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RNA structure prediction is hard. How much does that matter?

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Re: RNA structure prediction is hard. How much does that matter?

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My rotation project in the Church lab was on structure prediction for bacterial T-box riboswitches (the goal was to classify which tRNA was recognized by the riboswitch; fortunately we only needed to predict the secondary structure for this goal). Even these were rather difficult to model. We looked into deep learning methods but ended up going with a HMM approach due to lack of structural data. And of course, these are ribo switches, which change structure upon ligand binding.

So it's very cool to see the progress that has been made since 2020.

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