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ArticleNucleic acids research2021

MoiRNAiFold: a novel tool for complex in silico RNA design.

Gerard Minuesa, Cristina Alsina, Juan Antonio Garcia-Martin, Juan Carlos Oliveros, Ivan Dotu

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Article in Nucleic acids research, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 16 papers.

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16 citing papers in PubMed.

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  9. Complex In Silico RNA Design with MoiRNAiFold.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2025
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  10. Datasets for Benchmarking RNA Design Algorithms.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2025
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5 · Who and what money

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5 authors.

Gerard MinuesaMoirai Biodesign, c/ Baldiri Reixach s/n, Parc Científic de Barcelona (PCB), 08028 Barcelona, Spain.
Cristina AlsinaMoirai Biodesign, c/ Baldiri Reixach s/n, Parc Científic de Barcelona (PCB), 08028 Barcelona, Spain.
Juan Antonio Garcia-MartinBioinformatics for Genomics and Proteomics. National Centre for Biotechnology (CNB-CSIC). c/ Darwin 3, 28049 Madrid, Spain.
Juan Carlos OliverosBioinformatics for Genomics and Proteomics. National Centre for Biotechnology (CNB-CSIC). c/ Darwin 3, 28049 Madrid, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-4520-0853
Ivan DotuMoirai Biodesign, c/ Baldiri Reixach s/n, Parc Científic de Barcelona (PCB), 08028 Barcelona, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-0438-9557

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Novel tools for in silico design of RNA constructs such as riboregulators are required in order to reduce time and cost to production for the development of diagnostic and therapeutic advances. Here, we present MoiRNAiFold, a versatile and user-friendly tool for de novo synthetic RNA design. MoiRNAiFold is based on Constraint Programming and it includes novel variable types, heuristics and restart strategies for Large Neighborhood Search. Moreover, this software can handle dozens of design constraints and quality measures and improves features for RNA regulation control of gene expression, such as Translation Efficiency calculation. We demonstrate that MoiRNAiFold outperforms any previous software in benchmarking structural RNA puzzles from EteRNA. Importantly, with regard to biologically relevant RNA designs, we focus on RNA riboregulators, demonstrating that the designed RNA sequences are functional both in vitro and in vivo. Overall, we have generated a powerful tool for de novo complex RNA design that we make freely available as a web server (https://moiraibiodesign.com/design/).

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SoftwareBase SequenceComputer SimulationGene Expression RegulationNucleic Acid ConformationProtein BiosynthesisRNASynthetic BiologyRNA

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PMCPMC8136780

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