MiRBase
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| Description | microRNA annotation and deep-sequencing data. |
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| Research center | University of Manchester |
| Laboratory | Faculty of Life Sciences |
| Authors | Ana Kozomara |
| Primary citation | Kozomara & al. (2011)[1] |
| Release date | 2010 |
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| Website | http://www.mirbase.org/ |
In bioinformatics, miRBase is a biological database that acts as an archive of microRNA sequences and annotations.[1][2][3][4] As of September 2010 it contained information about 15,172 microRNAs.[1] The miRBase registry provides a centralised system for assigning new names to microRNA genes.[5]
miRBase grew from the microRNA registry resource set up by Sam Griffiths-Jones in 2003.[6]
According to Kozomara and Griffiths-Jones miRBase has five aims:[1]
- To provide a consistent naming system for microRNAs
- To provide a central place collecting all known microRNA sequences
- To provide human and computer readable information for each microRNA
- To provide primary evidence for each microRNA
- To aggregate and link to microRNA target information
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