starBase: a database for exploring microRNA–mRNA interaction maps

starBase: a database for exploring microRNA–mRNA interaction maps from Argonaute CLIP-Seq and Degradome-Seq data

UPDATE: starBase v2.0 released

Assigning miRNAs to their regulatory target genes remains technically challenging. Recently, high-throughput CLIP-Seq and degradome sequencing (Degradome-Seq) methods have been applied to identify the sites of Argonaute interaction and miRNA cleavage sites, respectively.

Researchers at Sun Yat-sen University, China have developed a novel database, starBase (sRNA target Base), to facilitate the comprehensive exploration of miRNA–target interaction maps from CLIP-Seq and Degradome-Seq data. The current version includes high-throughput sequencing data generated from 21 CLIP-Seq and 10 Degradome-Seq experiments from six organisms. By analyzing millions of mapped CLIP-Seq and Degradome-Seq reads, the authors identified ∼1 million Ago-binding clusters and ∼2 million cleaved target clusters in animals and plants, respectively. Analyses of these clusters, and of target sites predicted by 6 miRNA target prediction programs, resulted in identification of approximately 400 000 and approximately 66 000 miRNA-target regulatory relationships from CLIP-Seq and Degradome-Seq data, respectively.

Two web servers are provided to discover novel miRNA target sites from CLIP-Seq and Degradome-Seq data. The web implementation supports diverse query types and exploration of common targets, gene ontologies and pathways.

The starBase is available at http://starbase.sysu.edu.cn/.

Yang JH, Li JH, Shao P, Zhou H, Chen YQ, Qu LH. (2010) starBase: a database for exploring microRNA-mRNA interaction maps from Argonaute CLIP-Seq and Degradome-Seq data. Nucleic Acids Res [Epub ahead of print]. [article]

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