title: CARNAC: folding families of related RNAs.
abstract: We present a tool for the prediction of conserved secondary structure elements of a family of homologous non-coding RNAs. Our method does not require any prior multiple sequence alignment. Thus, it successfully applies to datasets with low primary structure similarity. The functionality is demonstrated using three example datasets: sequences of RNase P RNAs, ciliate telomerases and enterovirus messenger RNAs. CARNAC has a web server that can be accessed at the URL http://bioinfo.lifl.fr/carnac.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire d'Informatique Fondamentale de Lille, UMR CNRS 8022, Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille, France.
authors.forename: Hélène
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Touzet
authors.forename: Olivier
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Perriquet
mesh_terms: D020407:Internet; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009690:Nucleic Acid Conformation; D012313:RNA / Q000737:chemistry*; D012367:RNA, Viral / Q000737:chemistry; D043262:Ribonuclease P / Q000737:chemistry; D012689:Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid; D012984:Software; D019098:Telomerase / Q000737:chemistry
chemical_list: D012367:RNA, Viral; C422952:telomerase RNA; D012313:RNA; D019098:Telomerase; D043262:Ribonuclease P