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Record W4413780044 · doi:10.1042/bio_2025_135

RNA is a dancer: beyond the one-structure one-function paradigm

2025· article· en· W4413780044 on OpenAlexaff
François Major

Bibliographic record

VenueThe Biochemist · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
TopicRNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
Canadian institutionsUniversité de Montréal
Fundersnot available
KeywordsFunction (biology)Cognitive sciencePsychologyBiologyEvolutionary biology

Abstract

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In the molecular biosciences, RNA often takes center stage in discussions of gene regulation, catalysis, and even inheritance. Yet, the way we conceptualize RNA structure is frequently borrowed, sometimes inappropriately, from our understanding of proteins. Protein structures are iconic in biology: rigid, precisely folded architectures, each typically associated with a single, well-defined function. RNA, on the other hand, plays by different rules. Its structural and functional identity is inherently contextual, dynamic, and multifaceted. This article challenges the widespread but misleading tendency to treat RNA structures as static frameworks like those of proteins. It offers a fresh perspective: RNA is not simply a molecular scaffold to be decoded in 3D; it is a shape-shifting player whose biological relevance arises from its adaptability and responsiveness to the cellular context.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.006
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.005
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.008
Threshold uncertainty score0.031

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0060.005
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0020.001
Bibliometrics0.0020.001
Science and technology studies0.0040.030
Scholarly communication0.0080.020
Open science0.0030.005
Research integrity0.0060.009
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0050.003

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.009
GPT teacher head0.228
Teacher spread0.220 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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