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NAME
RNAinverse - manual page for RNAinverse 2.7.0
SYNOPSIS
RNAinverse [OPTION]...
DESCRIPTION
RNAinverse 2.7.0
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.
-h, --help
Print help and exit
--detailed-help
Print help, including all details and hidden options, and exit
--full-help
Print help, including hidden options, and exit
-V, --version
Print version and exit
-v, --verbose
In conjunction with a negative value supplied to -R, print the last subsequence and substructure
for each unsuccessful search.
(default=off)
Lower the log level setting such that even INFO messages are passed through.
--log-level=level
Set log level threshold. (default=`2')
By default, any log messages are filtered such that only warnings (level 2) or errors (level 3)
are printed. This setting allows for specifying the log level threshold, where higher values
result in fewer information. Log-level 5 turns off all messages, even errors and other critical
information.
--log-file[=filename]
Print log messages to a file instead of stderr. (default=`RNAinverse.log')
--log-time
Include time stamp in log messages.
(default=off)
--log-call
Include file and line of log calling function.
(default=off)
Algorithms:
Select additional algorithms which should be included in the calculations.
-F, --function=mp
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.
-f, --final=FLOAT
In combination with -Fp stop search when sequence is found with E(s)-F is smaller than final,
where F=-kT*ln(Q).
-R, --repeat[=INT]
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.
-a, --alphabet=ALPHABET
Find sequences using only nucleotides from a given alphabet.
Energy Parameters:
Energy parameter sets can be adapted or loaded from user-provided input files
-T, --temp=DOUBLE
Rescale energy parameters to a temperature of temp C. Default is 37C.
(default=`37.0')
-P, --paramFile=paramfile
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.
--salt=DOUBLE
Set salt concentration in molar (M). Default is 1.021M.
Model Details:
Tweak the energy model and pairing rules additionally using the following parameters
-d, --dangles=INT
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 enclosed 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.
--noGU Do not allow GU pairs.
(default=off)
--noClosingGU
Do not allow GU pairs at the end of helices.
(default=off)
--nsp=STRING
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.
--energyModel=INT
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 (--energyModel 1) or AU (--energyModel 2) pairs.
--helical-rise=FLOAT
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.
--backbone-length=FLOAT
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.
REFERENCES
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
EXAMPLES
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
AUTHOR
Ivo L Hofacker
REPORTING BUGS
If in doubt our program is right, nature is at fault. Comments should be sent to rna@tbi.univie.ac.at.
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