BMC Bioinformatics

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Considerations in the identification of functional RNA structural elements in genomic alignments

Tomas Babak1,2, Benjamin J Blencowe1,2 and Timothy R Hughes1,2*

Author Affiliations

1 Banting and Best Department of Medical Research, Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research, 160 College St, Toronto, ON M5S 3E1 Canada

2 Department of Medical Genetics and Microbiology, 10 King's College Circle, Toronto, ON M1R 4F9 Canada

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BMC Bioinformatics 2007, 8:33 doi:10.1186/1471-2105-8-33

Published: 30 January 2007

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Additional File 7:

ncRNA set. Set of human, mouse, fly, worm, and yeast ncRNAs used to compile the test set.

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ncRNA alignment test set. 3046 eukaryotic ncRNA pairwise alignments.

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Shuffles pairwise alignments while preserving dinucleotides (in both sequences), base composition, gaps, and local conservation.

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Additional File 1:

Precision-recall plots for individual ncRNA classes (Supplementary Figures 1 through 8). Dependency of precision and recall on score threshold and level of conservation (as per Figure 2).

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Supplementary Table 1. Detailed results on test set for EvoFold with and without members of the EvoFold training set.

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high-scoring sequence windows from chromosome 19. Human strands shown. Some are shorter than 120 bases due to the presence of gaps in the human genome sequence.

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Extracts portions of UCSC pairwise genomic alignments. Takes as input genomic coordinates (BED file format) and alignment files and outputs alignments for coordinates where alignments exist.

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Extracts portions of UCSC multiple genomic alignments (human 8-way). Takes as input human genomic coordinates (BED file format) and alignment files and outputs alignments where possible (i.e. alignments exist).

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Script that calculates thermodynamic stability z-score using MFOLD (see Table 1).

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