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. 2023:2586:263-285.
doi: 10.1007/978-1-0716-2768-6_16.

RNA 3D Structure Comparison Using RNA-Puzzles Toolkit

Marcin Magnus  1 , Zhichao Miao  2   3
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RNA 3D Structure Comparison Using RNA-Puzzles Toolkit

Marcin Magnus et al. Methods Mol Biol. 2023.

Abstract

Computational modeling of RNA three-dimensional (3D) structure may help in unrevealing the molecular mechanisms of RNA molecules and in designing molecules with novel functions. An unbiased blind assessment to benchmark the computational modeling is required to understand the achievements and bottlenecks of the prediction, while a standard structure comparison protocol is necessary. RNA-Puzzles is a community-wide effort on the assessment of blind prediction of RNA tertiary structures. And RNA-Puzzles toolkit is a computational resource derived from RNA-Puzzles, which includes (i) decoy sets generated by different RNA 3D structure prediction methods; (ii) 3D structure normalization, analysis, manipulation, and visualization tools; and (iii) 3D structure comparison metric tools. In this chapter, we illustrate a standard RNA 3D structure prediction assessment protocol using the selected tools from RNA-Puzzles toolkit: rna-tools and RNA_assessment.

Keywords: Base pair; RNA 3D structure prediction; RNA-Puzzles; Structure comparison.

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