Exact matching of RNA secondary structure patterns

  • Authors:
  • Ying Xu;Lusheng Wang;Hao Zhao;Jianping Li

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong, 83 Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China and Computer Science Department, Stanford University;Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong, 83 Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China;Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong, 83 Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China;Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong, 83 Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China

  • Venue:
  • Theoretical Computer Science - Pattern discovery in the post genome
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

Many RNA structures are assembled from a collection of RNA motifs, which appear repeatedly and in various combinations. Identification of RNA structural motifs will enhance our understanding of RNA structures and functions. Searching for secondary structural patterns in sequence databases is the basic technique and fundamental problem for extracting and identifying such motifs. A number of algorithms and programs have been developed for this purpose.In this paper, we adopt a representation of secondary structure called secondary expressions, and present two algorithms for finding all exact matches of a given secondary expression.