Stem Kernels

The stem kernel is a kernel function for structural RNAs to measure a kind of similarity between a pair of RNA sequences from the viewpoint of secondary structures.

References

Sato K., Mituyama, T., Asai, K. and Sakakibara, Y.: Directed acyclic graph kernels for Structural RNA analysis, BMC Bioinformatics, 9:318, 2008. [pubmed]
Sakakibara, Y., Popendorf, K., Ogawa, N., Asai, K. and Sato, K.: Stem kernels for RNA sequence analyses. J Bioinform Comput Biol, 5, 1103-1122, 2007. [pubmed]

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See Also

http://stem-kernel.dna.bio.keio.ac.jp/