Abstract
Like protein coding sequences, functional motifs in RNA elements are frequently conserved, but this conservation is most often at the structure level rather than sequence based. Proper characterization of these structural RNA motifs is both the key and the limiting step to understanding the nature of RNA–protein interactions. The discovery of elements targeted by RNA-binding proteins and how they function remains one of the most active, yet elusive areas of RNA biology. Only a limited number of these elements have been well characterized with many of the fundamental rules yet to be discovered. Here we present a comprehensive list of web based resources that can be used in the study and identification of RNA-based structural and regulatory motifs and provide a survey of the informatic resources that can have been developed to facilitate this research.
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We wish to thank the members of the Tenenbaum Lab for helpful suggestions and discussion, especially Chris Zaleski and Frank Doyle. This work was supported in part by NIH grant U01HG004571 to SAT from the NHGRI.
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George, A.D., Tenenbaum, S.A. (2011). Web-Based Tools for Studying RNA Structure and Function. In: Nielsen, H. (eds) RNA. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 703. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59745-248-9_6
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