TARNAS, a TrAnslator for RNA Secondary Structure Formats

RNAs are single-stranded molecules that fold into themselves, determining a complex shape to perform their biological functions. Considering the chemical bonds established, such shapes can be abstracted into secondary structures, which are tractable from a computational point of view and encode valuable biological information. The analysis of such structures, including comparison and classification, plays a fundamental role in different biological studies. Unfortunately, the available tools take secondary structures as input using different formats, making the translation among different them a necessary step in every analysis