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RNADISTANCE(1) User Commands RNADISTANCE(1) NAME RNAdistance - manual page for RNAdistance 2.7.2 SYNOPSIS RNAdistance [OPTION]... DESCRIPTION RNAdistance 2.7.2 Calculate distances between RNA secondary structures This program reads RNA secondary structures from stdin and calculates one or more measures for their dissimilarity, based on tree or string editing (alignment). In addition it calculates a "base pair distance" given by the number of base pairs present in one structure, but not the other. For structures of different length base pair distance is not recommended. RNAdistance accepts structures in bracket format, where matching brackets symbolize base pairs and unpaired bases are represented by a dot '.', or coarse grained representations where hairpins, interior loops, bulges, mul- tiloops, stacks and external bases are represented by (H), (I), (B), (M), (S), and (E), respectively. These can be optionally weighted. Full struc- tures can be represented in the same fashion using the identifiers (U) and (P) for unpaired and paired bases, respectively. We call this the HIT rep- resentation (you don't want to know what this means). For example the fol- lowing structure consists of 2 hairpins joined by a multiloop: .((..(((...)))..((..)))). full structure (usual format); (U)((U2)((U3)P3)(U2)((U2)P2)P2) HIT structure; ((H)(H)M) or ((((H)S)((H)S)M)S) coarse grained structure; (((((H3)S3)((H2)S2)M4)S2)E2) weighted coarse grained. The program will continue to read new structures until a line consisting of the single character '@' or an end of file condition is encountered. Input lines neither containing a valid structure nor starting with '>' are ig- nored. -h, --help Print help and exit --detailed-help Print help, including all details and hidden options, and exit --full-help Print help, including hidden options, and exit -V, --version Print version and exit -v, --verbose Be verbose. (default=off) Lower the log level setting such that even INFO messages are passed through. -D, --distance=fhwcFHWCP Specify the distance representation to be used in calculations. (default=`f') Use the full, HIT, weighted coarse, or coarse representation to cal- culate the distance. Capital letters indicate string alignment oth- erwise tree editing is used. Any combination of distances can be- specified. -X, --compare=p|m|f|c Specify the comparison directive. (default=`p') Possible arguments for this option are: -Xp compare the structures pairwise (p), i.e. first with 2nd, third with 4th etc. -Xm calcu- late the distance matrix between all structures. The output is for- matted as a lower triangle matrix. -Xf compare each structure to the first one. -Xc compare continuously, that is i-th with (i+1)th structure. -S, --shapiro Use the Bruce Shapiro's cost matrix for comparing coarse structures. (default=off) -B, --backtrack[=<filename>] Print an "alignment" with gaps of the structures, to show matching substructures. The aligned structures are written to <filename>, if specified. (default=`none') If <filename> is not specified, the output is written to stdout, un- less the -Xm option is set in which case "backtrack.file" is used. --log-level=level Set log level threshold. (default=`2') By default, any log messages are filtered such that only warnings (level 2) or errors (level 3) are printed. This setting allows for specifying the log level threshold, where higher values result in fewer information. Log-level 5 turns off all messages, even errors and other critical information. --log-file[=filename] Print log messages to a file instead of stderr. (de- fault=`RNAdist.log') --log-time Include time stamp in log messages. (default=off) --log-call Include file and line of log calling function. (default=off) REFERENCES If you use this program in your work you might want to cite: R. Lorenz, S.H. Bernhart, C. Hoener zu Siederdissen, H. Tafer, C. Flamm, P.F. Stadler and I.L. Hofacker (2011), "ViennaRNA Package 2.0", Algorithms for Molecular Biology: 6:26 I.L. Hofacker, W. Fontana, P.F. Stadler, S. Bonhoeffer, M. Tacker, P. Schuster (1994), "Fast Folding and Comparison of RNA Secondary Structures", Monatshefte f. Chemie: 125, pp 167-188 R. Lorenz, I.L. Hofacker, P.F. Stadler (2016), "RNA folding with hard and soft constraints", Algorithms for Molecular Biology 11:1 pp 1-13 B.A. Shapiro (1988), "An algorithm for comparing multiple RNA secondary structures" CABIOS: 4, pp 381-393 B.A. Shapiro, K. Zhang (1990), "Comparing multiple RNA secondary structures using tree comparison", CABIOS: 6, pp 309-318 W. Fontana, D.A.M. Konings, P.F. Stadler and P. Schuster P (1993), "Statis- tics of RNA secondary structures", Biopolymers: 33, pp 1389-1404 The energy parameters are taken from: D.H. Mathews, M.D. Disney, D. Matthew, J.L. Childs, S.J. Schroeder, J. Su- san, M. Zuker, D.H. Turner (2004), "Incorporating chemical modification constraints into a dynamic programming algorithm for prediction of RNA sec- ondary structure", Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA: 101, pp 7287-7292 D.H Turner, D.H. Mathews (2009), "NNDB: The nearest neighbor parameter database for predicting stability of nucleic acid secondary structure", Nu- cleic Acids Research: 38, pp 280-282 AUTHOR Walter Fontana, Ivo L Hofacker, Peter F Stadler REPORTING BUGS If in doubt our program is right, nature is at fault. Comments should be sent to rna@tbi.univie.ac.at. RNAdistance 2.7.2 December 2025 RNADISTANCE(1)
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