By performing a comprehensive study on 1832 segments of 1212 complete genomes of viruses, we show that in viral genomes the hairpin structures of thermodynamically predicted RNA secondary structures are more abundant than expected under a simple random null hypothesis. The detected hairpin structures of RNA secondary structures are present both in coding and in noncoding regions for the four gr...

IV BSB 4 Favor ver os Anais do Simpósio em Springer Verlag, Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics (LNBI número 3594) para este trabalho.

Computationally identifying non-coding RNA regions on the genome has much attention to be investigated. However, it is essentially harder than gene-finding problems for protein-coding regions because non-coding RNA sequences do not have a strong statistical signals. Since comparative sequence analysis is effective for non-coding RNA detection, efficient computational methods are expected for st...

The non-coding RNAs are new players in cellular and molecular biology. Indeed, quantitative and functional non-coding RNA has long been underestimated. There is a great diversity and it seems that much of the genome is transcribed into RNA, while only 1.2% of DNA information is translated into proteins. Non-coding RNA has been categorized according to different specifications so large non-codin...