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BMCBI
2010
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Prediction of RNA secondary structure by maximizing pseudo-expected accuracy
Background: Recent studies have revealed the importance of considering the entire distribution of possible secondary structures in RNA secondary structure predictions; therefore, ...
Michiaki Hamada, Kengo Sato, Kiyoshi Asai
JCB
2007
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A Dynamic Programming Approach for Finding Common Patterns in RNAs
We developed a dynamic programming approach of computing common sequence structure patterns among two RNAs given their primary sequences and their secondary structures. Common pat...
Sven Siebert, Rolf Backofen
BMCBI
2006
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CRNPRED: highly accurate prediction of one-dimensional protein structures by large-scale critical random networks
Background: One-dimensional protein structures such as secondary structures or contact numbers are useful for three-dimensional structure prediction and helpful for intuitive unde...
Akira R. Kinjo, Ken Nishikawa
BMCBI
2007
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MiRFinder: an improved approach and software implementation for genome-wide fast microRNA precursor scans
Background: MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are recognized as one of the most important families of noncoding RNAs that serve as important sequence-specific post-transcriptional regulators of ...
Ting-Hua Huang, Bin Fan, Max F. Rothschild, Zhi-Li...
BMCBI
2008
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Shape based indexing for faster search of RNA family databases
Background: Most non-coding RNA families exert their function by means of a conserved, common secondary structure. The Rfam data base contains more than five hundred structurally ...
Stefan Janssen, Jens Reeder, Robert Giegerich
BMCBI
2008
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RNA STRAND: The RNA Secondary Structure and Statistical Analysis Database
Background: The ability to access, search and analyse secondary structures of a large set of known RNA molecules is very important for deriving improved RNA energy models, for eva...
Mirela Andronescu, Vera Bereg, Holger H. Hoos, Ann...
BMCBI
2008
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Directed acyclic graph kernels for structural RNA analysis
Background: Recent discoveries of a large variety of important roles for non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs) have been reported by numerous researchers. In order to analyze ncRNAs by kernel ...
Kengo Sato, Toutai Mituyama, Kiyoshi Asai, Yasubum...
BMCBI
2007
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RNAspa: a shortest path approach for comparative prediction of the secondary structure of ncRNA molecules
Background: In recent years, RNA molecules that are not translated into proteins (ncRNAs) have drawn a great deal of attention, as they were shown to be involved in many cellular ...
Yair Horesh, Tirza Doniger, Shulamit Michaeli, Ron...
BMCBI
2010
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Hybridization thermodynamics of NimbleGen Microarrays
Background: While microarrays are the predominant method for gene expression profiling, probe signal variation is still an area of active research. Probe signal is sequence depend...
Ulrike Mückstein, Germán G. Leparc, Al...
3DPVT
2002
IEEE
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Analysis of Secondary Structure Elements of Proteins Using Indexing Techniques
In this paper we present a method for protein structure comparison that is based on indexing. Unlike most methods using indexing, ours does not use invariants of the C atoms of th...
Concettina Guerra, Stefano Lonardi, Giuseppe Zanot...