| Literature DB >> 27819659 |
Elena Rivas1, Jody Clements2, Sean R Eddy1,3,4,5.
Abstract
Many functional RNAs have an evolutionarily conserved secondary structure. Conservation of RNA base pairing induces pairwise covariations in sequence alignments. We developed a computational method, R-scape (RNA Structural Covariation Above Phylogenetic Expectation), that quantitatively tests whether covariation analysis supports the presence of a conserved RNA secondary structure. R-scape analysis finds no statistically significant support for proposed secondary structures of the long noncoding RNAs HOTAIR, SRA, and Xist.Entities:
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Year: 2016 PMID: 27819659 PMCID: PMC5554622 DOI: 10.1038/nmeth.4066
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Nat Methods ISSN: 1548-7091 Impact factor: 28.547