- Title
- Identifying miRNAs, targets and functions
- Creator
- Liu, Bing; Li, Jiuyong; Cairns, Murray J.
- Relation
- NHMRC.631057
- Relation
- Briefings in Bioinformatics Vol. 15, Issue 1, p. 1-19
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bib/bbs075
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2014
- Description
- MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small endogenous non-coding RNAs that function as the universal specificity factors in post-transcriptional gene silencing. Discovering miRNAs, identifying their targets and further inferring miRNA functions have been a critical strategy for understanding normal biological processes of miRNAs and their roles in the development of disease. In this review, we focus on computationalmethods of inferringmiRNA functions, including miRNA functional annotation and inferring miRNA regulatory modules, by integrating heterogeneous data sources.We also briefly introduce the research in miRNA discovery and miRNA-target identification with an emphasis on the challenges to computational biology.
- Subject
- miRNA; functional annotation; functionalmiRNA-mRNA regulatorymodules
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1304505
- Identifier
- uon:20860
- Identifier
- ISSN:1467-5463
- Language
- eng
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