Bacterial small RNAs; Machine learning; Multispecies evaluation; Random forest; sRNA characterization; sRNA prediction; sRNA prioritization; sRNACharP; sRNARanking

Prioritizing bona fide bacterial small RNAs with machine learning classifiers

Bacterial small (sRNAs) are involved in the control of several cellular processes. Hundreds of putative sRNAs have been identified in many bacterial species through RNA sequencing. The existence of putative sRNAs is usually validated by Northern blot …