title: A binary coding method of RNA secondary structure and its application.
abstract: According to the three classifications of nucleotides, we introduce a sort of binary coding method of RNA secondary structures. On the basis of this representation, we can reduce a RNA secondary structure into three binary digit sequences. We also propose coding rules based on the exclusive-OR operation. Associating with the proposed coding rules, we can judge the mutation between bases or between base and base pair, and make sequence alignment easily.
authors.affiliation: School of Computer and Communication, Hunan University, Changsha, Hunan Province 410082, China. dragonbw@163.com
authors.forename: Bo
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Liao
authors.forename: Weiyang
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Xingming
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Sun
authors.forename: Wen
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Zhu
mesh_terms: D003198:Computer Simulation; D009690:Nucleic Acid Conformation; D009711:Nucleotides / Q000737:chemistry; D012313:RNA / Q000737:chemistry*; D016415:Sequence Alignment
chemical_list: D009711:Nucleotides; D012313:RNA