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ArticleNucleic acids research2021

RNAMotifContrast: a method to discover and visualize RNA structural motif subfamilies.

Shahidul Islam, Md Mahfuzur Rahaman, Shaojie Zhang

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Shahidul IslamDepartment of Computer Science, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL 32816, USA.
Md Mahfuzur RahamanDepartment of Computer Science, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL 32816, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-5963-4970
Shaojie ZhangDepartment of Computer Science, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL 32816, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-4051-5549

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RNA Structural Motif Analysis Revisited: Towards a Systematic Understanding of Noncoding RNA as Modular BiomoleculesR01GM102515 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA · PI ZHANG, SHAOJIE, ZHONG, CUNCONG · 2012 to 2025
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NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM102515
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Abstract

Understanding the 3D structural properties of RNAs will play a critical role in identifying their functional characteristics and designing new RNAs for RNA-based therapeutics and nanotechnology. While several existing computational methods can help in the analysis of RNA properties by recognizing structural motifs, they do not provide the means to compare and contrast those motifs extensively. We have developed a new method, RNAMotifContrast, which focuses on analyzing the similarities and variations of RNA structural motif characteristics. In this method, a graph is formed to represent the similarities among motifs, and a new traversal algorithm is applied to generate visualizations of their structural properties. Analyzing the structural features among motifs, we have recognized and generalized the concept of motif subfamilies. To asses its effectiveness, we have applied RNAMotifContrast on a dataset of known RNA structural motif families. From the results, we observed that the derived subfamilies possess unique structural variations while holding standard features of the families. Overall, the visualization approach of this method presents a new perspective to observe the relation among motifs more closely, and the discovered subfamilies provide opportunities to achieve valuable insights into RNA's diverse roles.

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AlgorithmsComputational BiologyModels, MolecularNucleic Acid ConformationNucleotide MotifsRNARNA

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