ABSTRACT: RNA molecules play important roles in virtually every cellular process. These functions are often
mediated through the adoption of specific structures that enable RNAs to interact with other
molecules. Thus, determining the secondary structures of RNAs is central to understanding their
function and evolution. In recent years several sequencing-based approaches have been
developed that allow probing structural features of thousands of RNA molecules present in a
sample. Here, we describe nextPARS, a novel Illumina-based implementation of
in-vitro parallel probing of RNA structures. Our approach achieves comparable accuracy to previous
implementations, while enabling higher throughput and sample multiplexing
25 Jan 2018