PMID:18477632
| Citation |
Tjaden, B (2008) TargetRNA: a tool for predicting targets of small RNA action in bacteria. Nucleic Acids Res. 36:W109-13 |
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| Abstract |
Many small RNA (sRNA) genes in bacteria act as posttranscriptional regulators of target messenger RNAs. Here, we present TargetRNA, a web tool for predicting mRNA targets of sRNA action in bacteria. TargetRNA takes as input a genomic sequence that may correspond to an sRNA gene. TargetRNA then uses a dynamic programming algorithm to search each annotated message in a specified genome for mRNAs that evince basepair-binding potential to the input sRNA sequence. Based on the calculated basepair-binding potential of each message with the given sRNA regulator, TargetRNA outputs a ranked list of candidate mRNA targets along with the predicted basepairing interaction of each target to the sRNA. The predictive performance of TargetRNA has been validated experimentally in several bacterial organisms. TargetRNA is freely available at http://snowwhite.wellesley.edu/targetRNA. |
| Links |
PubMed PMC2447797 Online version:10.1093/nar/gkn264 |
| Keywords |
Algorithms; Base Pairing; Genomics; Internet; RNA, Bacterial/chemistry; RNA, Messenger/chemistry; RNA, Untranslated/chemistry; Sequence Analysis, RNA; Software |
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