Bioinformatics Softwares and Databases for Non-Coding RNA Research
A special issue of Non-Coding RNA (ISSN 2311-553X). This special issue belongs to the section "Computational Biology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2016) | Viewed by 88877
Special Issue Editors
Interests: bioinformatics; computational RNomics; long non-coding RNAs; microRNAs; competing endogenous RNAs; RNA-binding protein; CLIP-Seq; cancer genomics; regulatory networks
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Eukaryotic genomes encode thousands of small and long non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs), such as microRNAs (miRNAs), PIWI-interacting RNAs (piRNAs), long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs), circular RNAs (circRNAs) and pseudogenes. These RNA molecules are emerging as important regulatory molecules in developmental, physiological, and pathological processes. Recent advances in high-throughput next-generation sequencing technologies have provided new biological insights on the complex regulatory mechanisms of ncRNAs as well as enabled the detection and profiling of known and novel ncRNAs at unprecedented sensitivity and depth. Bioinformatics softwares and databases provide powerful ways to integrate massive datasets that produced by high-throughput experiments to identify novel ncRNAs and explore the expression, evolution, modification, regulatory network, structure and function of diverse ncRNAs, and finally to link these ncRNAs to a variety of diseases, such as cancer, metabolic disorders and neurological diseases .
This special issue of Non-Coding RNA journal will be devoted to original papers and reviews about bioinformatics softwares and resources for non-coding RNA research. This issue emphasis on various types of ncRNAs, such as miRNAs, lncRNAs, circRNAs, eRNAs, piRNAs, snoRNAs, endogenous siRNAs, regulatory small RNAs, pseudogenes, tRNA/snoRNA-derived RNA fragments, etc. The scope of this special issue includes, but is not limited to, the following subjects:
- novel databases or resources of non-coding RNAs
- new softwares or pipelines for identifying novel ncRNAs from next-generation sequencing data or genomic sequences
- predicting the functional targets and interacting RNA-Binding Proteins (RBPs) of ncRNAs
- constructing regulatory networks of ncRNAs and inferring their function
- decoding ncRNA structurome from high-throughput sequencing data
- computational analysis of ncRNA modification
- computational identification of disease-related ncRNAs
Prof. JianHua Yang
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- ncRNA
- miRNA
- lncRNA
- database
- software
- pipeline
- genome-wide sequencing
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