Nature Communications (Nov 2019)

RNA secondary structure prediction using an ensemble of two-dimensional deep neural networks and transfer learning

  • Jaswinder Singh,
  • Jack Hanson,
  • Kuldip Paliwal,
  • Yaoqi Zhou

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13395-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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The limited availability of high-resolution 3D RNA structures for model training limits RNA secondary structure prediction. Here, the authors overcome this challenge by pre-training a DNN on a large set of predicted RNA structures and using transfer learning with high-resolution structures.