Bias in recent miRBase annotations potentially associated with RNA quality issues

Scientific Reports

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Ludwig, Nicole ^a   Becker, Meike ^a   Schumann, Timo ^a   Speer, Timo ^a   Fehlmann, Tobias ^b   Keller, Andreas ^b   Meese, Eckart ^a  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA;

ANIMAL; BIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOUSE; NUCLEIC ACID DATABASE; PROCEDURES; STANDARDS;

ANIMALS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATABASES, NUCLEIC ACID; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; MICE; MICRORNAS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION;

EID: 85024090824     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-05070-0     Document Type: Article

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