Investigation of RNA-RNA Interactions Using the RISE Database

RNA-RNA interactions (RRIs) are essential to understanding the regulatory mechanisms of RNAs. Mapping RRIs in vivo in a transcriptome-wide manner remained challenging until the recent development of several sequencing-based technologies. However, RRIs generated from large-scale studies had not been systematically collected and analyzed before. This article introduces RISE, a database of the RNA Interactome from Sequencing Experiments. RISE provides a comprehensive collection of RRIs in human, mouse, and yeast, derived from transcriptome-wide sequencing experiments, as well as targeted sequencing studies and other public databases/datasets. To facilitate better understanding of the biological roles of these RRIs, RISE also offers rich functional annotations involving RNAs, and an interactive interface to explore the analysis results. Here, we provide a brief description of the RISE website and a step-by-step protocol for using RISE to study RRIs. © 2018 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.