19th International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management (SSDBM 2007)
Mining RNA Tertiary Motifs with Structure Graphs
Banff, Alberta, Canada
July 09-July 11
ISBN: 0-7695-2868-6
Xueyi Wang, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
Wei Wang, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
We present a novel application of graph database mining to identify tertiary motifs in RNA structures. In our method, we abstract an RNA molecule as a labeled graph and use a frequent subgraph mining technique to derive tertiary motifs. By applying our technique to ribosome RNA and transfer RNA, we have identified known RNA tertiary motifs such as the ribose zipper and U-turn, plus candidates for novel tertiary motifs. Finally, we suggest an iterative multiple structure alignment algorithm to classify tertiary motifs and generate consensus motifs.
Citation:
Xueyi Wang, Jun Huan, Jack S. Snoeyink, Wei Wang, "Mining RNA Tertiary Motifs with Structure Graphs," ssdbm, pp.31, 19th International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management (SSDBM 2007), 2007