Advances and opportunities in RNA structure experimental determination and computational modeling

J Zhang, Y Fei, L Sun, QC Zhang - Nature methods, 2022 - nature.com
Beyond transferring genetic information, RNAs are molecules with diverse functions that
include catalyzing biochemical reactions and regulating gene expression. Most of these …

Tailor made: the art of therapeutic mRNA design

M Metkar, CS Pepin, MJ Moore - Nature Reviews Drug Discovery, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract mRNA medicine is a new and rapidly developing field in which the delivery of
genetic information in the form of mRNA is used to direct therapeutic protein production in …

Multiple sequence alignment-based RNA language model and its application to structural inference

Y Zhang, M Lang, J Jiang, Z Gao, F Xu… - Nucleic Acids …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Compared with proteins, DNA and RNA are more difficult languages to interpret because
four-letter coded DNA/RNA sequences have less information content than 20-letter coded …

Challenges and best practices in omics benchmarking

TG Brooks, NF Lahens, A Mrčela, GR Grant - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2024 - nature.com
Technological advances enabling massively parallel measurement of biological features—
such as microarrays, high-throughput sequencing and mass spectrometry—have ushered in …

Recent trends in RNA informatics: a review of machine learning and deep learning for RNA secondary structure prediction and RNA drug discovery

K Sato, M Hamada - Briefings in Bioinformatics, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Computational analysis of RNA sequences constitutes a crucial step in the field of RNA
biology. As in other domains of the life sciences, the incorporation of artificial intelligence …

Machine learning for RNA 2D structure prediction benchmarked on experimental data

M Justyna, M Antczak, M Szachniuk - Briefings in Bioinformatics, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Since the 1980s, dozens of computational methods have addressed the problem of
predicting RNA secondary structure. Among them are those that follow standard optimization …

Machine learning modeling of RNA structures: methods, challenges and future perspectives

KE Wu, JY Zou, H Chang - Briefings in Bioinformatics, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The three-dimensional structure of RNA molecules plays a critical role in a wide range of
cellular processes encompassing functions from riboswitches to epigenetic regulation …

Scalable deep learning for RNA secondary structure prediction

JKH Franke, F Runge, F Hutter - arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.10073, 2023 - arxiv.org
The field of RNA secondary structure prediction has made significant progress with the
adoption of deep learning techniques. In this work, we present the RNAformer, a lean deep …

Advances in RNA 3D structure prediction

X Ou, Y Zhang, Y Xiong, Y Xiao - Journal of Chemical Information …, 2022 - ACS Publications
RNA molecules carry out various cellular functions, and understanding the mechanisms
behind their functions requires the knowledge of their 3D structures. Different types of …

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

K Chen, T Litfin, J Singh, J Zhan… - Genomics, Proteomics & …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Recent success of AlphaFold2 in protein structure prediction relied heavily on co-
evolutionary information derived from homologous protein sequences found in the huge …