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BIOCOMP
2009
13 years 7 months ago
Consensus RNA Secondary Structure Prediction by Ranking k-Length Stems
The accurate computational prediction of RNA secondary structures is a difficult task, but an important one, since RNA structure is usually more evolutionarily conserved than prima...
Denise Y. F. Mak, Gary Benson
BMCBI
2008
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ConStruct: Improved construction of RNA consensus structures
Background: Aligning homologous non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs) correctly in terms of sequence and structure is an unresolved problem, due to both mathematical complexity and imperfect s...
Andreas Wilm, Kornelia Linnenbrink, Gerhard Steger
BMCBI
2006
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Identification of consensus RNA secondary structures using suffix arrays
Background: The identification of a consensus RNA motif often consists in finding a conserved secondary structure with minimum free energy in an ensemble of aligned sequences. How...
Mohammad Anwar, Truong Nguyen, Marcel Turcotte
BMCBI
2008
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Bioinformatic analyses of mammalian 5'-UTR sequence properties of mRNAs predicts alternative translation initiation sites
Background: Utilization of alternative initiation sites for protein translation directed by non-AUG codons in mammalian mRNAs is observed with increasing frequency. Alternative in...
Jill L. Wegrzyn, Thomas M. Drudge, Faramarz Valafa...
BIOCOMP
2006
13 years 7 months ago
An Approach to Selecting Putative RNA Motifs Using MDL Principle
The history of molecular biology is punctuated by a series of discoveries demonstrating the surprising breadth of biological roles of ribonucleic acid (RNA). An ensemble of evoluti...
Mohammad Anwar, Marcel Turcotte