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Professor
Harvard University

Title: Computational analysis of RNA structure and function

Abstract: Many functional RNAs have evolutionarily conserved secondary structures, and conserved RNA base pairing induces pairwise sequence correlations between the interacting positions in RNA multiple sequence alignments. This distinctive statistical signal can be exploited in many kinds of comparative genome sequence analysis of structural RNAs, including structure-based homology searches, RNA sequence alignment, consensus RNA structure prediction, and computational genomic screens for new RNAs.

Host: Molly Przeworski