynamic programming algorithms solve many standard problems of RNA bioinformatics in polynomial time. In this contribution we discuss a series of variations on these standard methods that implement refined biophysical models, such as a restriction of RNA folding to canonical structures, and an extension of structural alignments to an explicit scoring of stacking propensities. Furthermore, we demonstrate that a local structural alignment can be employed for ncRNA gene finding. In this context we discuss scanning variants for folding and alignment algorithms.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)129-144
Number of pages16
JournalJournal of Mathematical Biology
Volume56
Issue number1-2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 2008
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Dynamic programming
  • RNA folding
  • Secondary structure alignment

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