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New RNA tool maps structure and motifs across organisms and viruses

Phys · · 661 words · By Robert Emmerich

Researchers at the University of Würzburg have developed RNAanalyzer3, a free computer-based tool designed to map RNA structures and motifs across various organisms and viruses. The tool aims to improve the understanding of cellular processes and diseases by providing interactive visualizations and a holistic analysis approach.

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“Researchers at the University of Würzburg have unveiled a new tool for analyzing RNA molecules.”
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The claim is explicitly stated in the Mirage News article. While Wikipedia mentions RNA research at the University of Würzburg, it does not specifically confirm the unveiling of this particular tool. Only one news source (Mirage News) provides the specific detail about the tool's unveiling.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Chase Beisel is a professor of synthetic RNA biology. at Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (JMU) (Bavaria, Germany) and a Department Head at the Helmholtz Institute for RNA-based Infection Resea…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chase_Beisel
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Cynthia Mira Sharma (born 1979) is a biologist, who is Chair of Molecular Infection Biology II at the University of Würzburg. Her research focuses on how bacterial pathogens regulate their gene expres…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynthia_Sharma
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI) is a publicly funded research institute based in Braunschweig, Germany. HZI is a member of the Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres, the l…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helmholtz_Centre_for_Infection…
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“The groups led by professors Thomas Dandekar and Kathi Zarnack have further developed a computer-based tool to enable even better investigation of the motifs and structure of RNA.”
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The provided evidence for this claim consists of irrelevant news snippets from the Bellevue Reporter and does not mention Professors Thomas Dandekar or Kathi Zarnack.
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“The team from the Würzburg Biocentre presents the new tool, the RNAanalyzer3, in an article published in Nucleic Acids Research.”
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The Mirage News article explicitly states that the team from the Würzburg Biocentre presented RNAanalyzer3 in the journal Nucleic Acids Research. While Wikipedia confirms the existence of the journal, it does not confirm this specific publication.
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web search NEUTRAL — Nucleic Acids Research is an open-access peer-reviewed scientific journal published since 1974 by the Oxford University Press. The journal covers research on nucleic acids, such as DNA and RNA, and re…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nucleic_Acids_Research
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web search NEUTRAL — The new tool and its unique features. The team from the Würzburg Biocentre presents the new tool, the RNAanalyzer3, in the renowned journal Nucleic Acids Research.
https://www.miragenews.com/new-tool-decodes-structures-and-m…
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web search NEUTRAL — The latest science news from Nucleic Acids Research by Phys.org(... continued page 25).A pair of genetics researchers at Iowa State University found striking patterns in the building blocks of DNA in …
https://phys.org/journals/nucleic-acids-research/page25.html
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“Access to the tool is free”
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“The new tool works for all living organisms as well as for viruses.”
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The evidence mentions RNAanalyzer3 incorporates RNAfold and discusses viruses generally, but no source explicitly confirms that the tool is compatible with all living organisms and viruses.
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web search NEUTRAL — RNAanalyzer also incorporates RNAfold from the ViennaRNA package to give the user structural information along with a folding overview. These, coupled with coding sequence potential analyis, can help …
https://rnaanalyzer.bioapps.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de/abou…
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web search NEUTRAL — Infection of human cells by influenza A virus induces changes in the alternative splicing of host genes that, in turn, promote viral replication.Cite this article (links to download the citations from…
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“The RNAanalyzer3 does not present the results as a confusing "jumble of letters" made up of the RNA building blocks A, C, G and U. Instead, the program creates colorful, clickable maps of the RNA.”
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The evidence mentions the tool's nucleotide limit and general DNA data retrieval, but does not describe the 'colorful, clickable maps' or the contrast with 'jumble of letters'.
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web search NEUTRAL — Tip 2: RNA Analyzer3 accepts seqeunces up to 20,000 nucleotides. If your sequence is too long you can always divide it into several sequences as RNAanalyzer accepts upto 5 sequences at once.
https://rnaanalyzer.bioapps.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de/
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“The RNAanalyzer3 accurately identified the "IRE motif" within [the FTH1 gene].”
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The Mirage News article specifically states that RNAanalyzer3 accurately identified the 'IRE motif'. Other sources explain what IRE motifs are but do not corroborate the tool's specific success in identifying them in the FTH1 gene.
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web search NEUTRAL — Iron-responsive elements (IREs) are cis-acting regulatory RNA motifs that bind to iron regulatory proteins (IRP1 and IRP2), playing an essential role in the post-transcriptional regulation of genes in…
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12230718/
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web search NEUTRAL — The RNAanalyzer3 accurately identified the "IRE motif" within it. This control centre is also medically significant: If researchers understand it better, they can gain a clearer insight into how cance…
https://www.miragenews.com/new-tool-decodes-structures-and-m…
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web search NEUTRAL — An iron-responsive element (IRE) has been identified in the 5'-untranslated region (UTR) of the human ferritin heavy chain mRNA which, when placed in the 5'-UTR of heterologous reporter genes, confers…
https://www.academia.edu/62461540/The_iron_responsive_elemen…
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“The tool accurately identified the "ARE motifs" at the rear end of the [TNF gene] RNA strand.”
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“The researchers use the Perl programming language for their program”
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No evidence was found in the provided search results regarding the programming language used for RNAanalyzer3.
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“and access large international databases such as Rfam and miRbase.”
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No evidence was found in the provided search results regarding the use of Rfam or miRbase databases by RNAanalyzer3.
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“The calculation of the exact fold is limited to sequences of up to 5,000 nucleotides.”
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“The general pattern search works for up to 20,000 nucleotides.”
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“Users can analyze up to five sequences simultaneously.”
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“Aman Akash et al, RNA motifs, RNA structure, and motif context analyzed by RNAanalyzer3, Nucleic Acids Research (2026). DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkag392”
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