Carnac 0.98 – Predict Secondary Structure for a set of Homologous RNA Sequences

Carnac 0.98

:: DESCRIPTION

Carnac is a software tool for analysing the hypothetical secondary structure of a family of homologous RNA. It aims at predicting if the sequences actually share a common secondary structure. When this structure exists, Carnac is then able to correctly recover a large amount of the folded stems. The input is a set of single-stranded RNA sequences that need not to be aligned. The folding strategy relies on a thermodynamic model with energy minimization. It combines information coming from locally conserved elements of the primary structure and mutual information between sequences with covariations too.

::DEVELOPER

Bonsai Bioinformatics – INRIA

:: SCREENSHOTS

N/A

:: REQUIREMENTS

  • Windows /  Linux / MacOsX
  • C Complier

:: DOWNLOAD

Carnac

:: MORE INFORMATION

Citation

CARNAC: folding families of related RNAs
Touzet H. and Perriquet O.
Nucl. Acids Res. (2004) 32 (suppl 2): W142-W145