Targeting and engineering long non-coding RNAs for cancer therapy

M Coan, S Haefliger, S Ounzain, R Johnson - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2024 - nature.com
RNA therapeutics (RNATx) aim to treat diseases, including cancer, by targeting or
employing RNA molecules for therapeutic purposes. Amongst the most promising targets …

RNA design via structure-aware multifrontier ensemble optimization

T Zhou, N Dai, S Li, M Ward, DH Mathews… - …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Motivation RNA design is the search for a sequence or set of sequences that will fold to
desired structure, also known as the inverse problem of RNA folding. However, the …

Undesignable RNA Structure Identification via Rival Structure Generation and Structure Decomposition

T Zhou, WY Tang, DH Mathews, L Huang - International Conference on …, 2024 - Springer
RNA design is the search for a sequence or set of sequences that will fold into predefined
structures, also known as the inverse problem of RNA folding. While numerous RNA design …

Differentiable partition function calculation for RNA

MC Matthies, R Krueger, AE Torda… - Nucleic Acids …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Ribonucleic acid (RNA) is an essential molecule in a wide range of biological functions. In
1990, McCaskill introduced a dynamic programming algorithm for computing the partition …

gRNAde: Geometric Deep Learning for 3D RNA inverse design

CK Joshi, AR Jamasb, R Viñas, C Harris, SV Mathis… - bioRxiv, 2024 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Computational RNA design tasks are often posed as inverse problems, where sequences
are designed based on adopting a single desired secondary structure without considering …

DNA Structure Design Is Improved Using an Artificially Expanded Alphabet of Base Pairs Including Loop and Mismatch Thermodynamic Parameters

TM Pham, T Miffin, H Sun, KK Sharp, X Wang… - ACS Synthetic …, 2023 - ACS Publications
We show that in silico design of DNA secondary structures is improved by extending the
base pairing alphabet beyond A–T and G–C to include the pair between 2-amino-8-(1′-β-d …

Scalable Identification of Minimum Undesignable RNA Motifs on Loop-Pair Graphs

T Zhou, WY Tang, DH Mathews, L Huang - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Motivation: RNA design aims to find at least one sequence that folds with the highest
probability into a designated target structure, but some structures are undesignable in the …

Context-dependent structure formation of RNA hairpin motifs

V Bukina, A Bozic - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Many functions of ribonucleic acid (RNA) rely on its ability to assume specific sequence-
structure motifs. Packaging signals of some RNA viruses-hairpin motifs that interact with …

Scalable Differentiable for mRNA Design

R Krueger, M Ward - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
mRNA is an emerging therapeutic platform with applications ranging from vaccines to
genome editing. However, there are an exponential number of mRNA sequences to deliver …