Instruct: Identify the main category of Biorxiv papers based on the titles and abstracts
Query: sRNARFTarget: A fast machine-learning-based approach for transcriptome-wide sRNA Target Prediction Bacterial small regulatory RNAs (sRNAs) are key regulators of gene expression in many processes related to adaptive responses. A multitude of sRNAs have been identified in many bacterial species; however, their function has yet to be elucidated. A key step to understand sRNAs function is to identify the mRNAs these sRNAs bind to. There are several computational methods for sRNA target prediction, and the most accurate one is CopraRNA which is based on comparative-genomics. However, species-specific sRNAs are quite common and CopraRNA cannot be used for these sRNAs. The most commonly used transcriptome-wide sRNA target prediction method and second-most-accurate method is IntaRNA. However, IntaRNA can take hours to run on a bacterial transcriptome. Here we present sRNARFTarget, a machine-learning-based method for transcriptome-wide sRNA target prediction applicable to any sRNA. We comparatively assessed the performance of sRNARFTarget, CopraRNA and IntaRNA in three bacterial species. Our results show that sRNARFTarget outperforms IntaRNA in terms of accuracy, ranking of true interacting pairs, and running time. However, CopraRNA substantially outperforms the other two programs in terms of accuracy. Thus, we suggest using CopraRNA when homolog sequences of the sRNA are available, and sRNARFTarget for transcriptome-wide prediction or for species-specific sRNAs. sRNARFTarget is available at https://github.com/BioinformaticsLabAtMUN/sRNARFTarget.
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The categories of this paper are: evolutionary
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The categories of this paper are: molecular
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The categories of this paper are: genomics