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RNA Target Prediction Methods
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RNA Target Prediction Methods

A special issue of Genes (ISSN 2073-4425). This special issue belongs to the section "Technologies and Resources for Genetics".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2019) | Viewed by 10141

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Stefania Bortoluzzi

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Department of Molecular Medicine, University of Padova, Padua, Italy
Interests: cancer genomics and transcriptomics; bioinformatics; systems biology; microRNAs; circular RNAs
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Dr. Enrico Gaffo

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Department of Molecular Medicine, University of Padova, 35122 Padua, Italy
Interests: bioinformatics; transcriptomics; regulatory networks; circular RNAs; small RNAs; exosomes
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues, 

Beyond their informational roles, RNAs play a wide range of functions in a variety of cellular processes and in disease mechanisms, mediated by the recognition and binding of target molecules. By base-pairing with DNA or other RNAs, RNAs regulate an array of processes through direct interactions, such as those involving the high pleiotropic microRNAs, and via competition or decoy functions, also in complex networks. Moreover, key to the function of many RNAs is their binding to proteins by sequence or folding motifs. Thousands of noncoding RNAs have been uncovered in the NGS era and the recent findings on circular RNAs further expanded the field. However, for many of these RNAs, the functions are still unknown, calling for an improved definition of RNAs’ interactions by experimental studies, high-throughput methods, and bioinformatic approaches. Far from being an easy task, the prediction of RNA targets represents a turning point in most research projects, since it allows the prioritization of RNAs for functional experimental study. A series of computational and methodological challenges are set by the complexity of RNA biology.

This Special Issue is dedicated to all the aspects of RNA target prediction with a focus on, but not limited to, computational methods, software, and resources. We welcome submissions of reviews, research articles, short communications, and “concept papers”.

Prof. Dr. Stefania Bortoluzzi
Dr. Enrico Gaffo
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • RNA function prediction
  • RNA–RNA interactions
  • microRNA targeting
  • RNA–protein binding
  • RNA fold
  • RNA motifs
  • circular RNAs
  • bioinformatics
  • high-throughput data

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Prediction of Long Non-Coding RNAs Based on Deep Learning
by Xiu-Qin Liu, Bing-Xiu Li, Guan-Rong Zeng, Qiao-Yue Liu and Dong-Mei Ai
Genes 2019, 10(4), 273; https://doi.org/10.3390/genes10040273 - 03 Apr 2019
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With the rapid development of high-throughput sequencing technology, a large number of transcript sequences have been discovered, and how to identify long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) from transcripts is a challenging task. The identification and inclusion of lncRNAs not only can more clearly help [...] Read more.
With the rapid development of high-throughput sequencing technology, a large number of transcript sequences have been discovered, and how to identify long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) from transcripts is a challenging task. The identification and inclusion of lncRNAs not only can more clearly help us to understand life activities themselves, but can also help humans further explore and study the disease at the molecular level. At present, the detection of lncRNAs mainly includes two forms of calculation and experiment. Due to the limitations of bio sequencing technology and ineluctable errors in sequencing processes, the detection effect of these methods is not very satisfactory. In this paper, we constructed a deep-learning model to effectively distinguish lncRNAs from mRNAs. We used k-mer embedding vectors obtained through training the GloVe algorithm as input features and set up the deep learning framework to include a bidirectional long short-term memory model (BLSTM) layer and a convolutional neural network (CNN) layer with three additional hidden layers. By testing our model, we have found that it obtained the best values of 97.9%, 96.4% and 99.0% in F1score, accuracy and auROC, respectively, which showed better classification performance than the traditional PLEK, CNCI and CPC methods for identifying lncRNAs. We hope that our model will provide effective help in distinguishing mature mRNAs from lncRNAs, and become a potential tool to help humans understand and detect the diseases associated with lncRNAs. Full article
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Integration of Bioinformatic Predictions and Experimental Data to Identify circRNA-miRNA Associations
by Martina Dori and Silvio Bicciato
Genes 2019, 10(9), 642; https://doi.org/10.3390/genes10090642 - 24 Aug 2019
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Circular RNAs (circRNAs) have recently emerged as a novel class of transcripts, characterized by covalently linked 3′–5′ ends that result in the so-called backsplice junction. During the last few years, thousands of circRNAs have been identified in different organisms. Yet, despite their role [...] Read more.
Circular RNAs (circRNAs) have recently emerged as a novel class of transcripts, characterized by covalently linked 3′–5′ ends that result in the so-called backsplice junction. During the last few years, thousands of circRNAs have been identified in different organisms. Yet, despite their role as disease biomarker started to emerge, depicting their function remains challenging. Different studies have shown that certain circRNAs act as miRNA sponges, but any attempt to generalize from the single case to the “circ-ome” has failed so far. In this review, we explore the potential to define miRNA “sponging” as a more general function of circRNAs and describe the different approaches to predict miRNA response elements (MREs) in known or novel circRNA sequences. Moreover, we discuss how experiments based on Ago2-IP and experimentally validated miRNA:target duplexes can be used to either prioritize or validate putative miRNA-circRNA associations. Full article
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