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This is the wiki interface of miRDB for miRNA functional annotations. miRNA research is an exciting and rapidly evolving field. As a result, it is challenging for any single team to keep track of all the latest development on miRNA. By providing an open platform using the Wiki model, we invite all miRNA researchers to continuously provide miRNA functional annotations and actively interact with each other. This is a new attempt whose success critically depends on the generous intellectual contributions from many miRNA researchers. A comprehensive and dynamic catalog of miRNA functions will be a great asset to the whole miRNA community. Start contributing today!
If you are new to wiki editing, please refer to the Help on editing page to learn more about some basic editing skills. We have also prepared a Sandbox page for beginners. You may write freely on this page to hone your wiki editing skills. When you are editing a page, you may always undo the unwanted changes (from you or others) by using the history page associated with each article. The main goal of this project is to develop a functional annotation page for every miRNA. Here is an Example page to see what a typical annotation page should look like. Just as for any scientific review papers, it is important to include references to support your claims. Please refer to the Help page to learn more on how to include references in a wiki page.
Wiki is always a community effort. Most pages on this wiki website are editable by anyone (including this Main Page). However, there are also uneditable sections on each miRNA annotation page. Each miRNA page consists of two parts.
- The first section includes information from miRDB high-throughput annotation pipeline. This includes officically adopted information about the miRNAs (miRNA names, Sanger accessions, sequences, genomic locations, clustered miRNAs, etc). In addition, Other functional data (e.g. tissue expression profiles, target predictions) are parsed and included from high-throughput experiments or computational analyses. All these data cannot be changed by individual editors manually. Instead, they are regularly updated by miRDB administrators.
- The second section is open to anyone to provide more functional descriptions on the miRNAs. Please contribute your expert knowledge here. By separating these two parts on miRNA description, miRDB provides a platform to allow both batch updates (based on Sanger database and other high-throughput data) and manual annotations (contributions from individual researchers) at the same time.
Click here to browse all miRNA wiki pages in miRDB.
