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mirMachine: A One-Stop Shop for Plant miRNA Annotation
Published on: May 1, 2021
Method for Detection of miRNAs in Non-Model Organisms with Unreported Database
Parveen Bansal1, Ashish Kumar2, Sudhir Chandna3
1University Centre of Excellence in Research, Baba Farid University of Health Sciences, Faridkot, Punjab, India. bansal66@yahoo.com.
Abstract:
Non-model organisms are studied very frequently, as a simple accessible and convenient system to investigate the role of miRNAs in particular aspect of biology or disease. However, the unavailability of the annotated genome and hence miRNA database of these non-model organisms pose a major constraint for using them more efficiently. Here, we describe a new method to identify miRNAs in non-model organisms without complex sequencing strategies and using miRNAs from close relative organisms as proxy/reference sequences.
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