Degradome assisted plant MicroRNA prediction under alternative annotation criteria

Alzahrani, Salma, Applegate, Christopher, Swarbreck, David, Dalmay, Tamas ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1492-5429, Folkes, Leighton and Moulton, Vincent ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9371-6435 (2022) Degradome assisted plant MicroRNA prediction under alternative annotation criteria. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, 19 (6). pp. 3374-3383. ISSN 1545-5963

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Abstract

Current microRNA (miRNA) prediction methods are generally based on annotation criteria that tend to miss potential functional miRNAs. Recently, new miRNA annotation criteria have been proposed that could lead to improvements in miRNA prediction methods in plants. Here, we investigate the effect of the new criteria on miRNA prediction in Arabidopsis thaliana and present a new degradome assisted functional miRNA prediction approach. We investigated the effect by applying the new criteria, and a more permissive criteria on miRNA prediction using existing miRNA prediction tools. We also developed an approach to miRNA prediction that is assisted by the functional information extracted from the analysis of degradome sequencing. We demonstrate the improved performance of degradome assisted miRNA prediction compared to unassisted prediction and evaluate the approach using miRNA differential expression analysis. We observe how the miRNA predictions fit under the different criteria and show a potential novel miRNA that has been missed within Arabidopsis thaliana. Additionally, we introduce a freely available software ‘PAREfirst’ that employs the degradome assisted approach. The study shows that some miRNAs could be missed due to the stringency of the former annotation criteria, and combining a degradome assisted approach with more permissive miRNA criteria can expand confident miRNA predictions.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: arabidopsis,degradome,dicer,microrna (mirna) prediction,next-generation sequencing (ngs),parallel analysis of rna ends (pare),software,biotechnology,genetics,applied mathematics ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/1300/1305
Faculty \ School: Faculty of Science > School of Computing Sciences
Faculty of Science > School of Biological Sciences
UEA Research Groups: 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
Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Computational Biology
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Depositing User: LivePure Connector
Date Deposited: 24 Sep 2021 01:05
Last Modified: 15 Jun 2023 00:14
URI: https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/81507
DOI: 10.1109/TCBB.2021.3115023

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