Exact learning of RNA energy parameters from structure

Journal of Computational Biology : a Journal of Computational Molecular Cell Biology
Hamidreza Chitsaz, Mohammad Aminisharifabad

Abstract

We consider the problem of exact learning of parameters of a linear RNA energy model from secondary structure data. A necessary and sufficient condition for learnability of parameters is derived, which is based on computing the convex hull of union of translated Newton polytopes of input sequences. The set of learned energy parameters is characterized as the convex cone generated by the normal vectors to those facets of the resulting polytope that are incident to the origin. In practice, the sufficient condition may not be satisfied by the entire training data set; hence, computing a maximal subset of training data for which the sufficient condition is satisfied is often desired. We show that the problem is NP-hard in general for an arbitrary dimensional feature space. Using a randomized greedy algorithm, we select a subset of RNA STRAND v2.0 database that satisfies the sufficient condition for separate A-U, C-G, G-U base pair counting model. The set of learned energy parameters includes experimentally measured energies of A-U, C-G, and G-U pairs; hence, our parameter set is in agreement with the Turner parameters.

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BETA
X-ray
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Software Mentioned

mathop
DeclareMathSizes
RNA STRAND
GNU Octave

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