SICOR: Subgraph Isomorphism Comparison of RNA Secondary Structures
- Resource Type
- Periodical
- Authors
- Schmidt, M.; Hamacher, K.; Reinhardt, F.; Lotz, T.S.; Groher, F.; Suess, B.; Jager, S.
- Source
- IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics IEEE/ACM Trans. Comput. Biol. and Bioinf. Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, IEEE/ACM Transactions on. 17(6):2189-2195 Jan, 2020
- Subject
- Bioengineering
Computing and Processing
RNA
Transmission line matrix methods
Probabilistic logic
Measurement
Protocols
Forestry
RNA structure comparison
subgraph isomorphism
SELEX
aptamers
- Language
- ISSN
- 1545-5963
1557-9964
2374-0043
RNA aptamer selection during SELEX experiments builds on secondary structural diversity. Advanced structural comparison methods can focus this diversity. We develop SICOR, which uses probabilistic subgraph isomorphisms for graph distances between RNA secondary structure graphs. SICOR outperforms other comparison methods and is applicable to many structural comparisons in experimental design.