List of RNA structure prediction software
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This list of RNA structure prediction software is a compilation of software tools and web portals used for RNA structure prediction.
Single sequence secondary structure prediction.
Single sequence tertiary structure prediction
Comparative methods
The single sequence methods mentioned above have a difficult job detecting a small sample of reasonable secondary structures from a large space of possible structures. A good way to reduce the size of the space is to use evolutionary approaches. Structures that have been conserved by evolution are far more likely to be the functional form. The methods below use this approach.
RNA solvent accessibility prediction
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RNAsnap2
(2020) | RNAsnap2 uses a dilated convolutional neural network with evolutionary features generated from BLAST + INFERNAL (same as RNAsol) and predicted base-pairing probabilities from LinearPartition as an input for the prediction of RNA solvent accessibility. Also, the single-sequence version of RNAsnap2 can predict the solvent accessibility of a given input RNA sequence without using evolutionary information. || [https://github.com/jaswindersingh2/RNAsnap2 sourcecode] [https://sparks-lab.org/server/rnasnap2/ webserver] |
RNAsol
(2019) |RNAsol predictor uses a unidirectional LSTM deep learning algorithm with evolutionary information generated from BLASTN + INFERNAL and predicted secondary structure from RNAfold as an input for the prediction of RNA solvent accessibility.|| [https://yanglab.nankai.edu.cn/RNAsol/ sourcecode] [https://yanglab.nankai.edu.cn/RNAsol/ webserver] |
RNAsnap
(2017) |RNAsnap predictor uses an SVM machine learning algorithm and evolutionary information generated from BLASTN as an input for the prediction of RNA solvent accessibility. || [https://sparks-lab.org/downloads/ sourcecode] || {{cite journal | vauthors = Yang Y, Li X, Zhao H, Zhan J, Wang J, Zhou Y | title = Genome-scale characterization of RNA tertiary structures and their functional impact by RNA solvent accessibility prediction | journal = RNA | volume = 23 | issue = 1 | pages = 14–22 | date = January 2017 | pmid = 27807179 | pmc = 5159645 | doi = 10.1261/rna.057364.116 }} |
Intermolecular interactions: RNA-RNA
Many ncRNAs function by binding to other RNAs. For example, miRNAs regulate protein coding gene expression by binding to 3' UTRs, small nucleolar RNAs guide post-transcriptional modifications by binding to rRNA, U4 spliceosomal RNA and U6 spliceosomal RNA bind to each other forming part of the spliceosome and many small bacterial RNAs regulate gene expression by antisense interactions E.g. GcvB, OxyS and RyhB.
Intermolecular interactions: MicroRNA:any RNA
The below table includes interactions that are not limited to UTRs.
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comTAR
| A a web tool for the prediction of miRNA targets that is mainly based on the conservation of the potential regulation in plant species. || {{yes}} || {{no}} || {{no}} || [http://rnabiology.ibr-conicet.gov.ar/comtar/ Web tool] || {{cite journal | vauthors = Chorostecki U, Palatnik JF | title = comTAR: a web tool for the prediction and characterization of conserved microRNA targets in plants | journal = Bioinformatics | volume = 30 | issue = 14 | pages = 2066–2067 | date = July 2014 | pmid = 24632500 | doi = 10.1093/bioinformatics/btu147 | doi-access = free | hdl = 11336/29681 | hdl-access = free }} |
RNA22
|The first link (precomputed predictions) provides RNA22 predictions for all protein coding transcripts in human, mouse, roundworm, and fruit fly. It allows visualizing the predictions within a cDNA map and also find transcripts where multiple miR's of interest target. The second web-site link (interactive/custom sequences) first finds putative microRNA binding sites in the sequence of interest, then identifies the targeted microRNA. Both tools are provided by the [http://cm.jefferson.edu/ Computational Medicine Center] at [http://www.jefferson.edu Thomas Jefferson University].|| {{yes}} || {{no}} || {{no}} || [http://cm.jefferson.edu/rna22v2.0/ precomputed predictions] [http://cm.jefferson.edu/rna22v2/ interactive/custom sequences] || {{cite journal | vauthors = Miranda KC, Huynh T, Tay Y, Ang YS, Tam WL, Thomson AM, Lim B, Rigoutsos I | display-authors = 6 | title = A pattern-based method for the identification of MicroRNA binding sites and their corresponding heteroduplexes | journal = Cell | volume = 126 | issue = 6 | pages = 1203–1217 | date = September 2006 | pmid = 16990141 | doi = 10.1016/j.cell.2006.07.031 | doi-access = free }} |
RNAhybrid
|Tool to find the minimum free energy hybridisation of a long and a short RNA (≤ 30 nt). || {{yes}} || {{no}} || {{no}} || [http://bibiserv.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de/rnahybrid/ sourcecode], [http://bibiserv.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de/rnahybrid/submission.html webserver] || |
miRBooking
|Simulates the stochiometric mode of action of microRNAs using a derivative of the Gale-Shapley algorithm for finding a stable set of duplexes. It uses quantifications for traversing the set of mRNA and microRNA pairs and seed complementarity for ranking and assigning sites. || {{yes }} || {{no}} || {{no}} || [https://major.iric.ca/mirbooking/ sourcecode], [https://major.iric.ca/~poirigui/mirbooking-scan/ webserver] |
Intermolecular interactions: MicroRNA:UTR
MicroRNAs regulate protein coding gene expression by binding to 3' UTRs, there are tools specifically designed for predicting these interactions. For an evaluation of target prediction methods on high-throughput experimental data see (Baek et al., Nature 2008),{{cite journal | vauthors = Baek D, Villén J, Shin C, Camargo FD, Gygi SP, Bartel DP | title = The impact of microRNAs on protein output | journal = Nature | volume = 455 | issue = 7209 | pages = 64–71 | date = September 2008 | pmid = 18668037 | pmc = 2745094 | doi = 10.1038/nature07242 | bibcode = 2008Natur.455...64B }} (Alexiou et al., Bioinformatics 2009),{{cite journal | vauthors = Alexiou P, Maragkakis M, Papadopoulos GL, Reczko M, Hatzigeorgiou AG | title = Lost in translation: an assessment and perspective for computational microRNA target identification | journal = Bioinformatics | volume = 25 | issue = 23 | pages = 3049–3055 | date = December 2009 | pmid = 19789267 | doi = 10.1093/bioinformatics/btp565 | doi-access = free }} or (Ritchie et al., Nature Methods 2009){{cite journal | vauthors = Ritchie W, Flamant S, Rasko JE | title = Predicting microRNA targets and functions: traps for the unwary | journal = Nature Methods | volume = 6 | issue = 6 | pages = 397–398 | date = June 2009 | pmid = 19478799 | doi = 10.1038/nmeth0609-397 | s2cid = 205417583 }}
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Cupid
|Method for simultaneous prediction of miRNA-target interactions and their mediated competing endogenous RNA (ceRNA) interactions. It is an integrative approach significantly improves on miRNA-target prediction accuracy as assessed by both mRNA and protein level measurements in breast cancer cell lines. Cupid is implemented in 3 steps: Step 1: re-evaluate candidate miRNA binding sites in 3' UTRs. Step2: interactions are predicted by integrating information about selected sites and the statistical dependency between the expression profiles of miRNA and putative targets. Step 3: Cupid assesses whether inferred targets compete for predicted miRNA regulators.|| {{no|human}} || {{no}} || {{yes}} || [http://cupidtool.sourceforge.net software (MATLAB)] || {{cite journal | vauthors = Chiu HS, Llobet-Navas D, Yang X, Chung WJ, Ambesi-Impiombato A, Iyer A, Kim HR, Seviour EG, Luo Z, Sehgal V, Moss T, Lu Y, Ram P, Silva J, Mills GB, Califano A, Sumazin P | display-authors = 6 | title = Cupid: simultaneous reconstruction of microRNA-target and ceRNA networks | journal = Genome Research | volume = 25 | issue = 2 | pages = 257–267 | date = February 2015 | pmid = 25378249 | pmc = 4315299 | doi = 10.1101/gr.178194.114 }} |
Diana-microT
|Version 3.0 is an algorithm based on several parameters calculated individually for each microRNA and it combines conserved and non-conserved microRNA recognition elements into a final prediction score.|| {{some|human, mouse}} || {{no}} || {{yes}} || [https://web.archive.org/web/20101208180159/http://diana.cslab.ece.ntua.gr/microT/ webserver] || {{cite journal | vauthors = Maragkakis M, Alexiou P, Papadopoulos GL, Reczko M, Dalamagas T, Giannopoulos G, Goumas G, Koukis E, Kourtis K, Simossis VA, Sethupathy P, Vergoulis T, Koziris N, Sellis T, Tsanakas P, Hatzigeorgiou AG | display-authors = 6 | title = Accurate microRNA target prediction correlates with protein repression levels | journal = BMC Bioinformatics | volume = 10 | issue = 1 | page = 295 | date = September 2009 | pmid = 19765283 | pmc = 2752464 | doi = 10.1186/1471-2105-10-295 | doi-access = free }} |
MicroTar
|An animal miRNA target prediction tool based on miRNA-target complementarity and thermodynamic data. || {{yes}} || {{no}} || {{no}} || [http://tiger.dbs.nus.edu.sg/microtar/ sourcecode] || {{cite journal | vauthors = Thadani R, Tammi MT | title = MicroTar: predicting microRNA targets from RNA duplexes | journal = BMC Bioinformatics | volume = 7 | issue = Suppl 5 | pages = S20 | date = December 2006 | pmid = 17254305 | pmc = 1764477 | doi = 10.1186/1471-2105-7-S5-S20 | series = 7 | doi-access = free }} |
miTarget
|microRNA target gene prediction using a support vector machine. || {{yes}} || {{no}} || {{no}} || [http://cbit.snu.ac.kr/~miTarget/ webserver] || {{cite journal | vauthors = Kim SK, Nam JW, Rhee JK, Lee WJ, Zhang BT | title = miTarget: microRNA target gene prediction using a support vector machine | journal = BMC Bioinformatics | volume = 7 | issue = 1 | page = 411 | date = September 2006 | pmid = 16978421 | pmc = 1594580 | doi = 10.1186/1471-2105-7-411 | doi-access = free }} |
miRror
| Based on the notion of a combinatorial regulation by an ensemble of miRNAs or genes. miRror integrates predictions from a dozen of miRNA resources that are based on complementary algorithms into a unified statistical framework || {{yes}} || {{no}} || {{no}} || [http://www.proto.cs.huji.ac.il/mirror/index.php webserver] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303235512/http://www.proto.cs.huji.ac.il/mirror/index.php |date=2016-03-03 }} || {{cite journal | vauthors = Friedman Y, Naamati G, Linial M | title = MiRror: a combinatorial analysis web tool for ensembles of microRNAs and their targets | journal = Bioinformatics | volume = 26 | issue = 15 | pages = 1920–1921 | date = August 2010 | pmid = 20529892 | doi = 10.1093/bioinformatics/btq298 | doi-access = free }}{{cite journal | vauthors = Balaga O, Friedman Y, Linial M | title = Toward a combinatorial nature of microRNA regulation in human cells | journal = Nucleic Acids Research | volume = 40 | issue = 19 | pages = 9404–9416 | date = October 2012 | pmid = 22904063 | pmc = 3479204 | doi = 10.1093/nar/gks759 }} |
PicTar
|Combinatorial microRNA target predictions. || {{some|8 vertebrates}} || {{no}} || {{yes}} || [https://web.archive.org/web/20080724163022/http://pictar.bio.nyu.edu/ predictions] || {{cite journal | vauthors = Krek A, Grün D, Poy MN, Wolf R, Rosenberg L, Epstein EJ, MacMenamin P, da Piedade I, Gunsalus KC, Stoffel M, Rajewsky N | display-authors = 6 | title = Combinatorial microRNA target predictions | journal = Nature Genetics | volume = 37 | issue = 5 | pages = 495–500 | date = May 2005 | pmid = 15806104 | doi = 10.1038/ng1536 | s2cid = 22672750 }} |
PITA
|Incorporates the role of target-site accessibility, as determined by base-pairing interactions within the mRNA, in microRNA target recognition.|| {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{no}} || [http://genie.weizmann.ac.il/pubs/mir07/mir07_exe.html executable], [http://genie.weizmann.ac.il/pubs/mir07/mir07_prediction.html webserver], [http://genie.weizmann.ac.il/pubs/mir07/mir07_data.html predictions] || {{cite journal | vauthors = Kertesz M, Iovino N, Unnerstall U, Gaul U, Segal E | title = The role of site accessibility in microRNA target recognition | journal = Nature Genetics | volume = 39 | issue = 10 | pages = 1278–1284 | date = October 2007 | pmid = 17893677 | doi = 10.1038/ng2135 | s2cid = 1721807 }} |
RNA22
|The first link (precomputed predictions) provides RNA22 predictions for all protein coding transcripts in human, mouse, roundworm, and fruit fly. It allows visualizing the predictions within a cDNA map and also find transcripts where multiple miR's of interest target. The second web-site link (interactive/custom sequences) first finds putative microRNA binding sites in the sequence of interest, then identifies the targeted microRNA. Both tools are provided by the [http://cm.jefferson.edu/ Computational Medicine Center] at [http://www.jefferson.edu Thomas Jefferson University].|| {{yes}} || {{no}} || {{no}} || [http://cm.jefferson.edu/rna22v2.0/ precomputed predictions] [http://cm.jefferson.edu/rna22v2/ interactive/custom sequences] || |
RNAhybrid
|Tool to find the minimum free energy hybridisation of a long and a short RNA (≤ 30 nt). || {{yes}} || {{no}} || {{no}} || [http://bibiserv.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de/rnahybrid/ sourcecode], [http://bibiserv.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de/rnahybrid/submission.html webserver] || |
Sylamer
|Method to find significantly over or under-represented words in sequences according to a sorted gene list. Usually used to find significant enrichment or depletion of microRNA or siRNA seed sequences from microarray expression data. || {{yes}} || {{no}} || {{no}} || [http://www.ebi.ac.uk/enright/sylamer/ sourcecode] [http://www.ebi.ac.uk/enright/sylarray/ webserver] || {{cite journal | vauthors = van Dongen S, Abreu-Goodger C, Enright AJ | title = Detecting microRNA binding and siRNA off-target effects from expression data | journal = Nature Methods | volume = 5 | issue = 12 | pages = 1023–1025 | date = December 2008 | pmid = 18978784 | pmc = 2635553 | doi = 10.1038/nmeth.1267 }}{{cite journal | vauthors = Bartonicek N, Enright AJ | title = SylArray: a web server for automated detection of miRNA effects from expression data | journal = Bioinformatics | volume = 26 | issue = 22 | pages = 2900–2901 | date = November 2010 | pmid = 20871108 | doi = 10.1093/bioinformatics/btq545 | doi-access = free }} |
TAREF
|TARget REFiner (TAREF) predicts microRNA targets on the basis of multiple feature information derived from the flanking regions of the predicted target sites where traditional structure prediction approach may not be successful to assess the openness. It also provides an option to use encoded pattern to refine filtering. || {{yes}} || {{no}} || {{no}} || [http://scbb.ihbt.res.in/TAREF/programchoice.html server/sourcecode] || {{cite journal | vauthors = Heikham R, Shankar R | title = Flanking region sequence information to refine microRNA target predictions | journal = Journal of Biosciences | volume = 35 | issue = 1 | pages = 105–118 | date = March 2010 | pmid = 20413915 | doi = 10.1007/s12038-010-0013-7 | name-list-style = amp | s2cid = 7047781 }} |
p-TAREF
|plant TARget REFiner (p-TAREF) identifies plant microRNA targets on the basis of multiple feature information derived from the flanking regions of the predicted target sites where traditional structure prediction approach may not be successful to assess the openness. It also provides an option to use encoded pattern to refine filtering. It first time employed power of machine learning approach with scoring scheme through support vector regression (SVR) while considering structural and alignment aspects of targeting in plants with plant specific models. p-TAREF has been implemented in concurrent architecture in server and standalone form, making it one of the very few available target identification tools able to run concurrently on simple desktops while performing huge transcriptome level analysis accurately and fast. Also provides option to experimentally validate the predicted targets, on the spot, using expression data, which has been integrated in its back-end, to draw confidence on prediction along with SVR score.p-TAREF performance benchmarking has been done extensively through different tests and compared with other plant miRNA target identification tools. p-TAREF was found to perform better.|| {{yes}} || {{no}} || {{no}} || [http://scbb.ihbt.res.in/SCBB_dept/Software.php server/standalone] || |
TargetScan
|Predicts biological targets of miRNAs by searching for the presence of sites that match the seed region of each miRNA. In flies and nematodes, predictions are ranked based on the probability of their evolutionary conservation. In zebrafish, predictions are ranked based on site number, site type, and site context, which includes factors that influence target-site accessibility. In mammals, the user can choose whether the predictions should be ranked based on the probability of their conservation or on site number, type, and context. In mammals and nematodes, the user can choose to extend predictions beyond conserved sites and consider all sites. || {{some|vertebrates, flies, nematodes}} || {{some|evaluated indirectly}} || {{yes}} || [http://www.targetscan.org/cgi-bin/targetscan/data_download.cgi?db=vert_60 sourcecode], [http://www.targetscan.org/ webserver] || {{cite journal | vauthors = Lewis BP, Shih IH, Jones-Rhoades MW, Bartel DP, Burge CB | title = Prediction of mammalian microRNA targets | journal = Cell | volume = 115 | issue = 7 | pages = 787–798 | date = December 2003 | pmid = 14697198 | doi = 10.1016/S0092-8674(03)01018-3 | doi-access = free }}{{cite journal | vauthors = Lewis BP, Burge CB, Bartel DP | title = Conserved seed pairing, often flanked by adenosines, indicates that thousands of human genes are microRNA targets | journal = Cell | volume = 120 | issue = 1 | pages = 15–20 | date = January 2005 | pmid = 15652477 | doi = 10.1016/j.cell.2004.12.035 | doi-access = free }}{{cite journal | vauthors = Grimson A, Farh KK, Johnston WK, Garrett-Engele P, Lim LP, Bartel DP | title = MicroRNA targeting specificity in mammals: determinants beyond seed pairing | journal = Molecular Cell | volume = 27 | issue = 1 | pages = 91–105 | date = July 2007 | pmid = 17612493 | pmc = 3800283 | doi = 10.1016/j.molcel.2007.06.017 }}{{cite journal | vauthors = Garcia DM, Baek D, Shin C, Bell GW, Grimson A, Bartel DP | title = Weak seed-pairing stability and high target-site abundance decrease the proficiency of lsy-6 and other microRNAs | journal = Nature Structural & Molecular Biology | volume = 18 | issue = 10 | pages = 1139–1146 | date = September 2011 | pmid = 21909094 | pmc = 3190056 | doi = 10.1038/nsmb.2115 }}{{cite journal | vauthors = Agarwal V, Bell GW, Nam JW, Bartel DP | title = Predicting effective microRNA target sites in mammalian mRNAs | journal = eLife | volume = 4 | pages = e05005 | date = August 2015 | pmid = 26267216 | pmc = 4532895 | doi = 10.7554/eLife.05005 | doi-access = free }}{{cite journal | vauthors = Agarwal V, Subtelny AO, Thiru P, Ulitsky I, Bartel DP | title = Predicting microRNA targeting efficacy in Drosophila | journal = Genome Biology | volume = 19 | issue = 1 | page = 152 | date = October 2018 | pmid = 30286781 | pmc = 6172730 | doi = 10.1186/s13059-018-1504-3 | doi-access = free }} |
ncRNA gene prediction software
Family specific gene prediction software
RNA homology search software
Benchmarks
Alignment viewers, editors
Inverse folding, RNA design
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Secondary structure viewers, editors
See also
References
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