SMEpred workbench: a web server for predicting efficacy of chemically modified siRNAs.

Dar, Showkat Ahmad and Gupta, Amit Kumar and Thakur, Anamika and Kumar, Manoj (2016) SMEpred workbench: a web server for predicting efficacy of chemically modified siRNAs. RNA biology. ISSN 1555-8584

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Abstract

Chemical modifications have been extensively exploited to circumvent shortcomings in therapeutic applications of small interfering RNAs (siRNAs). However, experimental designing and testing of these siRNAs or chemically modified siRNAs (cm-siRNAs) involves enormous resources. Therefore, in-silico intervention in designing cm-siRNAs would be of utmost importance. We developed SMEpred workbench to predict the efficacy of normal siRNAs as well as cm-siRNAs using 3031 heterogeneous cm-siRNA sequences from siRNAmod database. These include 30 frequently used chemical modifications on different positions of either siRNA strand. Support Vector Machine (SVM) was employed to develop predictive models utilizing various sequence features namely mono-, di-nucleotide composition, binary pattern and their hybrids. We achieved highest Pearson Correlation Coefficient (PCC) of 0.80 during 10-fold cross validation and similar PCC value in independent validation. We have provided the algorithm in the 'SMEpred' pipeline to predict the normal siRNAs from the gene or mRNA sequence. For multiple modifications, we have assembled 'MultiModGen' module to design multiple modifications and further process them to evaluate their predicted efficacies. SMEpred webserver will be useful to scientific community engaged in use of RNAi-based technology as well as for therapeutic development. Web server is available for public use at following URL address: http://bioinfo.imtech.res.in/manojk/smepred .

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	Open Access
Subjects:	Q Science > QR Microbiology
Depositing User:	Dr. K.P.S.Sengar
Date Deposited:	29 Sep 2016 10:59
Last Modified:	29 Sep 2016 10:59
URI:	http://crdd.osdd.net/open/id/eprint/1861

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