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ArticleBioinformatics (Oxford, England)2023

Modified RNAs and predictions with the ViennaRNA Package.

Yuliia Varenyk, Thomas Spicher, Ivo L Hofacker, Ronny Lorenz

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Article in Bioinformatics (Oxford, England), 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers.

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24citing papers in PubMed
3.2field-weighted citation impact, top 8% of its field
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24 citing papers in PubMed, 21 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Yuliia VarenykDepartment of Theoretical Chemistry, University of Vienna, Vienna 1090, Austria.ORCID 0009-0009-0536-9345
Thomas SpicherDepartment of Theoretical Chemistry, University of Vienna, Vienna 1090, Austria.ORCID 0009-0001-8198-5213
Ivo L HofackerDepartment of Theoretical Chemistry, University of Vienna, Vienna 1090, Austria.ORCID 0000-0001-7132-0800
Ronny LorenzDepartment of Theoretical Chemistry, University of Vienna, Vienna 1090, Austria.ORCID 0000-0002-2144-698X
University of Vienna · AT

Funding

Austrian Science Fund I-4520
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

motivationIn living organisms, many RNA molecules are modified post-transcriptionally. This turns the widely known four-letter RNA alphabet ACGU into a much larger one with currently more than 300 known distinct modified bases. The roles for the majority of modified bases remain uncertain, but many are already well-known for their ability to influence the preferred structures that an RNA may adopt. In fact, tRNAs sometimes require certain modifications to fold into their cloverleaf shaped structure. However, predicting the structure of RNAs with base modifications is still difficult due to the lack of efficient algorithms that can deal with the extended sequence alphabet, as well as missing parameter sets that account for the changes in stability induced by the modified bases.

resultsWe present an approach to include sparse energy parameter data for modified bases into the ViennaRNA Package. Our method does not require any changes to the underlying efficient algorithms but instead uses a set of plug-in constraints that adapt the predictions in terms of loop evaluation at runtime. These adaptations are efficient in the sense that they are only performed for loops where additional parameters are actually available for. In addition, our approach also facilitates the inclusion of more modified bases as soon as further parameters become available. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION: Source code and documentation are available at https://www.tbi.univie.ac.at/RNA.

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PMID37971965
PMCPMC10676514
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