• Accurate microRNA annotation of animal genomes using trained covariance models of curated microRNA complements in MirMachine 

      Umu, Sinan Ugur; Paynter, Vanessa Molin; Trondsen, Håvard; Buschmann, Tilo; Rounge, Trine Ballestad; Peterson, Kevin J.; Fromm, Bastian (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-06-23)
      The annotation of microRNAs depends on the availability of transcriptomics data and expert knowledge. This has led to a gap between the availability of novel genomes and high-quality microRNA complements. Using >16,000 microRNAs from the manually curated microRNA gene database MirGeneDB, we generated trained covariance models for all conserved microRNA families. These models are available in our ...
    • MirGeneDB 2.1: toward a complete sampling of all major animal phyla 

      Fromm, Bastian; Høye, Eirik; Domanska, Diana; Zhong, Xiangfu; Aparicio-Puerta, Ernesto; Ovchinnikov, Vladimir; Umu, Sinan Ugur; Chabot, Peter J; Kang, Wenjing; Aslanzadeh, Morteza; Marmol-Sanchez, Emilio; Urgese, Gianvito; Johansen, Morten; Hovig, Eivind; Hackenberg, Michael; Friedländer, Marc R.; Peterson, Kevin (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-11-25)
      We describe an update of MirGeneDB, the manually curated microRNA gene database. Adhering to uniform and consistent criteria for microRNA annotation and nomenclature, we substantially expanded MirGeneDB with 30 additional species representing previously missing metazoan phyla such as sponges, jellyfish, rotifers and flatworms. MirGeneDB 2.1 now consists of 75 species spanning over ∼800 million ...