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The IBISC laboratory¹ has developed IRSOM2, a first-ever bioinformatics tool for bifunctional RNA prediction.
Bifunctional RNAs constitute a recently identified class of RNAs that have both coding and non-coding functions, meaning they are able to both code for the synthesis of a biologically active protein and directly provide regulatory functions themselves. This double-function nature varies according to, for example, environmental parameters, the organism’s development stage, or pathological processes.
This new, freely available and easy-to-use tool lets biologists identify candidate bifunctional RNAs for further study, and in so doing, contributes to increasing knowledge in this emerging field. Researchers will find the tool with its intuitive interface and visual representation of results on the EvryRNA computer program platform headed by Fariza Tahi. EvryRNA is one of the 24 technological platforms mutualized by Genopole.
1 IBISC: Computer Science, Bio-Informatics and Complex Systems (University of Évry/ENSIIE)
