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ArticleBioinformatics (Oxford, England)2011

IPknot: fast and accurate prediction of RNA secondary structures with pseudoknots using integer programming.

Kengo Sato, Yuki Kato, Michiaki Hamada, Tatsuya Akutsu, Kiyoshi Asai

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Kengo SatoGraduate School of Frontier Sciences, University of Tokyo, 5-1-5 Kashiwanoha, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8561, Japan. satoken@k.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Yuki Kato
Michiaki Hamada
Tatsuya Akutsu
Kiyoshi Asai

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motivationPseudoknots found in secondary structures of a number of functional RNAs play various roles in biological processes. Recent methods for predicting RNA secondary structures cover certain classes of pseudoknotted structures, but only a few of them achieve satisfying predictions in terms of both speed and accuracy.

resultsWe propose IPknot, a novel computational method for predicting RNA secondary structures with pseudoknots based on maximizing expected accuracy of a predicted structure. IPknot decomposes a pseudoknotted structure into a set of pseudoknot-free substructures and approximates a base-pairing probability distribution that considers pseudoknots, leading to the capability of modeling a wide class of pseudoknots and running quite fast. In addition, we propose a heuristic algorithm for refining base-paring probabilities to improve the prediction accuracy of IPknot. The problem of maximizing expected accuracy is solved by using integer programming with threshold cut. We also extend IPknot so that it can predict the consensus secondary structure with pseudoknots when a multiple sequence alignment is given. IPknot is validated through extensive experiments on various datasets, showing that IPknot achieves better prediction accuracy and faster running time as compared with several competitive prediction methods. AVAILABILITY: The program of IPknot is available at http://www.ncrna.org/software/ipknot/. IPknot is also available as a web server at http://rna.naist.jp/ipknot/. CONTACT: satoken@k.u-tokyo.ac.jp; ykato@is.naist.jp SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.

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Nucleic Acid ConformationSoftwareAlgorithmsRNASequence Analysis, RNARNA

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PMCPMC3117384

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