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RNAinverse 2.6.4

Find RNA sequences with given secondary structure

The program searches for sequences folding into a predefined structure, thereby inverting the folding algorithm. Target structures (in bracket notation) and starting sequences for the search are read alternately from stdin. Characters in the start sequence other than "AUGC" (or the alphabet specified with -a) will be treated as wild cards and replaced by a random character. Any lower case characters in the start sequence will be kept fixed during the search. If necessary, the sequence will be elongated to the length of the structure. Thus a string of "N"s as well as a blank line specify a random start sequence. For each search the best sequence found and its Hamming distance to the start sequence are printed to stdout. If the the search was unsuccessful, a structure distance to the target is appended. The -Fp and -R options can modify the output format, see commandline options below. The program will continue to read new structures and sequences until a line consisting of the single character "@" or an end of file condition is encountered.

Print help and exit
Print help, including all details and hidden options, and exit
Print help, including hidden options, and exit
Print version and exit
In conjunction with a negative value supplied to -R, print the last subsequence and substructure for each unsuccessful search.
(default=off)

Select additional algorithms which should be included in the calculations.
Use minimum energy (-Fm), partition function folding (-Fp) or both (-Fmp).
(default=`m')
In partition function mode, the probability of the target structure exp(-E(S)/kT)/Q is maximized. This probability is written in brackets after the found sequence and Hamming distance. In most cases you'll want to use the -f option in conjunction with -Fp, see below.
In combination with -Fp stop search when sequence is found with E(s)-F is smaller than final, where F=-kT*ln(Q).
Search repeatedly for the same structure. If an argument is supplied to this option it must follow the option flag immediately. E.g.: -R5
(default=`1')
If repeats is negative search until --repeats exact solutions are found, no output is done for unsuccessful searches. Be aware, that the program will not terminate if the target structure can not be found. If no value is supplied with this option, the default value is used.
Find sequences using only nucleotides from a given alphabet.

Energy parameter sets can be adapted or loaded from user-provided input files
Rescale energy parameters to a temperature of temp C. Default is 37C.
(default=`37.0')
Read energy parameters from paramfile, instead of using the default parameter set.
Different sets of energy parameters for RNA and DNA should accompany your distribution. See the RNAlib documentation for details on the file format. When passing the placeholder file name "DNA", DNA parameters are loaded without the need to actually specify any input file.
-4, --noTetra
Do not include special tabulated stabilizing energies for tri-, tetra- and hexaloop hairpins.
(default=off)
Mostly for testing.
Set salt concentration in molar (M). Default is 1.021M.

Tweak the energy model and pairing rules additionally using the following parameters
How to treat "dangling end" energies for bases adjacent to helices in free ends and multi-loops
(default=`2')
With -d1 only unpaired bases can participate in at most one dangling end. With -d2 this check is ignored, dangling energies will be added for the bases adjacent to a helix on both sides in any case; this is the default for mfe and partition function folding (-p). The option -d0 ignores dangling ends altogether (mostly for debugging). With -d3 mfe folding will allow coaxial stacking of adjacent helices in multi-loops. At the moment the implementation will not allow coaxial stacking of the two interior pairs in a loop of degree 3 and works only for mfe folding.
Note that with -d1 and -d3 only the MFE computations will be using this setting while partition function uses -d2 setting, i.e. dangling ends will be treated differently.
Do not allow GU pairs.
(default=off)
Do not allow GU pairs at the end of helices.
(default=off)
Allow other pairs in addition to the usual AU,GC,and GU pairs.
Its argument is a comma separated list of additionally allowed pairs. If the first character is a "-" then AB will imply that AB and BA are allowed pairs. e.g. RNAfold -nsp -GA will allow GA and AG pairs. Nonstandard pairs are given 0 stacking energy.
Set energy model.
Rarely used option to fold sequences from the artificial ABCD... alphabet, where A pairs B, C-D etc. Use the energy parameters for GC (-e 1) or AU (-e 2) pairs.
Set the helical rise of the helix in units of Angstrom.
(default=`2.8')
Use with caution! This value will be re-set automatically to 3.4 in case DNA parameters are loaded via -P DNA and no further value is provided.
Set the average backbone length for looped regions in units of Angstrom.
(default=`6.0')
Use with caution! This value will be re-set automatically to 6.76 in case DNA parameters are loaded via -P DNA and no further value is provided.

If you use this program in your work you might want to cite:

R. Lorenz, S.H. Bernhart, C. Hoener zu Siederdissen, H. Tafer, C. Flamm, P.F. Stadler and I.L. Hofacker (2011), "ViennaRNA Package 2.0", Algorithms for Molecular Biology: 6:26

I.L. Hofacker, W. Fontana, P.F. Stadler, S. Bonhoeffer, M. Tacker, P. Schuster (1994), "Fast Folding and Comparison of RNA Secondary Structures", Monatshefte f. Chemie: 125, pp 167-188

R. Lorenz, I.L. Hofacker, P.F. Stadler (2016), "RNA folding with hard and soft constraints", Algorithms for Molecular Biology 11:1 pp 1-13

D.H. Turner, N. Sugimoto, S.M. Freier (1988), "RNA structure prediction", Ann Rev Biophys Biophys Chem: 17, pp 167-192

M. Zuker, P. Stiegler (1981), "Optimal computer folding of large RNA sequences using thermodynamic and auxiliary information", Nucl Acid Res: 9, pp 133-148

J.S. McCaskill (1990), "The equilibrium partition function and base pair binding probabilities for RNA secondary structures", Biopolymers: 29, pp 1105-1119

The energy parameters are taken from:

D.H. Mathews, M.D. Disney, D. Matthew, J.L. Childs, S.J. Schroeder, J. Susan, M. Zuker, D.H. Turner (2004), "Incorporating chemical modification constraints into a dynamic programming algorithm for prediction of RNA secondary structure", Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA: 101, pp 7287-7292

D.H Turner, D.H. Mathews (2009), "NNDB: The nearest neighbor parameter database for predicting stability of nucleic acid secondary structure", Nucleic Acids Research: 38, pp 280-282

To search 5 times for sequences forming a simple hairpin structure interrupted by one GA mismatch call

  $ RNAinverse -R 5

and enter the lines

  (((.(((....))).)))
  NNNgNNNNNNNNNNaNNN

Ivo L Hofacker

If in doubt our program is right, nature is at fault. Comments should be sent to rna@tbi.univie.ac.at.

January 2025 RNAinverse 2.6.4