Nucleic Acids Research Advance Access originally published online on May 21, 2008
Nucleic Acids Research 2008 36(Web Server issue):W91-W96; doi:10.1093/nar/gkn258
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Nucleic Acids Research, 2008, Vol. 36, No. suppl_2 W91-W96
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RNALogo: a new approach to display structural RNA alignment
1Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, 2Department of Life Science, National Central University, Chung-Li 320, 3Institute of Bioinformatics and 4Department of Biological Science and Technology, National Chiao Tung University, Hsin-Chu 300, Taiwan
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Received February 19, 2008. Revised April 7, 2008. Accepted April 20, 2008.
Regulatory RNAs play essential roles in many essential biological processes, ranging from gene regulation to protein synthesis. This work presents a web-based tool, RNALogo, to create a new graphical representation of the patterns in a multiple RNA sequence alignment with a consensus structure. The RNALogo graph can indicate significant features within an RNA sequence alignment and its consensus RNA secondary structure. RNALogo extends Sequence logos, and specifically incorporates RNA secondary structures and mutual information of base-paired regions into the graphical representation. Each RNALogo graph is composed of stacks of letters, with one stack for each position in the consensus RNA secondary structure. RNALogo provides a convenient and high configurable logo generator. An RNALogo graph is generated for each RNA family in Rfam, and these generated logos are accumulated into a gallery of RNALogo. Users can search or browse RNALogo graphs in this gallery to receive additional perspectives of known RNA families. RNALogo is now available at: http://rnalogo.mbc.nctu.edu.tw/.
The authors wish it to be known that, in their opinion, the first two authors should be regarded as joint First Authors
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