Aghaee-Bakhtiari Seyed Hamid
Bioinformatics Research Center, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Razavi Khorasan, Iran.
Department of Medical Biotechnology, Faculty of Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Razavi Khorasan, Iran.
Methods Mol Biol. 2019;1970:15-30. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4939-9207-2_2.
MicroRNA (miRNA) studies deliver numerous types of information including miRNA identification, sequence of miRNAs, target prediction, roles in diseases, and interactions in signaling pathways. Considering the different types of miRNA data, the number of miRNA databases has been increasing quickly. While resources have been planned to simplify miRNA analysis, scientists are facing the challenging task of choosing the most proper tool to retrieve related information. In this chapter, we introduce the use of miRandb, a resource that we have established to present an outline of different types of miRNA online resources and to simplify finding the right miRNA information that scientists need for their research. miRandb offers a user-friendly platform to find related information about any miRNA data among more than 188 present miRNA databases. miRandb has an easy procedure, and information can be retrieved by miRNA category resources. Each database comprises numerous kinds of information including database activity, description, main and unique features, organism, URL, publication, category, published year, citations per year, last update, and relative popularity. miRandb provides several opportunities and facilitates access to diverse classes of microRNA resources. miRandb is available at http://miRandb.ir .
微小RNA（miRNA）研究提供了多种类型的信息，包括miRNA鉴定、miRNA序列、靶标预测、在疾病中的作用以及信号通路中的相互作用。考虑到miRNA数据的不同类型，miRNA数据库的数量一直在迅速增加。尽管已经计划了一些资源来简化miRNA分析，但科学家们仍面临着选择最合适工具来检索相关信息的艰巨任务。在本章中，我们介绍miRandb的使用，这是我们建立的一个资源，用于概述不同类型的miRNA在线资源，并简化科学家在研究中所需的正确miRNA信息的查找。miRandb提供了一个用户友好的平台，可在超过188个现有的miRNA数据库中查找有关任何miRNA数据的相关信息。miRandb操作简便，信息可通过miRNA类别资源进行检索。每个数据库都包含多种信息，包括数据库活动、描述、主要和独特特征、生物体、网址、出版物、类别、出版年份、每年引用次数、最后更新时间以及相对受欢迎程度。miRandb提供了多种机会，并便于访问各类微小RNA资源。可通过http://miRandb.ir访问miRandb。
