• DocumentCode
    3074095
  • Title

    A Practical Edit-Distance Model for RNA Secondary-Structure Comparison

  • Author

    Wu, Chan-Shuo ; Huang, Guan-Shieng

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Inf. Eng., Nat. Chi Nan Univ., Nantou, Taiwan
  • fYear
    2009
  • fDate
    22-24 June 2009
  • Firstpage
    176
  • Lastpage
    183
  • Abstract
    We point out the importance to incorporate affine-gap penalties in RNA secondary-structure comparison. Two notions of affine-gap penalties, one for sequences and the other for structures, are developed. A model from Jiang et al. in [JComput Biol, 2002, 9, (2), pp. 371-388] is extended to allow this facility, and a polynomial-time algorithm is provided in this paper. Experimental results in this paper revealed that our new model generates more accurate and biological meaningful alignments than several existing algorithms.
  • Keywords
    bioinformatics; macromolecules; molecular biophysics; polynomials; RNA secondary-structure comparison; affine-gap penalty; data representation; edit-distance model; polynomial-time algorithm; Bioinformatics; Biological system modeling; Biology computing; Biomedical computing; Biomedical engineering; Computer science; Costs; Polynomials; RNA; Tree data structures;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Bioinformatics and BioEngineering, 2009. BIBE '09. Ninth IEEE International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Taichung
  • Print_ISBN
    978-0-7695-3656-9
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/BIBE.2009.27
  • Filename
    5211289