RNAs Associated with Genes Associated with Twister and Hammerhead ribozymes (RAGATH) refers to a bioinformatics strategy that was devised to find self-cleaving ribozymes in bacteria.

[1] It also refers to candidate RNAs, or RAGATH RNA motifs, discovered using this strategy.

[2] These genetic elements include several gene classes, many of which are characteristic of Mu-like phages.

Given these observations, researchers hypothesized that other classes of self-cleaving ribozymes would also associate with these genetic elements.

Therefore, searches were conducted on the non-coding regions nearby to the associated genetic elements to find conserved RNA structures using a previously established method.