• Media type: E-Article
  • Title: SHAPE directed RNA folding
  • Contributor: Lorenz, Ronny; Luntzer, Dominik; Hofacker, Ivo L.; Stadler, Peter F.; Wolfinger, Michael T.
  • imprint: Oxford University Press (OUP), 2016
  • Published in: Bioinformatics
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btv523
  • ISSN: 1367-4811; 1367-4803
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  • Description: <jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>Summary: Chemical mapping experiments allow for nucleotide resolution assessment of RNA structure. We demonstrate that different strategies of integrating probing data with thermodynamics-based RNA secondary structure prediction algorithms can be implemented by means of soft constraints. This amounts to incorporating suitable pseudo-energies into the standard energy model for RNA secondary structures. As a showcase application for this new feature of the ViennaRNA Package we compare three distinct, previously published strategies to utilize SHAPE reactivities for structure prediction. The new tool is benchmarked on a set of RNAs with known reference structure.</jats:p> <jats:p>Availability and implementation: The capability for SHAPE directed RNA folding is part of the upcoming release of the ViennaRNA Package 2.2, for which a preliminary release is already freely available at http://www.tbi.univie.ac.at/RNA.</jats:p> <jats:p>Contact: michael.wolfinger@univie.ac.at</jats:p> <jats:p>Supplementary information:  Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.</jats:p>
  • Access State: Open Access