Review Article

Circular RNAs: Biogenesis, Function, and a Role as Possible Cancer Biomarkers

Table 1

Databases containing circRNA data.

NameURLDescriptionReferences

circ2Traitshttp://gyanxet-beta.com/circdb/A database containing information on disease-associated circRNAs and their complete putative interaction networks with miRNAs, mRNAs, and lncRNAs in specific diseases.[56]
circBasehttp://www.circbase.org/A collection of merged and unified datasets of circRNAs, with evidence supporting their expression[57]
CircInteractomehttps://circinteractome.nia.nih.gov/A web tool designed for predicting and mapping RBP and miRNA binding sites on reported circRNAs[51]
CircNethttp://circnet.mbc.nctu.edu.tw/A database providing information on known and novel circRNAs, circRNA-miRNA-gene regulatory networks, and tissue-specific circRNA expression profiles[58]
CIRCpediahttp://www.picb.ac.cn/rnomics/circpedia/A database holding information on identified and annotated back-splicing and alternative splicing in circRNAs from human, mouse, fly, and worm samples[19]
circRNADbhttp://reprod.njmu.edu.cn/circrnadbA comprehensive database for human circRNAs with protein-coding annotations[59]
starBase v2.0http://starbase.sysu.edu.cn/A database for decoding predicted interaction networks between lncRNAs, miRNAs, circRNAs, mRNAs, and RBPs from large-scale CLIP-seq data[60]
deepBase v2.0http://deepbase.sysu.edu.cn/A platform for annotating, discovering, and characterizing small ncRNAs, lncRNAs, and circRNAs from next-generation sequencing data[61]
TSCDhttp://gb.whu.edu.cn/TSCD/An integrated database designed for depositing features of human and mouse tissue-specific circRNAs[62]