A contig-based strategy for the genome-wide discovery of microRNAs without complete genome resources.

MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are important regulators of many cellular processes and exist in a wide range of eukaryotes. High-throughput sequencing is a mainstream method of miRNA identification through which it is possible to obtain the complete small RNA profile of an organism. Currently, most approaches t...

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Main Authors: Jun-Zhi Wen, Jian-You Liao, Ling-Ling Zheng, Hui Xu, Jian-Hua Yang, Dao-Gang Guan, Si-Min Zhang, Hui Zhou, Liang-Hu Qu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3917882?pdf=render