sRNATarBase: a comprehensive database of bacterial sRNA targets verified by experiments
Bacterial sRNAs are an emerging class of small regulatory RNAs, 40-500 nt in length, which play a variety of important roles in many biological processes through binding to their mRNA or protein targets. A comprehensive database of experimentally confirmed sRNA targets would be helpful in understand...
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Published in | RNA (Cambridge) Vol. 16; no. 11; pp. 2051 - 2057 |
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Main Authors | , , , , , , , |
Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
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United States
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press
01.11.2010
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Summary: | Bacterial sRNAs are an emerging class of small regulatory RNAs, 40-500 nt in length, which play a variety of important roles in many biological processes through binding to their mRNA or protein targets. A comprehensive database of experimentally confirmed sRNA targets would be helpful in understanding sRNA functions systematically and provide support for developing prediction models. Here we report on such a database--sRNATarBase. The database holds 138 sRNA-target interactions and 252 noninteraction entries, which were manually collected from peer-reviewed papers. The detailed information for each entry, such as supporting experimental protocols, BLAST-based phylogenetic analysis of sRNA-mRNA target interaction in closely related bacteria, predicted secondary structures for both sRNAs and their targets, and available binding regions, is provided as accurately as possible. This database also provides hyperlinks to other databases including GenBank, SWISS-PROT, and MPIDB. The database is available from the web page http://ccb.bmi.ac.cn/srnatarbase/. |
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Bibliography: | ObjectType-Article-1 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-2 content type line 23 These authors contributed equally to this work. Reprint requests to: WuJu Li, Center of Computational Biology, Beijing Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Taiping Road 27, Haidian District, Beijing, 100850, China; e-mail: liwj@nic.bmi.ac.cn; fax: 86 10 68213039. |
ISSN: | 1355-8382 1469-9001 |
DOI: | 10.1261/rna.2193110 |