RNA Flexibility Prediction With Sequence Profile and Predicted Solvent Accessibility

IEEE/ACM Trans Comput Biol Bioinform. 2021 Sep-Oct;18(5):2017-2022. doi: 10.1109/TCBB.2019.2956496. Epub 2021 Oct 7.

Abstract

Structural flexibility plays an essential role in many biological processes. B-factor is an important indicator to measure the flexibility of protein or RNA structures. Many methods were developed to predict protein B-factors, but few studies have been done for RNA B-factor prediction. In this paper, we proposed a new method RNAbval to predict RNA B-factors using random forest. The method was developed using a comprehensive set of features, including the sequence profile and predicted solvent accessibility. RNAbval achieved an improvement of 9.2-20.5 percent over the state-of-the-art method on two benchmark test datasets. The proposed method is available at http://yanglab.nankai.edu.cn/RNAbval/.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Computational Biology / methods*
  • Crystallography, X-Ray
  • Machine Learning
  • Pliability
  • Proteins / chemistry
  • Proteins / metabolism
  • RNA* / chemistry
  • RNA* / genetics
  • RNA* / metabolism
  • Sequence Analysis, RNA / methods*
  • Solvents / chemistry
  • Solvents / metabolism

Substances

  • Proteins
  • Solvents
  • RNA