RNA-RNA interaction prediction based on multiple sequence alignments

Details RNA-RNA interaction prediction based on multiple sequence alignments RNA-RNA interaction prediction based on multiple sequence alignments

2010-03-21

arxiv.org/abs/1003.3987v3

Physics

Mathematical Physics

8 pages, 9 figures

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Many computerized methods for RNA-RNA interaction structure prediction have been developed. Recently, $O(N^6)$ time and $O(N^4)$ space dynamic programming algorithms have become available that compute the partition function of RNA-RNA interaction complexes. However, few of these methods incorporate the knowledge concerning related sequences, thus relevant evolutionary information is often neglected from the structure determination. Therefore, it is of considerable practical interest to introduce a method taking into consideration both thermodynamic stability and sequence covariation. We present the \emph{a priori} folding algorithm \texttt{ripalign}, whose input consists of two (given) multiple sequence alignments (MSA). \texttt{ripalign} outputs (1) the partition function, (2) base-pairing probabilities, (3) hybrid probabilities and (4) a set of Boltzmann-sampled suboptimal structures consisting of canonical joint structures that are compatible to the alignments. Compared to the single sequence-pair folding algorithm \texttt{rip}, \texttt{ripalign} requires negligible additional memory resource. Furthermore, we incorporate possible structure constraints as input parameters into our algorithm. The algorithm described here is implemented in C as part of the \texttt{rip} package. The supplemental material, source code and input/output files can freely be downloaded from \url{http://www.combinatorics.cn/cbpc/ripalign.html}. \section{Contact} Christian Reidys \texttt{duck@santafe.edu}

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