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ArticleGenomics, proteomics & bioinformatics2024

MARS and RNAcmap3: The Master Database of All Possible RNA Sequences Integrated with RNAcmap for RNA Homology Search.

Ke Chen, Thomas Litfin, Jaswinder Singh, Jian Zhan, Yaoqi Zhou

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Article in Genomics, proteomics & bioinformatics, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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Ke ChenInstitute of Systems and Physical Biology, Shenzhen Bay Laboratory, Shenzhen 518055, China.ORCID 0000-0003-0433-5580
Thomas LitfinInstitute for Glycomics, Griffith University, Southport, QLD 4222, Australia.ORCID 0000-0002-4863-3865
Jaswinder SinghInstitute of Systems and Physical Biology, Shenzhen Bay Laboratory, Shenzhen 518055, China.ORCID 0000-0002-0478-5533
Jian ZhanInstitute of Systems and Physical Biology, Shenzhen Bay Laboratory, Shenzhen 518055, China.ORCID 0000-0003-0856-2385
Yaoqi ZhouInstitute of Systems and Physical Biology, Shenzhen Bay Laboratory, Shenzhen 518055, China.ORCID 0000-0002-9958-5699

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Abstract

Recent success of AlphaFold2 in protein structure prediction relied heavily on co-evolutionary information derived from homologous protein sequences found in the huge, integrated database of protein sequences (Big Fantastic Database). In contrast, the existing nucleotide databases were not consolidated to facilitate wider and deeper homology search. Here, we built a comprehensive database by incorporating the non-coding RNA (ncRNA) sequences from RNAcentral, the transcriptome assembly and metagenome assembly from metagenomics RAST (MG-RAST), the genomic sequences from Genome Warehouse (GWH), and the genomic sequences from MGnify, in addition to the nucleotide (nt) database and its subsets in National Center of Biotechnology Information (NCBI). The resulting Master database of All possible RNA sequences (MARS) is 20-fold larger than NCBI's nt database or 60-fold larger than RNAcentral. The new dataset along with a new split-search strategy allows a substantial improvement in homology search over existing state-of-the-art techniques. It also yields more accurate and more sensitive multiple sequence alignments (MSAs) than manually curated MSAs from Rfam for the majority of structured RNAs mapped to Rfam. The results indicate that MARS coupled with the fully automatic homology search tool RNAcmap will be useful for improved structural and functional inference of ncRNAs and RNA language models based on MSAs. MARS is accessible at https://ngdc.cncb.ac.cn/omix/release/OMIX003037, and RNAcmap3 is accessible at http://zhouyq-lab.szbl.ac.cn/download/.

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Databases, Nucleic AcidDatabases, GeneticRNARNA, UntranslatedSequence AlignmentSequence Analysis, RNASoftwareRNARNA, UntranslatedHomology searchMARSRNAcmap3RNA sequence databaseSecondary structure

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