MirPlex:a tool for identifying miRNAs in high-throughput sRNA datasets without a genome

Mapleson, Daniel, Moxon, Simon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4644-1816, Dalmay, Tamas ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1492-5429 and Moulton, Vincent ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9371-6435 (2013) MirPlex:a tool for identifying miRNAs in high-throughput sRNA datasets without a genome. Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution, 320 (1). pp. 47-56. ISSN 1552-5015

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Abstract

MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are a class of small non-coding RNA (sRNA) involved in gene regulation through mRNA decay and translational repression. In animals, miRNAs have crucial regulatory functions during embryonic development and they have also been implicated in several diseases such as cancer, cardiovascular and neurodegenerative disorders. As such, it is of importance to successfully characterize new miRNAs in order to further study their function. Recent advances in sequencing technologies have made it possible to capture a high-resolution snapshot of the complete sRNA content of an organism or tissue. A common approach to miRNA detection involves searching such data for telltale miRNA signatures. However, current miRNA prediction tools usually require a sequenced genome to analyse regions flanking aligned sRNA reads in order to identify characteristic miRNA hairpin secondary structures. Since only a handful of published genomes are available, there is a need for novel methods to identify miRNAs in sRNA datasets from high-throughput sequencing devices without requiring a reference genome. This paper presents miRPlex, a tool for miRNA prediction that requires only sRNA datasets as input. Mature miRNAs are predicted from such datasets through a multi-stage process, involving filtering, miRNA:miRNA* duplex generation and duplex classification using a support vector machine. Tests on sRNA datasets from model animals demonstrate that the tool is effective at predicting genuine miRNA duplexes, and, for some sets, achieves a high degree of precision when considering only the mature sequence.

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Additional Information: Copyright © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
Uncontrolled Keywords: animals,high-throughput nucleotide sequencing,micrornas,models, genetic,rna, small untranslated,ribonuclease iii,software,sdg 3 - good health and well-being ,/dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/good_health_and_well_being
Faculty \ School: Faculty of Science > School of Computing Sciences
Faculty of Science > School of Biological Sciences
UEA Research Groups: Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Computational Biology > Computational biology of RNA (former - to 2018)
Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Computational Biology > Phylogenetics (former - to 2018)
Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Computational Biology
Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Plant Sciences
Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Norwich Epidemiology Centre
Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Research Groups > Norwich Epidemiology Centre
Depositing User: Pure Connector
Date Deposited: 03 Feb 2014 11:18
Last Modified: 13 Jun 2023 08:12
URI: https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/47442
DOI: 10.1002/jez.b.22483

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