Concepts and Introduction to RNA Bioinformatics

RNA bioinformatics and computational RNA biology have emerged from implementing methods for predicting the secondary structure of single sequences. The field has evolved to exploit multiple sequences to take evolutionary information into account, such as compensating (and structure preserving) base changes. These methods have been developed further and applied for computational screens of genomic sequence. Furthermore, a number of additional directions have emerged. These include methods to search for RNA 3D structure, RNA–RNA interactions, and design of interfering RNAs (RNAi) as well as methods for interactions between RNA and proteins.

Source: Springer protocols feed by Bioinformatics - December 4, 2013 Category: Bioinformatics Source Type: news