Automated band annotation for RNA structure probing experiments with numerous capillary electrophoresis profiles.

ABSTRACT:

Motivation

Capillary electrophoresis (CE) is a powerful approach for structural analysis of nucleic acids, with recent high-throughput variants enabling three-dimensional RNA modeling and the discovery of new rules for RNA structure design. Among the steps composing CE analysis, the process of finding each band in an electrophoretic trace and mapping it to a position in the nucleic acid sequence has required significant manual inspection and remains the most time-consuming and error-prone step. The few available tools seeking to automate this band annotation have achieved limited accuracy and have not taken advantage of information across dozens of profiles routinely acquired in high-throughput measurements.

Results

We present a dynamic-programming-based approach to automate

SUBMITTER: Lee S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4560050 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature