miRBaseConverter: an R/Bioconductor package for converting and retrieving miRNA name, accession, sequence and family information in different versions of miRBase

miRBaseConverter: an R/Bioconductor package for converting and retrieving miRNA name, accession, sequence and family information in different versions of miRBase

Abstract Background miRBase is the primary repository for published miRNA sequence and annotation data, and serves as the “go-to” place for miRNA research. However, the definition and annotation of miRNAs have been changed significantly across different versions of miRBase. The changes cause inconsi...

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Main Authors: Taosheng Xu, Ning Su, Lin Liu, Junpeng Zhang, Hongqiang Wang, Weijia Zhang, Jie Gui, Kui Yu, Jiuyong Li, Thuc Duy Le
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2018-12-01
Series:BMC Bioinformatics
Subjects:
miRNA
miRBase repository
Annotation
miRNA information retrieval
miRNA family
Bioinformatics
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12859-018-2531-5

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