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ArticleNucleic acids research2025

Enhanced RNA secondary structure prediction through integrative deep learning and structural context analysis.

Yongtian Wang, Yewei Shen, Jiahao Li, Tao Wang, Jiajie Peng, Xuequn Shang

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Article in Nucleic acids research, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 26 papers.

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Yongtian WangSchool of Computer Science, Northwestern Polytechnical University, 1 Dongxiang Rd, Xi'an 710129, China.ORCID 0000-0003-2766-3106
Yewei ShenSchool of Computer Science, Northwestern Polytechnical University, 1 Dongxiang Rd, Xi'an 710129, China.
Jiahao LiSchool of Computer Science, Northwestern Polytechnical University, 1 Dongxiang Rd, Xi'an 710129, China.
Tao WangSchool of Computer Science, Northwestern Polytechnical University, 1 Dongxiang Rd, Xi'an 710129, China.ORCID 0000-0002-5728-6463
Jiajie PengSchool of Computer Science, Northwestern Polytechnical University, 1 Dongxiang Rd, Xi'an 710129, China.ORCID 0000-0002-3857-7927
Xuequn ShangSchool of Computer Science, Northwestern Polytechnical University, 1 Dongxiang Rd, Xi'an 710129, China.

Funding

China Postdoctoral Science Foundation 2023M732860Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities G2021KY05108Guangdong Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation 2024A1515010676National Natural Science Foundation of China 62076082National Natural Science Foundation of China 62202380National Natural Science Foundation of China 92370106
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Abstract

Analyzing RNA secondary structures plays a crucial role in elucidating the functional mechanisms of RNA. Despite advances in RNA structure determination, these methods are low throughout and resource-intensive. While machine learning-based models have achieved remarkable performance in terms of prediction accuracy, challenges such as data scarcity and overfitting remain common. Here, we introduce a phased learning strategy that integrates RNA sequence and structural context information to mitigate the risk of overfitting and employs pairing constraints to train the model on folding scores. This approach effectively addresses both local and long-range nucleotide interactions, substantially improving the robustness of RNA secondary structure predictions. Our comprehensive analysis across multiple benchmarking datasets demonstrated that the performance of our model (DSRNAFold) was superior to that of existing methods, especially in pseudoknot recognition and chemical mapping activity prediction, where our approach showed positive performance.

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Computational BiologyDeep LearningNucleic Acid ConformationRNAAlgorithmsRNA FoldingRNA

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