C2Analyzer: Co-target–Co-function Analyzer

MicroRNAs (miRNAs) interact with their target mRNAs and regulate biological processes at post-transcriptional level. While one miRNA can target many mRNAs, a single mRNA can also be targeted by a set of miRNAs. The targeted mRNAs may be involved in different biological processes that are described b...

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Main Authors: Md. Aftabuddin, Chittabrata Mal, Arindam Deb, Sudip Kundu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2014-06-01
Series:Genomics, Proteomics & Bioinformatics
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1672022914000461
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author Md. Aftabuddin
Chittabrata Mal
Arindam Deb
Sudip Kundu
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Chittabrata Mal
Arindam Deb
Sudip Kundu
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description MicroRNAs (miRNAs) interact with their target mRNAs and regulate biological processes at post-transcriptional level. While one miRNA can target many mRNAs, a single mRNA can also be targeted by a set of miRNAs. The targeted mRNAs may be involved in different biological processes that are described by gene ontology (GO) terms. The major challenges involved in analyzing these multitude regulations include identification of the combinatorial regulation of miRNAs as well as determination of the co-functionally-enriched miRNA pairs. The C2Analyzer: Co-target–Co-function Analyzer, is a Perl-based, versatile and user-friendly web tool with online instructions. Based on the hypergeometric analysis, this novel tool can determine whether given pairs of miRNAs are co-functionally enriched. For a given set of GO term(s), it can also identify the set of miRNAs whose targets are enriched in the given GO term(s). Moreover, C2Analyzer can also identify the co-targeting miRNA pairs, their targets and GO processes, which they are involved in. The miRNA–miRNA co-functional relationship can also be saved as a .txt file, which can be used to further visualize the co-functional network by using other software like Cytoscape. C2Analyzer is freely available at www.bioinformatics.org/c2analyzer.
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spelling doaj.art-a220024be7d94921b237e43638976f0f2024-02-03T03:18:16ZengElsevierGenomics, Proteomics & Bioinformatics1672-02292014-06-0112313313610.1016/j.gpb.2014.03.003C2Analyzer: Co-target–Co-function AnalyzerMd. Aftabuddin0Chittabrata Mal1Arindam Deb2Sudip Kundu3West Bengal University of Technology, Kolkata 700064, IndiaDepartment of Biophysics, Molecular Biology & Bioinformatics, University of Calcutta, Kolkata 700009, IndiaDepartment of Biophysics, Molecular Biology & Bioinformatics, University of Calcutta, Kolkata 700009, IndiaDepartment of Biophysics, Molecular Biology & Bioinformatics, University of Calcutta, Kolkata 700009, IndiaMicroRNAs (miRNAs) interact with their target mRNAs and regulate biological processes at post-transcriptional level. While one miRNA can target many mRNAs, a single mRNA can also be targeted by a set of miRNAs. The targeted mRNAs may be involved in different biological processes that are described by gene ontology (GO) terms. The major challenges involved in analyzing these multitude regulations include identification of the combinatorial regulation of miRNAs as well as determination of the co-functionally-enriched miRNA pairs. The C2Analyzer: Co-target–Co-function Analyzer, is a Perl-based, versatile and user-friendly web tool with online instructions. Based on the hypergeometric analysis, this novel tool can determine whether given pairs of miRNAs are co-functionally enriched. For a given set of GO term(s), it can also identify the set of miRNAs whose targets are enriched in the given GO term(s). Moreover, C2Analyzer can also identify the co-targeting miRNA pairs, their targets and GO processes, which they are involved in. The miRNA–miRNA co-functional relationship can also be saved as a .txt file, which can be used to further visualize the co-functional network by using other software like Cytoscape. C2Analyzer is freely available at www.bioinformatics.org/c2analyzer.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1672022914000461MicroRNAPost-transcriptional regulationGene ontologyCo-targetCo-function
spellingShingle Md. Aftabuddin
Chittabrata Mal
Arindam Deb
Sudip Kundu
C2Analyzer: Co-target–Co-function Analyzer
Genomics, Proteomics & Bioinformatics
MicroRNA
Post-transcriptional regulation
Gene ontology
Co-target
Co-function
title C2Analyzer: Co-target–Co-function Analyzer
title_full C2Analyzer: Co-target–Co-function Analyzer
title_fullStr C2Analyzer: Co-target–Co-function Analyzer
title_full_unstemmed C2Analyzer: Co-target–Co-function Analyzer
title_short C2Analyzer: Co-target–Co-function Analyzer
title_sort c2analyzer co target co function analyzer
topic MicroRNA
Post-transcriptional regulation
Gene ontology
Co-target
Co-function
url http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1672022914000461
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