Institute of Mathematical Research
HKU – Pasteur Research Centre

 
 
 

Working Seminar on Conceptualized Biology:
 
 

Employing Palingol to identify S-boxes in
bacterial genomes

Yi HUANG
HKU-Pasteur Research Centre


Abstract

Palingol is a programming language created in 1996 and used to describe nucleic acids’ secondary structures. So Palingol is a useful tool for the application of S-box searching. S-box is a RNA motif with some conserved structures. It has capability to fold into two alternative structures in order to control transcription. The real function of it is not clear yet. But the structure was already identified from several bacteria genomes 2 years ago. The aim of the work is to employ Palingol to identify S-boxes from 52 genomes and 6 of them have been verified containing S-boxes.
 

Date: March 5, 2003 (Wednesday) 
Time: 2:30 – 4:00pm
Place: Room 517, Meng Wah Complex

 
 
 
 
 
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