Generation of RNA pseudoknot structures with topological genus filtration

In this paper we present a sampling framework for RNA structures of fixed topological genus. We introduce a novel, linear time, uniform sampling algorithm for RNA structures of fixed topological genus g, for arbitrary g>0. Furthermore we develop a linear time sampling algorithm for RNA structures of fixed topological genus g that are weighted by a simplified, loop-based energy functional. For this process the partition function of the energy functional has to be computed once, which has O(n2) time complexity.