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Novel RNA Markers in Prostate Cancer: Functional Considerations and Clinical Translation

Table 1

Databases and tools for functional annotation of miRNAs and lncRNAs.

Database nameDescriptionURL

miRNA
TargetScanmiRNA target prediction based on sequence complementarityhttp://www.targetscan.org/
PITAmiRNA target prediction based on target site accessibilityhttp://genie.weizmann.ac.il/pubs/mir07/mir07_data.html
MiRecordsCollection of miRNA target prediction programshttp://mirecords.biolead.org/
MicroPIRPrediction of miRNA-promoter interactionshttp://www4a.biotec.or.th/micropir/
miRvestigatorIdentification of miRNAs responsible for coregulated gene expression patterns discovered through transcriptome profilinghttp://baliga.systemsbiology.net/drupal/content/mirvestigator-web-application-identify-mirnas-responsible-co-regulated-gene-expression
DIANA miRPath v.2.0 Combinatorial effect of microRNAs in pathwayshttp://diana.imis.athena-innovation.gr/DianaTools/index.php?r=mirpath/index
miRGator v2.0Integrated system for functional investigation of microRNAshttp://mirgator.kobic.re.kr/
mirConnXCondition-specific mRNA-microRNA network integratorhttp://mirconnx.csb.pitt.edu/job_config
MAGIA Tool for miRNA and genes integrated analysishttp://gencomp.bio.unipd.it/magia/start/

lncRNA
ChIPBasePlatform decoding transcription factor binding maps, expression profiles, and transcriptional regulation of ncRNAs from ChIP-Seq datahttp://deepbase.sysu.edu.cn/chipbase/
DIANA-LncBaseDatabase for experimentally verified and computationally predicted miRNA targets on lncRNAshttp://www.microrna.gr/LncBase
lncRNomeBiologically oriented knowledge base for lncRNAs in humanshttp://genome.igib.res.in/lncRNome
starBase v2.0RNA interaction networks based on CLIP-Seq datahttp://starbase.sysu.edu.cn/
NONCODE v3.0Expression and functional lncRNA data obtained from reannotated microarray studieshttp://www.noncode.org
lncRNAdbDatabase of annotated eukaryotic lncRNAshttp://www.lncrnadb.org
LncRNADisease database lncRNAs associated with a number of diseaseshttp://www.cuilab.cn/lncrnadisease
Functional lncRNA DatabaseMammalian long non-protein-coding transcripts that have been experimentally shown to be both noncoding and functionalhttp://www.valadkhanlab.org/database
LNCipedia 2.0Database for annotated human lncRNA transcript sequences and structureshttp://www.lncipedia.org
ncRNA Expression Database (NRED)Integration tool for annotated expression data of ncRNAs from mouse and humanhttp://jsm-research.imb.uq.edu.au/nred/cgi-bin/ncrnadb.pl
circBaseDatabase of circular RNAshttp://www.circbase.org
Linc2GOFunctional annotation of human lincRNA based on the ceRNA hypothesishttp://www.bioinfo.tsinghua.edu.cn/~liuke/Linc2GO/index.html
ceRDB-Competing Endogenous
mRNA DataBase/CEFINDER
Web-server for identification of ceRNA for a given mRNA target based on the homology of miRNA binding sites present in the 3′UTR sequencehttp://www.oncomir.umn.edu/cefinder/