Structural genomics Tools

Infernal ("INFERence of RNA ALignment") is for searching DNA sequence databases for RNA structure and sequence similarities. It is an implementation of a special case of profile stochastic context-free grammars called covariance models (CMs). A CM is like a sequence profile, but it scores a combination of sequence consensus and RNA secondary structure consensus, so in many cases, it is more capable of identifying RNA homologs that conserve their secondary structure more than their primary sequence.

Control-FREEC is a tool for detection of copy-number changes and allelic imbalances (including LOH) using deep-sequencing data originally developed by the Bioinformatics Laboratory of Institut Curie (Paris). Since 2016, the project has moved to Insitut Cochin, INSERM U1016 (Paris).