Nc2Eye: A Curated ncRNAomics Knowledgebase for Bridging Basic and Clinical Research in Eye Diseases

• Published in: Frontiers in cell and developmental biology Vol. 8; p. 75
• Main Authors: Zhang, Yan, Xue, Zhengbo, Guo, Fangjie, Yu, Fulong, Xu, Liangde, Chen, Hao
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Switzerland Frontiers Media S.A 14.02.2020
• Subjects: Cell and Developmental Biology; epigenomics; eye diseases; knowledgebase; non-coding RNAs; website; epigenomics; eye diseases; website; knowledgebase; non-coding RNAs
• ISSN: 2296-634X; 2296-634X
• DOI: 10.3389/fcell.2020.00075

Eye diseases (EDs) represent a group of disorders affecting the visual system, most of which can lead to visual impairment and blindness. Accumulating evidence reveals that non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs) are closely associated with a wide variety of EDs. However, abundant associations between ncRNAs and EDs are scattered across the published literature, obstructing a global view of ncRNA-ED associations. A public resource of high-quality manually curated ncRNAomics knowledge associated with EDs remains unavailable. To address this gap, we thus developed Nc2Eye (http://nc2eye.bio-data.cn/), which is the first knowledgebase dedicated to providing a comprehensive ncRNAomics resource for bridging basic and clinical research in EDs. Through a comprehensive review of more than 2400 published papers, Nc2Eye catalogs 7088 manually curated ncRNA-ED associations involving 4363 ncRNAs across eight species. We also provide detailed descriptions and annotation information for each ncRNA-disease association such as ncRNA categories, experimental methods, expression pattern and related clinical drugs. To further expand the pathogenic ncRNAs, we also collected more than 90 high-throughput EDs-related transcriptome datasets. Furthermore, a user-friendly interface was constructed for convenient and flexible data browsing, querying, and retrieving. We believe that Nc2Eye is a timely and valuable knowledgebase for significantly improving and useful for discovery of new diagnostic and therapeutic biomarkers.