MiRBaseConverter: an R/Bioconductor package for converting and retrieving miRNA name, accession, sequence and family information in different versions of miRBase.

ABSTRACT:

Background

miRBase is the primary repository for published miRNA sequence and annotation data, and serves as the "go-to" place for miRNA research. However, the definition and annotation of miRNAs have been changed significantly across different versions of miRBase. The changes cause inconsistency in miRNA related data between different databases and articles published at different times. Several tools have been developed for different purposes of querying and converting the information of miRNAs between different miRBase versions, but none of them individually can provide the comprehensive information about miRNAs in miRBase and users will need to use a number of different tools in their analyses.

Results

We introduce miRBaseConverter, an R package integrating the latest miR

SUBMITTER: Xu T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6311916 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature