Nikita Vostrosablin, Shuhui Lim, Pooja Gopal, Kveta Brazdilova, Sushmita Parajuli, Xiaona Wei, Anna Gromek, David Prihoda, Martin Spale, Anja Muzdalo, Jamie Greig, Constance Yeo, Joanna Wardyn, Petr Mejzlik, Brian Henry, Anthony W Partridge, Danny A Bitton
Recent COVID-19 vaccines unleashed the potential of mRNA-based therapeutics. A common bottleneck across mRNA-based therapeutic approaches is the rapid design of mRNA sequences that are translationally efficient, long-lived and non-immunogenic. Currently, an accessible software tool to aid in the design of such high-quality mRNA is lacking. Here, we present mRNAid, an open-source platform for therapeutic mRNA optimization, design and visualization that offers a variety of optimization strategies for sequence and structural features, allowing one to customize desired properties into their mRNA sequence...
March 2024: NAR genomics and bioinformatics