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RNAGym: Large-scale Benchmarks for RNA Fitness and Structure Prediction

Arora, R.; Angelo, M.; Choe, C. A.; Shearer, C.; Kollasch, A.; Qu, F.; Weitzman, R.; Gazizov, A.; Gurev, S.; Xie, E.; Marks, D. S.; Notin, P.

2025-06-17 synthetic biology
10.1101/2025.06.16.660049 bioRxiv
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Understanding RNA structure and predicting the functional consequences of mutations are fundamental challenges in computational biology with broad implications for therapeutic development and synthetic biology. Current evaluation of machine learning-based RNA models suffers from disparate experimental datasets and inconsistent performance assessments across different RNA families. To address these challenges, we introduce RNAGym, a large-scale benchmarking framework specifically designed for three core tasks-RNA fitness, secondary structure, and tertiary structure prediction. The framework integrates extensive datasets, including 70 standardized deep mutational scanning assays covering over a million mutations across diverse RNA types; 901k chemical-mapping reactivity profiles for secondary structure; and 215 diverse tertiary structures curated from the PDB. RNAGym is designed to facilitate a systematic comparison of RNA models, offering an essential resource to enhance the understanding and development of these models.

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