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MetaMirClust: Discovery and Exploration of Evolutionarily Conserved miRNA Clusters

verfasst von : Wen-Ching Chan, Wen-chang Lin

Verlag: 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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Metadaten
Titel
MetaMirClust: Discovery and Exploration of Evolutionarily Conserved miRNA Clusters
verfasst von
Wen-Ching Chan
Wen-chang Lin
Copyright-Jahr
2015
Verlag
Springer New York
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/7651_2015_237