Abstract
Interaction between two RNA molecules plays a crucial role in many medical and biological processes such as gene expression regulation. In this process, an RNA molecule prohibits the translation of another RNA molecule by establishing stable interactions with it. Some algorithms have been formed to predict the structure of the RNA–RNA interaction. High computational time is a common challenge in most of the presented algorithms. In this context, a heuristic method is introduced to accurately predict the interaction between two RNAs based on minimum free energy (MFE). This algorithm uses a few dot matrices for finding the secondary structure of each RNA and binding sites between two RNAs. Furthermore, a parallel version of this method is presented. We describe the algorithm’s concurrency and parallelism for a multicore chip. The proposed algorithm has been performed on some datasets including CopA-CopT, R1inv-R2inv, Tar-Tar*, DIS-DIS, and IncRNA54-RepZ in Escherichia coli bacteria. The method has high validity and efficiency, and it is run in low computational time in comparison to other approaches.
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Special thanks to Professor Fatemeh Zare-Mirakabad and Nasrollah Moghadam-charkari for their valuable consultancy in improving this work.
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Montaseri, S. (2015). Fast Prediction of RNA–RNA Interaction Using Heuristic Algorithm. In: Picardi, E. (eds) RNA Bioinformatics. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 1269. Humana Press, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-2291-8_7
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