RNA2Fun

RNA secondary structures and their relationship with function: application to non-coding RNAs

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This page will be updated during the project with preliminary results and materials

This page will contain links to the main publications and events that are linked to the RNA2Fun project.

Events
  • Presentation on "Automatic Classification of Units in Tandem Repeat Proteins" at 2ND ML4NGP MEETING ON MACHINE LEARNING AND NON-GLOBULAR PROTEINS, May 14-17, 2024, Thessaloniki, Greece.
  • Luca Tesei was co-chair with Michela Quadrini and Alexander Miguel Monzon of the Special Session "Computational Structural Bioinformatics" at Computational Intelligence methods for Bioinformatics and Biostatistics (CIBB2024), September 4-6, 2024, Benevento, Italy.
    • Short Paper - Margherita Matarrese, Michela Quadrini, Giulia Buonaiuto, Monica Ballarino, Letizia Chiodo and Luca Tesei. Complex ncRNAs structures: the case of MALAT1 triple helix
    • Short Paper - Michela Quadrini, Piero Hierro Canchari, Piermichele Rosati and Luca Tesei. TARNAS, a TrAnslator for RNA Secondary structure formats
  • Poster - Buonaiuto G., Simula M., Durante D., Storari G., Palma A., Laneve P., Ballarino M. NcRNA World 2024: Exploring Mechanisms, Designing Medicines, Basilea
  • Poster - Simula M, Durante D, Buonaiuto G, Storari G, Tollis P, Laneve P, Ballarino M. Long noncoding RNAs at the interface between muscles and nerves, IIM Meeting 2024, Assisi. Poster prize
  • Poster - Buonaiuto G, Storari G, Palma A, Simula M, Durante D, Laneve P , Ballarino M The nuclear lncRNA Charme plays an evolutionarily conserved role in the epigenetic regulation of muscle differentiation, SIBBM 2024, Trento. Poster prize
  • Poster - Simula M, Tollis P, Buonaiuto G, Palma A,Durante D,Storari G, Laneve P, Ballarino M. Neuromuscular interplay and lncRNAs: a synaptic liason, Regulatory & Non-Coding RNAs, CSH 2024
Editorial Activities and Publications
  • Luca Tesei and Letizia Chiodo were guest editors, together with Anže Božič of the BMC Bioinformatics Collection Prediction and modelling of RNA structure and interactions
  • Genome biology of long non-coding RNAs in humans: a virtual karyotype. Alessandro Palma, Giulia Buonaiuto, Monica Ballarino, Pietro Laneve. bioRxiv 2024.09.23.613004; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.09.23.613004
  • Desideri F, Grazzi A, Lisi M, Setti A, Santini T, Colantoni A, Proietti G, Carvelli A, Tartaglia GG, Ballarino M, Bozzoni I. CyCoNP lncRNA establishes cis and trans RNA-RNA interactions to supervise neuron physiology. Nucleic Acids Res. 2024 Sep 9;52(16):9936-9952. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkae590. PMID: 38989616; PMCID: PMC11381359
  • Alessandro Palma, Monica Ballarino. Transcriptional profiling of human brain cortex identifies novel lncRNA-mediated networks dysregulated in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis bioRxiv 2024.03.18.585481; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.03.18.585481
  • Buonaiuto G, Taliani V, Nicoletti C, Desideri F, Ballarino M. Preparation of Cardiac Extracts from Embryonal Hearts to Capture RNA-protein Interactions by CLIP. Bio Protoc. 2023 Oct 20;13(20):e4857. doi: 10.21769/BioProtoc.4857. PMID: 37900102; PMCID: PMC10603259
  • Ballarino M, Pepe G, Helmer-Citterich M, Palma A. Exploring the landscape of tools and resources for the analysis of long non-coding RNAs. Comput Struct Biotechnol J. 2023 Sep 29;21:4706-4716. doi: 10.1016/j.csbj.2023.09.041. PMID: 37841333; PMCID: PMC10568309