MicroRNA target site identification by integrating sequence and binding information
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Detection of miRNA Targets in High-throughput Using the 3'LIFE Assay
Published on: May 25, 2015
William H Majoros1, Parawee Lekprasert, Neelanjan Mukherjee
1Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA.
Abstract:
High-throughput sequencing has opened numerous possibilities for the identification of regulatory RNA-binding events. Cross-linking and immunoprecipitation of Argonaute proteins can pinpoint a microRNA (miRNA) target site within tens of bases but leaves the identity of the miRNA unresolved. A flexible computational framework, microMUMMIE, integrates sequence with cross-linking features and reliably identifies the miRNA family involved in each binding event. It considerably outperforms sequence-only approaches and quantifies the prevalence of noncanonical binding modes.
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