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SUBMITTER: Eastman P
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6029810 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
PLoS computational biology 20180621 6
We use reinforcement learning to train an agent for computational RNA design: given a target secondary structure, design a sequence that folds to that structure in silico. Our agent uses a novel graph convolutional architecture allowing a single model to be applied to arbitrary target structures of any length. After training it on randomly generated targets, we test it on the Eterna100 benchmark and find it outperforms all previous algorithms. Analysis of its solutions shows it has successfully ...[more]