Title
Predicting RNA distance-based contact maps by integrated deep learning on physics-inferred secondary structure and evolutionary-derived mutational coupling
Abstract
Motivation: Recently, AlphaFold2 achieved high experimental accuracy for the majority of proteins in Critical Assessment of Structure Prediction (CASP 14). This raises the hope that one day, we may achieve the same feat for RNA structure prediction for those structured RNAs, which is as fundamentally and practically important similar to protein structure prediction. One major factor in the recent advancement of protein structure prediction is the highly accurate prediction of distance-based contact maps of proteins. Results: Here, we showed that by integrated deep learning with physics-inferred secondary structures, co-evolutionary information and multiple sequence-alignment sampling, we can achieve RNA contact-map prediction at a level of accuracy similar to that in protein contact-map prediction. More importantly, highly accurate prediction for top L long-range contacts can be assured for those RNAs with a high effective number of homologous sequences (N-eff > 50). The initial use of the predicted contact map as distance-based restraints confirmed its usefulness in 3D structure prediction.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1093/bioinformatics/btac421
BIOINFORMATICS
DocType
Volume
Issue
Journal
38
16
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1367-4803
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jaswinder Singh100.68
Kuldip K. Paliwal21890154.90
Thomas Litfin3123.54
Jaspreet Singh402.70
Yaoqi Zhou51098.72