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ArticleNucleic acids research2016

A novel method for the identification of conserved structural patterns in RNA: From small scale to high-throughput applications.

Marco Pietrosanto, Eugenio Mattei, Manuela Helmer-Citterich, Fabrizio Ferrè

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Article in Nucleic acids research, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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  11. BEAM web server: a tool for structural RNA motif discovery.Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) · 2018
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4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Marco PietrosantoCentre for Molecular Bioinformatics, Department of Biology, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Via della Ricerca Scientifica snc, 00133 Rome, Italy.
Eugenio MatteiCentre for Molecular Bioinformatics, Department of Biology, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Via della Ricerca Scientifica snc, 00133 Rome, Italy.
Manuela Helmer-CitterichCentre for Molecular Bioinformatics, Department of Biology, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Via della Ricerca Scientifica snc, 00133 Rome, Italy citterich@uniroma2.it.
Fabrizio FerrèDepartment of Pharmacy and Biotechnology (FaBiT), University of Bologna Alma Mater, Via Belmeloro 8/2, 40126 Bologna, Italy.
University of Rome Tor Vergata · ITUniversity of Bologna · IT

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Functional RNA regions are often related to recurrent secondary structure patterns (or motifs), which can exert their role in several different ways, particularly in dictating the interaction with RNA-binding proteins, and acting in the regulation of a large number of cellular processes. Among the available motif-finding tools, the majority focuses on sequence patterns, sometimes including secondary structure as additional constraints to improve their performance. Nonetheless, secondary structures motifs may be concurrent to their sequence counterparts or even encode a stronger functional signal. Current methods for searching structural motifs generally require long pipelines and/or high computational efforts or previously aligned sequences. Here, we present BEAM (BEAr Motif finder), a novel method for structural motif discovery from a set of unaligned RNAs, taking advantage of a recently developed encoding for RNA secondary structure named BEAR (Brand nEw Alphabet for RNAs) and of evolutionary substitution rates of secondary structure elements. Tested in a varied set of scenarios, from small- to large-scale, BEAM is successful in retrieving structural motifs even in highly noisy data sets, such as those that can arise in CLIP-Seq or other high-throughput experiments.

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Nucleic Acid ConformationAlgorithmsAnimalsBiophysicsDatabases, Nucleic AcidELAV-Like Protein 1High-Throughput Nucleotide SequencingIronMiceNucleotide MotifsProtein BindingResponse ElementsRNASequence Analysis, RNAELAV-Like Protein 1IronRNA

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