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NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH
卷 39, 期 16, 页码 6886-6895出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkr335
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- Centre de Regulacio Genomica (CRG)
- Plan Nacional [BFU2008-00419]
- 'La Caixa' international PhD program fellowships
- Swiss National Research Foundation [205321103973]
- European Commission [KBBE-2A-222664]
We present and validate BlastR, a method for efficiently and accurately searching non-coding RNAs. Our approach relies on the comparison of di-nucleotides using BlosumR, a new log-odd substitution matrix. In order to use BlosumR for comparison, we recoded RNA sequences into protein-like sequences. We then showed that BlosumR can be used along with the BlastP algorithm in order to search non-coding RNA sequences. Using Rfam as a gold standard, we benchmarked this approach and show BlastR to be more sensitive than BlastN. We also show that BlastR is both faster and more sensitive than BlastP used with a single nucleotide log-odd substitution matrix. BlastR, when used in combination with WU-BlastP, is about 5% more accurate than WU-BlastN and about 50 times slower. The approach shown here is equally effective when combined with the NCBI-Blast package. The software is an open source freeware available from www.tcoffee.org/blastr.html.
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