Yiliang Ding

Dec 8, 2024 | flipboard.com | Haopeng Yu |Heng Yang |Wenqing Sun |Zongyun Yan |Xiaofei Yang |Huakun Zhang | +2 more

Scientists link common items typically found around the house to worrisome disorder: 'It's not just observational'Chemicals in items all over your house may be the newfound culprit of your sleepless nights.What's happening?As reported by the Guardian, a new study …

Dec 8, 2024 | nature.com | Heng Yang |Xiaofei Yang |Yiliang Ding

AbstractThe complex ‘language’ of plant RNA encodes a vast array of biological regulatory elements that orchestrate crucial aspects of plant growth, development and adaptation to environmental stresses. Recent advancements in foundation models (FMs) have demonstrated their unprecedented potential to decipher complex ‘language’ in biology. In this study, we introduced PlantRNA-FM, a high-performance and interpretable RNA FM specifically designed for plants.

Jun 26, 2024 | nature.com | Xinang Cao |Yueying Zhang |Yiliang Ding |Yue Wan

The development of high-throughput RNA structure profiling methods in the past decade has greatly facilitated our ability to map and characterize different aspects of RNA structures transcriptome-wide in cell populations, single cells and single molecules. The resulting high-resolution data have provided insights into the static and dynamic nature of RNA structures, revealing their complexity as they perform their respective functions in the cell. In this Review, we discuss recent technical advances in the determination of RNA structures, and the roles of RNA structures in RNA biogenesis and functions, including in transcription, processing, translation, degradation, localization and RNA structure-dependent condensates. We also discuss the current understanding of how RNA structures could guide drug design for treating genetic diseases and battling pathogenic viruses, and highlight existing challenges and future directions in RNA structure research. Recently developed RNA structure profiling methods are transforming our understanding of static and dynamic facets of RNA structures at single-cell and single-molecule resolution. These data have revealed new roles for structures in RNA biogenesis and function, and guide drug design against viral RNAs and for treatment of genetic diseases.