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CompaRNA
A server for continuous benchmarking of automated methods for RNA structure prediction
by Tomasz Puton, Kristian Rother, Łukasz Kozłowski, Janusz M. Bujnicki
(c) 2012 Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań
(c) 2012 International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology in Warsaw
What is CompaRNA
The CompaRNA web server benchmarks freely available web servers and standalone automated methods for RNA secondary structure prediction. The aim of CompaRNA is to assess the state of the art in the field, provide a detailed picture of what is possible with the available tools, where the progress is made and what major problems remain. The results of the benchmarks and the functionality of the CompaRNA web server have been described in a publication in Nucleic Acids Research.
CompaRNA uses both PDB and RNAstrand databases to prepare benchmarking datasets. Based on them, CompaRNA calculates a set of rankings for various methods to show their performance.
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Reference RNA structures extracted weekly from the PDB database CompaRNA monitors the Protein Data Bank for the release of new RNA structures solved experimentally. The latest release of new RNA structures in the PDB database was on May 22, 2013 (49 RNA chains from 8 PDB files were extracted). CompaRNA has extracted 1016 RNA structures from the PDB database since February 18, 2009. |
