Special Issue "Small RNA Bioinformatics"
A special issue of Genes (ISSN 2073-4425). This special issue belongs to the section "Technologies and Resources for Genetics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 October 2022) | Viewed by 6350
Special Issue Editors

Interests: microRNAs; small non-coding RNAs; bioinformatics; network analysis; survival data analysis; cancer; adrenocortical carcinoma
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The present Special Issue of Genes aims to gather research on the topic of small non-coding RNAs (sncRNAs) bioinformatics, including the analysis of large-scale data, novel methodology, and databases.
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are near 22 nucleotide long non-coding RNAs which have been proven to be important regulators of many biological processes, both physiological and pathological. Discovered in 1993, miRNAs were recognized as a full class of molecules in 2000, and were proven to be shared by many eukaryote organisms. Since the early 2000s, bioinformatics has always accompanied all steps of miRNA research, including structure inference, profiling and target recognition. New-generation sequencing technologies have boosted the small non-coding RNA research and provide high-throughput datasets which strongly benefit from bioinformatics. miRNAs are part of a larger class of molecules called small non-coding RNAs (sncRNAs for short), which also includes (but is not limited to) piwi-interacting RNAs (piRNAs), small nucleolar RNAs (snoRNAs) and small interfering RNAs (siRNAs).
On the same topic, the small non-coding RNA bioinformatics club organizes free virtual seminars every two months. More information here: https://smallrna-bioinformatics.eu/.
Dr. Laurent Guyon
Dr. Matthias Zytnicki
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- small non-coding RNAs (sncRNAs)
- microRNAs (miRNAs)
- bioinformatics
- sncRNA datasets
- microRNA targets
- database
- webserver