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Optimisation Problems for Pairwise RNA Sequence and Structure Comparison: A Brief Survey

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Transactions on Computational Intelligence XIII

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science ((TCCI,volume 8342))

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RNA molecules play major roles in all cell processes, and therefore have been subject to a great attention by biologists, biochemists and bioinformaticians in the recent years. From a computational optimization point of view, two interrelated major issues are on one hand the problem of structure prediction, and the problem of comparing two or several RNA sequences or structures. We present a brief survey of the latter, its variants, its computational complexity issues, and optimization algorithms that have been developed up to now.

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Denise, A., Rinaudo, P. (2014). Optimisation Problems for Pairwise RNA Sequence and Structure Comparison: A Brief Survey. In: Nguyen, NT., Le-Thi, H.A. (eds) Transactions on Computational Intelligence XIII. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8342. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-54455-2_3

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