Times: 2026 Mar 12 from 11:10AM to 11:30AM (Central Time (US & Canada))
Abstract:
Advancements in sequencing technologies have produced a wealth of genomic data. In parallel, the development of artificial intelligence has enabled novel folding models that predict molecular structures from sequences. These advancements have resulted in a myriad of biomolecular structure data. Analytics of structure data offers more accurate approaches to genotype-to-phenotype analyses, as biomolecular structures are more evolutionarily conserved than sequences and more directly linked to biological functions. A major challenge of structure data analytics is the lack of efficient and accurate structure encodings. In this talk, we introduce encodings of RNA secondary structures using polynomial invariants of graphs. We show that the graph polynomial encodings enable efficient, accurate and interpretable RNA secondary structure analyses using modern data analytics tools.