Evaluate structure hypothesis

Hypotheses about an RNA structure can be tested using CLC Genomics Workbench. A structure hypothesis H is formulated using the structural constraint annotations described in Specifying structure constraints. By adding several annotations complex structural hypotheses can be formulated (see 23.21).

Given the set S of all possible structures, only a subset of these $ S_H$ will comply with the formulated hypotheses. We can now find the probability of H as:

$\displaystyle P(H) = \frac{\displaystyle\sum_{{s_H} \in {S_H}}{P(s_H)}}{\displaystyle\sum_{s \in S}{P(s)}} = \frac{PF_{H}}{PF_{{\rm {full}}}},$

where $ PF_{H}$ is the partition function calculated for all structures permissible by H $ (S_H)$ and $ PF_{\rm {full}}$ is the full partition function. Calculating the probability can thus be done with two passes of the partition function calculation, one with structural constraints, and one without. 23.21.

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Figure 23.21: Two constraints defining a structural hypothesis.


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