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Description | microRNA annotation and deep-sequencing data. |
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Research center | University of Manchester |
Laboratory | Faculty of Life Sciences |
Authors | Ana Kozomara |
Primary citation | Kozomara & al. (2011) |
Release date | 2010 |
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Website | http://www.mirbase.org/ |
In bioinformatics, miRBase is a biological database that acts as an archive of microRNA sequences and annotations. As of September 2010 it contained information about 15,172 microRNAs. The miRBase registry provides a centralised system for assigning new names to microRNA genes.
miRBase grew from the microRNA registry resource set up by Sam Griffiths-Jones in 2003.
According to Kozomara and Griffiths-Jones miRBase has five aims: