Publications and Citation

When using the Freiburg RNA Tools please cite the according publications from the lists provided for each individual tool.

Furthermore, please provide the following web URL

http://rna.informatik.uni-freiburg.de

with version (5.0.10) along with your citation, to enable an easy access of the Freiburg RNA Tools.

A general list of publications by the Freiburg Bioinformatics Group is available here.

If you have questions concerning publications or citation, please contact us.

Tool specific lists of publications

CopraRNA
IntaRNA
GLASSgo
metaMIR
LocARNA
CARNA
MARNA
ExpaRNA
CRISPRmap
CRISPRloci
AntaRNA
INFORNA
SECISDesign
NIPU
CopomuS
MutaRNA
RaSE
BrainDead
DiGI

When using CopraRNA please cite :

Patrick R. Wright, Jens Georg, Martin Mann, Dragos A. Sorescu, Andreas S. Richter, Steffen Lott, Robert Kleinkauf, Wolfgang R. Hess, and Rolf Backofen
CopraRNA and IntaRNA: predicting small RNA targets, networks and interaction domains
Nucleic Acids Research, 2014, 42 (W1), W119-W123.
Patrick R. Wright, Andreas S. Richter, Kai Papenfort, Martin Mann, Joerg Vogel, Wolfgang R. Hess, Rolf Backofen and Jens Georg
Comparative genomics boosts target prediction for bacterial small RNAs
Proc Natl Acad Sci USA, 2013, 110 (37), E3487-E3496.
Martin Raden, Syed M Ali, Omer S Alkhnbashi, Anke Busch, Fabrizio Costa, Jason A Davis, Florian Eggenhofer, Rick Gelhausen, Jens Georg, Steffen Heyne, Michael Hiller, Kousik Kundu, Robert Kleinkauf, Steffen C Lott, Mostafa M Mohamed, Alexander Mattheis, Milad Miladi, Andreas S Richter, Sebastian Will, Joachim Wolff, Patrick R Wright, and Rolf Backofen
Freiburg RNA tools: a central online resource for RNA-focused research and teaching
Nucleic Acids Research, 46(W1), W25-W29, 2018.

When using IntaRNA please cite :

Martin Mann, Patrick R. Wright, and Rolf Backofen
IntaRNA 2.0: enhanced and customizable prediction of RNA–RNA interactions
Nucleic Acids Research, 2017, 45 (W1), W435–W439.
Patrick R. Wright, Jens Georg, Martin Mann, Dragos A. Sorescu, Andreas S. Richter, Steffen Lott, Robert Kleinkauf, Wolfgang R. Hess, and Rolf Backofen
CopraRNA and IntaRNA: predicting small RNA targets, networks and interaction domains
Nucleic Acids Research, 2014, 42 (W1), W119-W123.
Anke Busch, Andreas S. Richter, and Rolf Backofen
IntaRNA: efficient prediction of bacterial sRNA targets incorporating target site accessibility and seed regions
Bioinformatics, 2008, 24 (24), 2849-56.
Martin Raden, Syed M Ali, Omer S Alkhnbashi, Anke Busch, Fabrizio Costa, Jason A Davis, Florian Eggenhofer, Rick Gelhausen, Jens Georg, Steffen Heyne, Michael Hiller, Kousik Kundu, Robert Kleinkauf, Steffen C Lott, Mostafa M Mohamed, Alexander Mattheis, Milad Miladi, Andreas S Richter, Sebastian Will, Joachim Wolff, Patrick R Wright, and Rolf Backofen
Freiburg RNA tools: a central online resource for RNA-focused research and teaching
Nucleic Acids Research, 46(W1), W25-W29, 2018.

When using GLASSgo please cite :

Steffen C. Lott, Richard A Schäfer, Martin Mann, Rolf Backofen, Wolfgang R Hess, Bjoern Voss, Jens Georg
GLASSgo - Automated and reliable detection of sRNA homologs from a single input sequences
Frontiers in Genetics, 9, 124, 2018.
Martin Raden, Syed M Ali, Omer S Alkhnbashi, Anke Busch, Fabrizio Costa, Jason A Davis, Florian Eggenhofer, Rick Gelhausen, Jens Georg, Steffen Heyne, Michael Hiller, Kousik Kundu, Robert Kleinkauf, Steffen C Lott, Mostafa M Mohamed, Alexander Mattheis, Milad Miladi, Andreas S Richter, Sebastian Will, Joachim Wolff, Patrick R Wright, and Rolf Backofen
Freiburg RNA tools: a central online resource for RNA-focused research and teaching
Nucleic Acids Research, 46(W1), W25-W29, 2018.

When using metaMIR please cite :

Jason A. Davis, Sita J. Saunders, Martin Mann, Rolf Backofen
Combinatorial ensemble miRNA target prediction of co-regulation networks with non-prediction data
Nucleic Acids Research, 2017, 45 (15), 8745–8757.
Martin Raden, Syed M Ali, Omer S Alkhnbashi, Anke Busch, Fabrizio Costa, Jason A Davis, Florian Eggenhofer, Rick Gelhausen, Jens Georg, Steffen Heyne, Michael Hiller, Kousik Kundu, Robert Kleinkauf, Steffen C Lott, Mostafa M Mohamed, Alexander Mattheis, Milad Miladi, Andreas S Richter, Sebastian Will, Joachim Wolff, Patrick R Wright, and Rolf Backofen
Freiburg RNA tools: a central online resource for RNA-focused research and teaching
Nucleic Acids Research, 46(W1), W25-W29, 2018.

When using LocARNA please cite :

Sebastian Will, Tejal Joshi, Ivo L. Hofacker, Peter F. Stadler, and Rolf Backofen.
LocARNA-P: Accurate boundary prediction and improved detection of structural RNAs
RNA, 18 no. 5, pp. 900-14, 2012
Sebastian Will, Kristin Reiche, Ivo L. Hofacker, Peter F. Stadler, and Rolf Backofen.
Inferring non-coding RNA families and classes by means of genome-scale structure-based clustering
PLoS Computational Biology, 3 no. 4, pp. e65, 2007
Martin Raden, Syed M Ali, Omer S Alkhnbashi, Anke Busch, Fabrizio Costa, Jason A Davis, Florian Eggenhofer, Rick Gelhausen, Jens Georg, Steffen Heyne, Michael Hiller, Kousik Kundu, Robert Kleinkauf, Steffen C Lott, Mostafa M Mohamed, Alexander Mattheis, Milad Miladi, Andreas S Richter, Sebastian Will, Joachim Wolff, Patrick R Wright, and Rolf Backofen
Freiburg RNA tools: a central online resource for RNA-focused research and teaching
Nucleic Acids Research, 46(W1), W25-W29, 2018.

When using CARNA please cite :

Dragos A. Sorescu, Mathias Moehl, Martin Mann, Rolf Backofen, and Sebastian Will
CARNA - alignment of RNA structure ensembles
Nucleic Acids Reseach, 2012, 40 no. W1 pp. W49-W53
Alessandro Dal Palu, Mathias Moehl, Sebastian Will
A Propagator for Maximum Weight String Alignment with Arbitrary Pairwise Dependencies
Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP-2010), 2010, 8
Martin Raden, Syed M Ali, Omer S Alkhnbashi, Anke Busch, Fabrizio Costa, Jason A Davis, Florian Eggenhofer, Rick Gelhausen, Jens Georg, Steffen Heyne, Michael Hiller, Kousik Kundu, Robert Kleinkauf, Steffen C Lott, Mostafa M Mohamed, Alexander Mattheis, Milad Miladi, Andreas S Richter, Sebastian Will, Joachim Wolff, Patrick R Wright, and Rolf Backofen
Freiburg RNA tools: a central online resource for RNA-focused research and teaching
Nucleic Acids Research, 46(W1), W25-W29, 2018.

When using MARNA please cite :

Sven Siebert and Rolf Backofen
MARNA: multiple alignment and consensus structure prediction of RNAs based on sequence structure comparisons
Bioinformatics 2005, Volume 21, Issue 16, 3352-3359
Sven Siebert and Rolf Backofen
MARNA: A server for multiple alignment of RNAs
In Proc. of German Conference on Bioinformatics (GCB'03), pages 135-140, October 2003
Martin Raden, Syed M Ali, Omer S Alkhnbashi, Anke Busch, Fabrizio Costa, Jason A Davis, Florian Eggenhofer, Rick Gelhausen, Jens Georg, Steffen Heyne, Michael Hiller, Kousik Kundu, Robert Kleinkauf, Steffen C Lott, Mostafa M Mohamed, Alexander Mattheis, Milad Miladi, Andreas S Richter, Sebastian Will, Joachim Wolff, Patrick R Wright, and Rolf Backofen
Freiburg RNA tools: a central online resource for RNA-focused research and teaching
Nucleic Acids Research, 46(W1), W25-W29, 2018.

When using ExpaRNA please cite :

Steffen Heyne, Sebastian Will, Michael Beckstette, and Rolf Backofen
Lightweight comparison of RNAs based on exact sequence-structure matches
Bioinformatics, 25 no. 16 pp. 2095-2102, 2009
Martin Raden, Syed M Ali, Omer S Alkhnbashi, Anke Busch, Fabrizio Costa, Jason A Davis, Florian Eggenhofer, Rick Gelhausen, Jens Georg, Steffen Heyne, Michael Hiller, Kousik Kundu, Robert Kleinkauf, Steffen C Lott, Mostafa M Mohamed, Alexander Mattheis, Milad Miladi, Andreas S Richter, Sebastian Will, Joachim Wolff, Patrick R Wright, and Rolf Backofen
Freiburg RNA tools: a central online resource for RNA-focused research and teaching
Nucleic Acids Research, 46(W1), W25-W29, 2018.

When using CRISPRmap please cite :

Omer S. Alkhnbashi, Fabrizio Costa, Shiraz A. Shah, Roger A. Garrett, Sita J. Saunders, and Rolf Backofen.
CRISPRstrand: predicting repeat orientations to determine the crRNA-encoding strand at CRISPR loci
Bioinformatics, 2014, 30(17), 489-496.
Sita J. Lange, Omer S. Alkhnbashi, Dominic Rose, Sebastian Will and Rolf Backofen.
CRISPRmap: an automated classification of repeat conservation in prokaryotic adaptive immune systems
Nucleic Acids Research, 2013, 41(17), 8034-8044.
Martin Raden, Syed M Ali, Omer S Alkhnbashi, Anke Busch, Fabrizio Costa, Jason A Davis, Florian Eggenhofer, Rick Gelhausen, Jens Georg, Steffen Heyne, Michael Hiller, Kousik Kundu, Robert Kleinkauf, Steffen C Lott, Mostafa M Mohamed, Alexander Mattheis, Milad Miladi, Andreas S Richter, Sebastian Will, Joachim Wolff, Patrick R Wright, and Rolf Backofen
Freiburg RNA tools: a central online resource for RNA-focused research and teaching
Nucleic Acids Research, 46(W1), W25-W29, 2018.

When using CRISPRloci please cite :

Omer S. Alkhnbashi, Alexander Mitrofanov, Robson Bonidia, Martin Raden, Van Dinh Tran, Florian Eggenhofer, Shiraz A. Shah, Ekrem ̈Öztürk, Victor A. Padilha, Danilo S. Sanches, Andre C.P.L.F. de Carvalho and Rolf Backofen
CRISPRloci: comprehensive and accurate annotation of CRISPR–Cas systems
Nucleic Acids Research, 2021.
Alexander Mitrofanov, Omer S. Alkhnbashi, Sergey A. Shmakov, Kira S. Makarova, Eugene V. Koonin, and Rolf Backofen
CRISPRidentify: identification of CRISPR arrays using machine learning approach
Nucleic Acids Research, 49(4), e20, 2021.
Victor A. Padilha, Omer S. Alkhnbashi, Van Dinh Tran, Shiraz A. Shah, Andre C.P.L. de Carvalho and Rolf Backofen
Casboundary: automated definition of integral Cas cassettes
Bioinformatics, 2021.
Victor A. Padilha, Omer S. Alkhnbashi, Shiraz A. Shah, Andre C.P.L.F. de Carvalho and Rolf Backofen
CRISPRcasIdentifier: Machine learning for accurate identification and classification of CRISPR-Cas systems
Gigascience, 9(6), 2020.
Martin Raden, Syed M Ali, Omer S Alkhnbashi, Anke Busch, Fabrizio Costa, Jason A Davis, Florian Eggenhofer, Rick Gelhausen, Jens Georg, Steffen Heyne, Michael Hiller, Kousik Kundu, Robert Kleinkauf, Steffen C Lott, Mostafa M Mohamed, Alexander Mattheis, Milad Miladi, Andreas S Richter, Sebastian Will, Joachim Wolff, Patrick R Wright, and Rolf Backofen
Freiburg RNA tools: a central online resource for RNA-focused research and teaching
Nucleic Acids Research, 46(W1), W25-W29, 2018.

When using AntaRNA please cite :

Robert Kleinkauf, Martin Mann and Rolf Backofen
AntaRNA - Ant Colony Based RNA Sequence Design
Bioinformatics, 31(19), pages 3114-3121, 2015.
Robert Kleinkauf, Torsten Houwaart, Rolf Backofen, and Martin Mann
AntaRNA - multi-objective inverse folding of pseudoknot RNA using ant-colony optimization
BMC Bioinformatics, 16(1), pages 1-7, 2015.
Martin Raden, Syed M Ali, Omer S Alkhnbashi, Anke Busch, Fabrizio Costa, Jason A Davis, Florian Eggenhofer, Rick Gelhausen, Jens Georg, Steffen Heyne, Michael Hiller, Kousik Kundu, Robert Kleinkauf, Steffen C Lott, Mostafa M Mohamed, Alexander Mattheis, Milad Miladi, Andreas S Richter, Sebastian Will, Joachim Wolff, Patrick R Wright, and Rolf Backofen
Freiburg RNA tools: a central online resource for RNA-focused research and teaching
Nucleic Acids Research, 46(W1), W25-W29, 2018.

When using INFORNA please cite :

Anke Busch and Rolf Backofen
INFO-RNA - A Server for Fast Inverse RNA Folding Satisfying Sequence Constraints
Nucleic Acid Research, 35 (Web Server Issue) W310-3, 2007
Anke Busch and Rolf Backofen
INFO-RNA - a fast approach to inverse RNA folding
Bioinformatics, 22 no. 15 pp. 1823-31, 2006
Martin Raden, Syed M Ali, Omer S Alkhnbashi, Anke Busch, Fabrizio Costa, Jason A Davis, Florian Eggenhofer, Rick Gelhausen, Jens Georg, Steffen Heyne, Michael Hiller, Kousik Kundu, Robert Kleinkauf, Steffen C Lott, Mostafa M Mohamed, Alexander Mattheis, Milad Miladi, Andreas S Richter, Sebastian Will, Joachim Wolff, Patrick R Wright, and Rolf Backofen
Freiburg RNA tools: a central online resource for RNA-focused research and teaching
Nucleic Acids Research, 46(W1), W25-W29, 2018.

When using SECISDesign please cite :

Anke Busch, Sebastian Will, and Rolf Backofen
SECISDesign - A Server to Design SECIS-Elements within the Coding Sequence
Bioinformatics, 2005, 21(15), 3312-3.
Martin Raden, Syed M Ali, Omer S Alkhnbashi, Anke Busch, Fabrizio Costa, Jason A Davis, Florian Eggenhofer, Rick Gelhausen, Jens Georg, Steffen Heyne, Michael Hiller, Kousik Kundu, Robert Kleinkauf, Steffen C Lott, Mostafa M Mohamed, Alexander Mattheis, Milad Miladi, Andreas S Richter, Sebastian Will, Joachim Wolff, Patrick R Wright, and Rolf Backofen
Freiburg RNA tools: a central online resource for RNA-focused research and teaching
Nucleic Acids Research, 46(W1), W25-W29, 2018.

When using NIPU please cite :

Michael Hiller, Zhaiyi Zhang, Rolf Backofen, and Stefan Stamm
Pre-mRNA Secondary Structures Influence Exon Recognition
PLoS Genetics, 3 no. 11 pp. e204, 2007
Martin Raden, Syed M Ali, Omer S Alkhnbashi, Anke Busch, Fabrizio Costa, Jason A Davis, Florian Eggenhofer, Rick Gelhausen, Jens Georg, Steffen Heyne, Michael Hiller, Kousik Kundu, Robert Kleinkauf, Steffen C Lott, Mostafa M Mohamed, Alexander Mattheis, Milad Miladi, Andreas S Richter, Sebastian Will, Joachim Wolff, Patrick R Wright, and Rolf Backofen
Freiburg RNA tools: a central online resource for RNA-focused research and teaching
Nucleic Acids Research, 46(W1), W25-W29, 2018.

When using CopomuS please cite :

Martin Raden, Fabio Gutmann, Michael Uhl, and Rolf Backofen
CopomuS - ranking compensatory mutations to guide RNA-RNA interaction
International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 21(11),3852, 2020.
Martin Mann, Patrick R. Wright, and Rolf Backofen
IntaRNA 2.0: enhanced and customizable prediction of RNA–RNA interactions
Nucleic Acids Research, 2017, 45 (W1), W435–W439.
Martin Raden, Syed M Ali, Omer S Alkhnbashi, Anke Busch, Fabrizio Costa, Jason A Davis, Florian Eggenhofer, Rick Gelhausen, Jens Georg, Steffen Heyne, Michael Hiller, Kousik Kundu, Robert Kleinkauf, Steffen C Lott, Mostafa M Mohamed, Alexander Mattheis, Milad Miladi, Andreas S Richter, Sebastian Will, Joachim Wolff, Patrick R Wright, and Rolf Backofen
Freiburg RNA tools: a central online resource for RNA-focused research and teaching
Nucleic Acids Research, 46(W1), W25-W29, 2018.

When using MutaRNA please cite :

Milad Miladi, Martin Raden, Sven Diederichs, and Rolf Backofen
MutaRNA: analysis and visualization of mutation-induced changes in RNA structure
Nucleic Acids Research, 48(W1), W287–W291, 2020
Martin Raden, Syed M Ali, Omer S Alkhnbashi, Anke Busch, Fabrizio Costa, Jason A Davis, Florian Eggenhofer, Rick Gelhausen, Jens Georg, Steffen Heyne, Michael Hiller, Kousik Kundu, Robert Kleinkauf, Steffen C Lott, Mostafa M Mohamed, Alexander Mattheis, Milad Miladi, Andreas S Richter, Sebastian Will, Joachim Wolff, Patrick R Wright, and Rolf Backofen
Freiburg RNA tools: a central online resource for RNA-focused research and teaching
Nucleic Acids Research, 46(W1), W25-W29, 2018.

When using RaSE please cite :

Martin Raden, Syed M Ali, Omer S Alkhnbashi, Anke Busch, Fabrizio Costa, Jason A Davis, Florian Eggenhofer, Rick Gelhausen, Jens Georg, Steffen Heyne, Michael Hiller, Kousik Kundu, Robert Kleinkauf, Steffen C Lott, Mostafa M Mohamed, Alexander Mattheis, Milad Miladi, Andreas S Richter, Sebastian Will, Joachim Wolff, Patrick R Wright, and Rolf Backofen
Freiburg RNA tools: a central online resource for RNA-focused research and teaching
Nucleic Acids Research, 46(W1), W25-W29, 2018.

When using BrainDead please cite :

Martin Raden, Thomas Wallach, Milad Miladi, Yuanyuan Zhai, Christina Krueger, Zoe J. Mossmann, Paul Dembny, Rolf Backofen, Seija Lehnardt
Structure-aware machine learning classification of oligonucleotide-induced immune response identifies microRNAs operating as Toll-like receptor 7/8 ligands
RNA Biology, 18:sup1, 268-277,2021.
Martin Raden, Syed M Ali, Omer S Alkhnbashi, Anke Busch, Fabrizio Costa, Jason A Davis, Florian Eggenhofer, Rick Gelhausen, Jens Georg, Steffen Heyne, Michael Hiller, Kousik Kundu, Robert Kleinkauf, Steffen C Lott, Mostafa M Mohamed, Alexander Mattheis, Milad Miladi, Andreas S Richter, Sebastian Will, Joachim Wolff, Patrick R Wright, and Rolf Backofen
Freiburg RNA tools: a central online resource for RNA-focused research and teaching
Nucleic Acids Research, 46(W1), W25-W29, 2018.

When using DiGI please cite :

Dinh Van Tran, Alessandro Sperduti, Rolf Backofen and Fabrizio Costa
Heterogeneous networks integration for disease gene prioritization with node kernels
Bioinformatics, 36(9), 2649–2656, 2020.
Martin Raden, Syed M Ali, Omer S Alkhnbashi, Anke Busch, Fabrizio Costa, Jason A Davis, Florian Eggenhofer, Rick Gelhausen, Jens Georg, Steffen Heyne, Michael Hiller, Kousik Kundu, Robert Kleinkauf, Steffen C Lott, Mostafa M Mohamed, Alexander Mattheis, Milad Miladi, Andreas S Richter, Sebastian Will, Joachim Wolff, Patrick R Wright, and Rolf Backofen
Freiburg RNA tools: a central online resource for RNA-focused research and teaching
Nucleic Acids Research, 46(W1), W25-W29, 2018.

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