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iCLIP - Transcriptome-wide Mapping of Protein-RNA Interactions with Individual Nucleotide Resolution
Published on: April 30, 2011
Bioinformatic tools for analysis of CLIP ribonucleoprotein data
1Laboratory of Genetics and Genomics, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Abstract:
Investigating the interactions of RNA-binding proteins (RBPs) with RNAs is a complex task for molecular and computational biologists. The molecular biology techniques and the computational approaches to understand RBP-RNA (or ribonucleoprotein, RNP) interactions have advanced considerably over the past few years and numerous and diverse software tools have been developed to analyze these data. Accordingly, laboratories interested in RNP biology face the challenge of choosing adequately among the available software tools those that best address the biological problem they are studying. Here, we focus on state-of-the-art molecular biology techniques that employ crosslinking and immunoprecipitation (CLIP) of an RBP to study and map RNP interactions. We review the different software tools and databases available to analyze the most widely used CLIP methods, HITS-CLIP, PAR-CLIP, and iCLIP. WIREs RNA 2017, 8:e1404. doi: 10.1002/wrna.1404 For further resources related to this article, please visit the WIREs website.
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