Evidence map›Paper›PMID 34446608›Full record

ArticleScience (New York, N.Y.)2021

Geometric deep learning of RNA structure.

Raphael J L Townshend, Stephan Eismann, Andrew M Watkins, Ramya Rangan, Masha Karelina, Rhiju Das, Ron O Dror

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Article in Science (New York, N.Y.), 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 197 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

197 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Raphael J L Townshend *Department of Computer Science, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-6362-1451
Stephan Eismann *Department of Computer Science, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.
Andrew M Watkins *Department of Biochemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-1617-1720
Ramya RanganDepartment of Biochemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-0960-0825
Masha KarelinaDepartment of Computer Science, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-1880-4536
Rhiju DasDepartment of Biochemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA. ron.dror@stanford.edu rhiju@stanford.edu.ORCID 0000-0001-7497-0972
Ron O DrorDepartment of Computer Science, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA. ron.dror@stanford.edu rhiju@stanford.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-6418-2793

Funding

Next-generation computational/chemical methods for complex RNA structuresR35GM122579 · NIGMS · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI Rhiju Das · 2017 to 2026
$7.2M
Computational tools for understanding chemically modified RNA structure and interactionsR21CA219847 · NCI · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI DAS, RHIJU · 2017 to 2018
$334k
NCI NIH HHS R21 CA219847NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM122579
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

RNA molecules adopt three-dimensional structures that are critical to their function and of interest in drug discovery. Few RNA structures are known, however, and predicting them computationally has proven challenging. We introduce a machine learning approach that enables identification of accurate structural models without assumptions about their defining characteristics, despite being trained with only 18 known RNA structures. The resulting scoring function, the Atomic Rotationally Equivariant Scorer (ARES), substantially outperforms previous methods and consistently produces the best results in community-wide blind RNA structure prediction challenges. By learning effectively even from a small amount of data, our approach overcomes a major limitation of standard deep neural networks. Because it uses only atomic coordinates as inputs and incorporates no RNA-specific information, this approach is applicable to diverse problems in structural biology, chemistry, materials science, and beyond.

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Deep LearningNucleic Acid ConformationModels, MolecularNeural Networks, ComputerRNARNA

Identifiers

PMID34446608
PMCPMC9829186

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