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MicroRNA Amplification and Recognition through Locked-nucleic-acid In situ Hybridization as a Novel Detection and Quantification Method
Published on: October 7, 2025
OncomiRDB: a database for the experimentally verified oncogenic and tumor-suppressive microRNAs
Dongfang Wang1, Jin Gu1, Ting Wang1
1MOE Key Laboratory of Bioinformatics, TNLIST Bioinformatics Division / Center for Synthetic and Systems Biology, Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.
Summary:
MicroRNAs (miRNAs), a class of small regulatory RNAs, play important roles in cancer initiation, progression and therapy. MiRNAs are found to regulate diverse cancer-related processes by targeting a large set of oncogenic and tumor-suppressive genes. To establish a high-confidence reference resource for studying the miRNA-regulated target genes and cellular processes in cancer, we manually curated 2259 entries of cancer-related miRNA regulations with direct experimental evidence from ∼9000 abstracts, covering more than 300 miRNAs and 829 target genes across 25 cancer tissues. A web-based portal named oncomiRDB, which provides both graphical and text-based interfaces, was developed for easily browsing and searching all the annotations. It should be a useful resource for both the computational analysis and experimental study on miRNA regulatory networks and functions in cancer.
Availability And Implementation:
http://bioinfo.au.tsinghua.edu.cn/oncomirdb/
Contact:
jgu@tsinghua.edu.cn
Supplementary Information:
Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
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