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ArticleNature communications2025

Deep generalizable prediction of RNA secondary structure via base pair motif energy.

Heqin Zhu, Fenghe Tang, Quan Quan, Ke Chen, Peng Xiong, S Kevin Zhou

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Heqin ZhuSchool of Biomedical Engineering, Division of Life Sciences and Medicine, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), Hefei, Anhui, 230026, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9469-950X
Fenghe TangSchool of Biomedical Engineering, Division of Life Sciences and Medicine, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), Hefei, Anhui, 230026, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0009-6193-4855
Quan QuanKey Laboratory of Intelligent Information Processing of Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, China.
Ke ChenSchool of Biomedical Engineering, Division of Life Sciences and Medicine, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), Hefei, Anhui, 230026, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0433-5580
Peng XiongSchool of Biomedical Engineering, Division of Life Sciences and Medicine, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), Hefei, Anhui, 230026, China. xiongxp@ustc.edu.cn.
S Kevin ZhouSchool of Biomedical Engineering, Division of Life Sciences and Medicine, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), Hefei, Anhui, 230026, China. skevinzhou@ustc.edu.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6881-4444

Funding

National Natural Science Foundation of China (National Science Foundation of China) 32370581National Natural Science Foundation of China (National Science Foundation of China) 62271465
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Abstract

Deep learning methods have demonstrated great performance for RNA secondary structure prediction. However, generalizability is a common unsolved issue on unseen out-of-distribution RNA families, which hinders further improvement of the accuracy and robustness of deep learning methods. Here we construct a base pair motif library that enumerates the complete space of the locally adjacent three-neighbor base pair and records the thermodynamic energy of corresponding base pair motifs through de novo modeling of tertiary structures, and we further develop a deep learning approach for RNA secondary structure prediction, named BPfold, which learns relationship between RNA sequence and the energy map of base pair motif. Experiments on sequence-wise and family-wise datasets have demonstrated the great superiority of BPfold compared to other state-of-the-art approaches in accuracy and generalizability. We hope this work contributes to integrating physical priors and deep learning methods for the further discovery of RNA structures and functionalities.

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Base PairingComputational BiologyDeep LearningNucleic Acid ConformationNucleotide MotifsRNAThermodynamicsRNA

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