Nucleic Acids Research Advance Access published online on May 8, 2007
Nucleic Acids Research, doi:10.1093/nar/gkm303
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taveRNA: a web suite for RNA algorithms and applications
1Lab for Computational Biology, SFU, Canada and 2Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington
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Received January 31, 2007. Revised April 3, 2007. Accepted April 14, 2007.
We present taveRNA, a web server package that hosts three RNA web services: alteRNA, inteRNA and pRuNA. alteRNA is a new alternative for RNA secondary structure prediction. It is based on a dynamic programming solution that minimizes the sum of energy density and free energy of an RNA structure. inteRNA is the first RNARNA interaction structure prediction web service. It also employs a dynamic programming algorithm to minimize the free energy of the resulting joint structure of the two interacting RNAs. Lastly, pRuNA is an efficient database pruning service; which given a query RNA, eliminates a significant portion of an ncRNA database and returns only a few ncRNAs as potential regulators. taveRNA is available at http://compbio.cs.sfu.ca/taverna.
The authors wish it to be known that, in their opinion, the first three authors should be regarded as joint First Authors.