Title
An enhanced computational platform for investigating the roles of regulatory RNA and for identifying functional RNA motifs.
Abstract
Functional RNA molecules participate in numerous biological processes, ranging from gene regulation to protein synthesis. Analysis of functional RNA motifs and elements in RNA sequences can obtain useful information for deciphering RNA regulatory mechanisms. Our previous work, RegRNA, is widely used in the identification of regulatory motifs, and this work extends it by incorporating more comprehensive and updated data sources and analytical approaches into a new platform.An integrated web-based system, RegRNA 2.0, has been developed for comprehensively identifying the functional RNA motifs and sites in an input RNA sequence. Numerous data sources and analytical approaches are integrated, and several types of functional RNA motifs and sites can be identified by RegRNA 2.0: (i) splicing donor/acceptor sites; (ii) splicing regulatory motifs; (iii) polyadenylation sites; (iv) ribosome binding sites; (v) rho-independent terminator; (vi) motifs in mRNA 5'-untranslated region (5'UTR) and 3'UTR; (vii) AU-rich elements; (viii) C-to-U editing sites; (ix) riboswitches; (x) RNA cis-regulatory elements; (xi) transcriptional regulatory motifs; (xii) user-defined motifs; (xiii) similar functional RNA sequences; (xiv) microRNA target sites; (xv) non-coding RNA hybridization sites; (xvi) long stems; (xvii) open reading frames; (xviii) related information of an RNA sequence. User can submit an RNA sequence and obtain the predictive results through RegRNA 2.0 web page.RegRNA 2.0 is an easy to use web server for identifying regulatory RNA motifs and functional sites. Through its integrated user-friendly interface, user is capable of using various analytical approaches and observing results with graphical visualization conveniently. RegRNA 2.0 is now available at http://regrna2.mbc.nctu.edu.tw.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1186/1471-2105-14-S2-S4
BMC Bioinformatics
Keywords
Field
DocType
gene expression regulation,internet,algorithms,bioinformatics,computer graphics,microarrays
RNA,Biology,Protein biosynthesis,Regulation of gene expression,Nucleotide Motif,Bioinformatics,Computational biology,Non-coding RNA,DNA microarray
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
14 Suppl 2
S-2
1471-2105
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
9
0.41
19
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Tzu-Hao Chang114511.92
Hsi-Yuan Huang21538.27
Justin Bo-Kai Hsu31086.69
Shun-Long Weng41326.40
Jorng-Tzong Horng554167.78
Hsien-Da Huang683563.83