Predicting Riboswitch Regulation on a Genomic ScaleThis page describes how to install a set of Perl scripts designed to identify members of known riboswitch classes in genomic sequences. It accompanies a Methods in Molecular Biology protocol chapter that explains how to use these scripts. This protocol may also be useful for analyzing other structured RNAs, such as those found in the Rfam database, or for investigating new regulatory RNA motifs, such as might be predicted by CMfinder. | ||||||||
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InstallationInfernalInfernal is used to conduct covariance model searches. Download, compile, and install according to the directions for your system. There have been some interface changes since v0.81. This updated protocol assumes you have v1.0.BioPerlAs of June 2009, the current stable release of BioPerl (v1.6) does not include the necessary modules for parsing Infernal search results or manipulating Stockholm alignments. Therefore, you may need to download and install the current CVS version of bioperl-live. Either follow the Getting BioPerl instructions or try this link to download directly.Code LibrarieslibGD is required to produce drawings of the genomic contexts of putative RNA structure matches. Download and install according to the directions for your system.Perl ModulesSeveral additional Perl modules from are required for the riboswitch perl scripts. You can download and install them directly from CPAN. Alternately, on MacOS X, you can use the following command sequence if you have administrator privileges:
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The GD module requires libGD to be installed beforehand and is only necessary for producing genomic context drawings. If you encounter any other messages of the form: "Can't locate module.pm in @INC", try installing module from CPAN.
Riboswitch Perl ScriptsDownload the riboswitch Perl scripts. | ||||||||
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UsageEach Perl script has POD documentation. To view it, either open the script in a text editor or use one of these commands:
Updated Protocols3.2 Annotating Riboswitches in a Bacterial GenomeWith the new version of Infernal (v1.0), the command sequence for performing global alignment of the riboswitch model to matches in the database with the hmmfilter has changed as follows:
3.3 Exhaustively Identifying Riboswitches in a Sequence DatabaseWith the new version of Infernal (v1.0), the example command sequence for performing global alignment of the riboswitch model to matches in the database has changed as follows:
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