miRBase: from microRNA sequences to function
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miRGeneDB has clearly established itself as the resource for bona fide miRNAs, while miRBase still includes scores of dubiously identified miRNAs.
“miRGeneDB has clearly established itself as the resource for bona fide miRNAs, while miRBase still includes scores of dubiously identified miRNAs [6, 14, 16, 31, 32].”
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- Authors
- Kozomara, A., Birgaoanu, M., & Griffiths-Jones, S.
- Affiliations
- School of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PT, UK
- Venue
- Nucleic Acids Research
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 2018-11-13
- Volume
- 47
- Issue
- D1
- Pages
- D155-D162
- ISSN
- 0305-1048
- 1362-4962
- PMC
- PMC6323917
- Cited by
- 4,684
- References
- 1
- Language
- en
- Funders
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BB/G022623/1)
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