title: De novo discovery of structured ncRNA motifs in genomic sequences.
abstract: De novo discovery of "motifs" capturing the commonalities among related noncoding ncRNA structured RNAs is among the most difficult problems in computational biology. This chapter outlines the challenges presented by this problem, together with some approaches towards solving them, with an emphasis on an approach based on the CMfinder CMfinder program as a case study. Applications to genomic screens for novel de novo structured ncRNA ncRNA s, including structured RNA elements in untranslated portions of protein-coding genes, are presented.
authors.affiliation: Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, 98109, USA.
authors.forename: Walter L
authors.initials: WL
authors.lastname: Ruzzo
authors.forename: Jan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Gorodkin
mesh_terms: D019295:Computational Biology / Q000379:methods*; D023281:Genomics / Q000379:methods*; D009690:Nucleic Acid Conformation; D059372:Nucleotide Motifs; D022661:RNA, Untranslated / Q000737:chemistry*; D017423:Sequence Analysis, RNA / Q000379:methods*
chemical_list: D022661:RNA, Untranslated