Affiliation:
1. Institute of Computing Science, Poznan University of Technology , Piotrowo 2, 60-965 Poznan , Poland
2. Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences , Noskowskiego 12/14, 61-704 Poznan , Poland
Abstract
Abstract
Since the 1980s, dozens of computational methods have addressed the problem of predicting RNA secondary structure. Among them are those that follow standard optimization approaches and, more recently, machine learning (ML) algorithms. The former were repeatedly benchmarked on various datasets. The latter, on the other hand, have not yet undergone extensive analysis that could suggest to the user which algorithm best fits the problem to be solved. In this review, we compare 15 methods that predict the secondary structure of RNA, of which 6 are based on deep learning (DL), 3 on shallow learning (SL) and 6 control methods on non-ML approaches. We discuss the ML strategies implemented and perform three experiments in which we evaluate the prediction of (I) representatives of the RNA equivalence classes, (II) selected Rfam sequences and (III) RNAs from new Rfam families. We show that DL-based algorithms (such as SPOT-RNA and UFold) can outperform SL and traditional methods if the data distribution is similar in the training and testing set. However, when predicting 2D structures for new RNA families, the advantage of DL is no longer clear, and its performance is inferior or equal to that of SL and non-ML methods.
Publisher
Oxford University Press (OUP)
Subject
Molecular Biology,Information Systems
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