Title
RNAz 2.0: Improved Noncoding RNA Detection.
Abstract
RNAz is a widely used software package for de novo detection of structured noncoding RNAs in comparative genomics data. Four years of experience have not only demonstrated the applicability of the approach, but also helped us to identify limitations of the current implementation. RNAz 2.0 provides significant improvements in two respects: (1) The accuracy is increased by the systematic use of dinucleotide models. (2) Technical limitations of the previous version, such as the inability to handle alignments with more than six sequences, are overcome by increased training data and the usage of an entropy measure to represent sequence similarities. RNAz 2.0 shows a significantly lower false discovery rate on a dinucleotide background model than the previous version. Separate models for structural alignments provide an additional way to increase the predictive power. RNAz is open source software and can be obtained free of charge at: http://www.thi.univie.an.ati-wash/RNAz/
Year
Venue
Keywords
2010
Biocomputing-Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing
RNA structure,noncoding RNA,structure conservation,comparative genomics,gene prediction
Field
DocType
ISSN
Training set,False discovery rate,Biology,Comparative genomics,Software,Bioinformatics,Genetics,Open source software,Non-coding RNA
Conference
2335-6936
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
19
0.96
0
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Andreas R. Gruber11968.45
Sven Findeiß2774.67
Stefan Washietl329219.82
Ivo L. Hofacker41669131.57
Peter F. Stadler51839152.96