Review Article

A Review on Recent Computational Methods for Predicting Noncoding RNAs

Table 6

Methods to predict lncRNAs.

NameFeaturePrediction algorithm

Estimating lincRNome size for human [63]lincRNA numbers validated experimentally in human and mouse, and their overlap lincRNA numberSystem of nonlinear equations

Classifying human lncRNA [64]RNA sequence-structure patterns (RSSPs) describing 42 highly structured families, motif binding sites extracted as 1314 Position-Weight Matrices (PWMs), all -words of length , the sequence complexityClassifying human lncRNA by being able (or disable) to bind the polycomb repressive complex (PRC2), SVM with linear kernel

Identify, classify, and localize maize lncRNAs [65]Transcript length, open reading frame (ORF) size, and homology with known proteinsSVM

The GENCODE v7 catalog of human lncRNA [66]Lack of homology with known proteins, no reasonable-sized open reading frame (ORF), and no high conservation, confirmed by PhyloCSF through the majority of exons conserved promotersManual annotation and pattern recognition

Highly conserved large noncoding RNAs [67]Chromatin signatures “K4–K36” domainMaximum CSF score observed across the entire genomic locus