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ArticleBMC bioinformatics2018

StructRNAfinder: an automated pipeline and web server for RNA families prediction.

Raúl Arias-Carrasco, Yessenia Vásquez-Morán, Helder I Nakaya, Vinicius Maracaja-Coutinho

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Article in BMC bioinformatics, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 27 papers.

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27citing papers in PubMed
1.9field-weighted citation impact, top 14% of its field
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27 citing papers in PubMed, 60 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Raúl Arias-CarrascoCentro de Genómica y Bioinformática, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Mayor, 8580745, Santiago, Chile.
Yessenia Vásquez-MoránCentro de Genómica y Bioinformática, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Mayor, 8580745, Santiago, Chile.
Helder I NakayaFaculdade de Ciências Farmacêuticas, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, 05508-900, Brazil. hnakaya@usp.br.
Vinicius Maracaja-CoutinhoCentro de Genómica y Bioinformática, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Mayor, 8580745, Santiago, Chile. viniciusmaracaja@integrativebioinformatics.me.ORCID 0000-0002-8873-9381
Universidad Mayor · CLUniversidade de São Paulo · BR

Funding

Comisión Nacional de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica 11161020Comisión Nacional de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica 15130011Comisión Nacional de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica PAI79170021Corporación de Fomento de la Producción 14-SSAF-27061-9Corporación de Fomento de la Producción (CL) 16BPE-62321Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo 12/19278-6
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundThe function of many noncoding RNAs (ncRNAs) depend upon their secondary structures. Over the last decades, several methodologies have been developed to predict such structures or to use them to functionally annotate RNAs into RNA families. However, to fully perform this analysis, researchers should utilize multiple tools, which require the constant parsing and processing of several intermediate files. This makes the large-scale prediction and annotation of RNAs a daunting task even to researchers with good computational or bioinformatics skills.

resultsWe present an automated pipeline named StructRNAfinder that predicts and annotates RNA families in transcript or genome sequences. This single tool not only displays the sequence/structural consensus alignments for each RNA family, according to Rfam database but also provides a taxonomic overview for each assigned functional RNA. Moreover, we implemented a user-friendly web service that allows researchers to upload their own nucleotide sequences in order to perform the whole analysis. Finally, we provided a stand-alone version of StructRNAfinder to be used in large-scale projects. The tool was developed under GNU General Public License (GPLv3) and is freely available at http://structrnafinder.integrativebioinformatics.me .

conclusionsThe main advantage of StructRNAfinder relies on the large-scale processing and integrating the data obtained by each tool and database employed along the workflow, of which several files are generated and displayed in user-friendly reports, useful for downstream analyses and data exploration.

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InternetSoftwareAutomationComputational BiologyRNAWorkflowRNACovariance modelsNoncoding RNAsPipelineRNA familyRNA structureToolWeb server

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PMID29454313
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