Free energy minimization to predict RNA secondary structures and computational RNA design / Alexander Churkin, Lina Weinbrand, and Danny Barash -- RNA secondary structure prediction from multi-aligned sequences / Michiaki Hamada -- Simple protocol for the inference of RNA global pairwise alignments / Eugenio Mattei, Manuela Helmer-Citterich, and Fabrizio Ferrè -- De novo secondary structure motif discovery using RNA profile / Federico Zambelli and Giulio Pavesi -- Drawing and editing the secondary structure(s) of RNA / Yann Ponty and Fabrice Leclerc -- Modeling and predicting RNA three-dimensional structures / Jérôme Waldispühl and Vladimir Reinharz -- Fast prediction of RNA-RNA interaction using heuristic algorithm / Soheila Montaseri -- Quality control of RNA-Seq experiments / Xing Li ... [and 3 others] -- Accurate mapping of RNA-Seq data / Kin Fai Au -- Quantifying entire transcriptomes by aligned RNA-Seq data / Raffaele A. Calogero and Francesca Zolezzi -- Transcriptome assembly and alternative splicing analysis / Paola Bonizzoni ... [and 5 others] -- Detection of post-transcriptional RNA editing events / Ernesto Picardi ... [and 3 others] -- Prediction of miRNA targets / Anastasis Oulas ... [and 6 others] -- Using deep sequencing data for identification of editing sites in mature miRNAs / Shahar Alon and Eli Eisenberg -- NGS-trex : an automatic analysis workflow for RNA-seq data / Ilenia Boria ... [and 3 others] -- e-DNA meta-barcoding : from NGS raw data to taxonomic profiling / Fosso Bruno, Marzano Marinella, and Monica Santamaria -- Deciphering metatranscriptomic data / Evguenia Kopylova ... [and 6 others] -- RIP-seq data analysis to determine RNA-protein associations / Federico Zambelli and Giulio Pavesi -- ViennaRNA eeb services / Andreas R. Gruber, Stephan H. Bernhart, and Ronny Lorenz -- Exploring the RNA editing potential of RNA-Seq data by ExpEdit / Mattia D'Antonio ... [and 4 others] -- Guideline for the annotation of UTR regulatory elements in the UTRsite collection / Matteo Giulietti ... [and 3 others] -- Rfam : annotating families of non-coding RNA sequences / Jennifer Daub ... [and 3 others] -- ASPicDB : a database web tool for alternative splicing analysis / Mattia D'Antonio ... [and 5 others] -- Analysis of alternative splicing events in custom gene datasets by AStalavista / Sylvain Foissac and Michael Sammeth -- Computational design of artificial RNA molecules for gene regulation / Alessandro Laganà ... [and 6 others].

This volume provides an overview of RNA bioinformatics methodologies, including basic strategies to predict secondary and tertiary structures, and novel algorithms based on massive RNA sequencing.