RNAshapes: an integrated RNA analysis package based on abstract shapes
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- 15 December 2005
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Bioinformatics
- Vol. 22 (4) , 500-503
- https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btk010
Abstract
Summary: We introduce RNAshapes, a new software package that integrates three RNA analysis tools based on the abstract shapes approach: the analysis of shape representatives, the calculation of shape probabilities and the consensus shapes approach. This new package is completely reimplemented in C and outruns the original implementations significantly in runtime and memory requirements. Additionally, we added a number of useful features like suboptimal folding with correct dangling energies, structure graph output, shape matching and a sliding window approach. Availability: RNAshapes is freely available at Author Webpage as C source code, and as compiled binaries for the most common computer architectures. For Microsoft Windows, we also offer a graphical user interface with convenient access to the complete functionality of the package. Contact:psteffen@techfak.uni-bielefeld.deKeywords
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