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MetaMirClust: Discovery and Exploration of Evolutionarily Conserved miRNA Clusters

Authors : Wen-Ching Chan, Wen-chang Lin

Publisher: Springer New York

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Abstract

Recent emerging studies suggest that a substantial fraction of microRNA (miRNA) genes is likely to form clusters in terms of evolutionary conservation and biological implications, posing a significant challenge for the research community and shifting the bottleneck of scientific discovery from miRNA singletons to miRNA clusters. In addition, the advance in molecular sequencing technique such as next-generation sequencing (NGS) has facilitated researchers to comprehensively characterize miRNAs with low abundance on genome-wide scale in multiple species. Taken together, a large scale, cross-species survey of grouped miRNAs based on genomic location would be valuable for investigating their biological functions and regulations in an evolutionary perspective. In the present chapter, we describe the application of effective and efficient bioinformatics tools on the identification of clustered miRNAs and illustrate how to use the recently developed Web-based database, MetaMirClust (http://fgfr.ibms.sinic.aedu.tw/MetaMirClust) to discover evolutionarily conserved pattern of miRNA clusters across metazoans.

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Title: MetaMirClust: Discovery and Exploration of Evolutionarily Conserved miRNA Clusters
Authors: Wen-Ching Chan
Wen-chang Lin
Publisher: Springer New York
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/7651_2015_237

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