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ArticleNucleic acids research2017

TurboFold II: RNA structural alignment and secondary structure prediction informed by multiple homologs.

Zhen Tan, Yinghan Fu, Gaurav Sharma, David H Mathews

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Zhen TanDepartment of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Rochester Medical Center, 601 Elmwood Avenue, Box 712, Rochester, NY 14642, USA.
Yinghan FuDepartment of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Rochester Medical Center, 601 Elmwood Avenue, Box 712, Rochester, NY 14642, USA.
Gaurav SharmaCenter for RNA Biology, University of Rochester Medical Center, 601 Elmwood Avenue, Box 712, Rochester, NY 14642, USA.
David H MathewsDepartment of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Rochester Medical Center, 601 Elmwood Avenue, Box 712, Rochester, NY 14642, USA.

Funding

Structural Alignment of RNA Sequences with ApplicationsR01GM097334 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER · PI SHARMA, GAURAV · 2011 to 2015
$1.5M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM097334
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This paper presents TurboFold II, an extension of the TurboFold algorithm for predicting secondary structures for multiple RNA homologs. TurboFold II augments the structure prediction capabilities of TurboFold by additionally providing multiple sequence alignments. Probabilities for alignment of nucleotide positions between all pairs of input sequences are iteratively estimated in TurboFold II by incorporating information from both the sequence identity and secondary structures. A multiple sequence alignment is obtained from these probabilities by using a probabilistic consistency transformation and a hierarchically computed guide tree. To assess TurboFold II, its sequence alignment and structure predictions were compared with leading tools, including methods that focus on alignment alone and methods that provide both alignment and structure prediction. TurboFold II has comparable alignment accuracy with MAFFT and higher accuracy than other tools. TurboFold II also has comparable structure prediction accuracy as the original TurboFold algorithm, which is one of the most accurate methods. TurboFold II is part of the RNAstructure software package, which is freely available for download at http://rna.urmc.rochester.edu under a GPL license.

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AlgorithmsBase SequenceComputational BiologyHumansRNA FoldingSequence AlignmentSequence Analysis, RNA

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PMID29036420
PMCPMC5714223

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