Abstract: Systems and methods to enable representation of sequence as well as structural information of an RNA molecule in the form of a single encoded string are described. The encoding steps are based on identifying one or more contiguous stretches of ribonucleotide bases having similar structural attributes and base-pairing patterns. In the encoded string, each of the identified contiguous structure stretches is represented by a single character that indicates the corresponding structural attribute. Appending these structural characters to the corresponding contiguous ribonucleotide character stretches, and subsequently eliminating redundant ribonucleotide characters based on standard base-pairing rules results in generating the final encoded string. Such concomitant representation of sequence and structural information of a given RNA molecule in a single encoded string enables efficient storage and easy dissemination of RNA data.

Abstract: Systems and methods to enable representation of sequence as well as structural information of an RNA molecule in the form of a single encoded string are described. The encoding steps are based on identifying one or more contiguous stretches of ribonucleotide bases having similar structural attributes and base-pairing patterns. In the encoded string, each of the identified contiguous structure stretches is represented by a single character that indicates the corresponding structural attribute. Appending these structural characters to the corresponding contiguous ribonucleotide character stretches, and subsequently eliminating redundant ribonucleotide characters based on standard base-pairing rules results in generating the final encoded string. Such concomitant representation of sequence and structural information of a given RNA molecule in a single encoded string enables efficient storage and easy dissemination of RNA data.