Comparative genomics identifies thousands of candidate structured RNAs in human microbiomes.
Brayon J FreminAmi Siddharth BhattPublished in: Genome biology (2021)
This approach identifies a wide variety of candidate structured RNAs, including tmRNAs, antitoxins, and likely ribosome protein leaders, from a wide variety of taxa. Overall, our pipeline enables conservative predictions of thousands of novel candidate structured RNAs from human microbiomes.