The OpenHelix Blog

Today’s video tip of the week is on MapMi. This tool is found at EBI and was developed by the Enright lab. The purpose of this tool is a computational system for mapping of miRNAs within and across species. As the abstract of their recent paper says:  Currently miRBase is their primary repository, providing annotations [...]

microRNAs have become a rich source of research as they probably have a huge effect on gene expression and disease. The human genome may encode over 1,000 miRNAs that target over half of our genes. They might be implicated in a lot of common diseases (which not yet have been picked up in GWAS studies?). [...]