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ArticleBMC bioinformatics2006

RiboaptDB: a comprehensive database of ribozymes and aptamers.

Venkata Thodima, Mehdi Pirooznia, Youping Deng

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Article in BMC bioinformatics, 2006. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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8 citing papers in PubMed, 34 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. In vitro selection of aptamers and their applications.Nature reviews. Methods primers · 2023
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  3. Analysis of In Vitro Aptamer Selection Parameters.Journal of molecular evolution · 2015
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  4. Aptamer Base: a collaborative knowledge base to describe aptamers and SELEX experiments.Database : the journal of biological databases and curation · 2012
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Venkata ThodimaDepartment of Biological Sciences, University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, Mississippi 39406, USA. youping.deng@usm.edu
Mehdi Pirooznia
Youping Deng
University of Southern Mississippi · US

Funding

TOUGALOO PROTEOMICSP20RR016476 · NCRR · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI · PI SHEARER, GLEN · 2001 to 2011
$30.4M
NCRR NIH HHS 2P20RR016476-04NCRR NIH HHS P20 RR016476
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundCatalytic RNA molecules are called ribozymes. The aptamers are DNA or RNA molecules that have been selected from vast populations of random sequences, through a combinatorial approach known as SELEX. The selected oligo-nucleotide sequences (~200 bp in length) have the ability to recognize broad range of specific ligands by forming binding pockets. These novel aptamer sequences can bind to nucleic acids, proteins or small organic and inorganic chemical compounds and have many potential uses in medicine and technology.

resultsThe comprehensive sequence information on aptamers and ribozymes that have been generated by in vitro selection methods are included in this RiboaptDB database. Such types of unnatural data generated by in vitro methods are not available in the public 'natural' sequence databases such as GenBank and EMBL. The amount of sequence data generated by in vitro selection experiments has been accumulating exponentially. There are 370 artificial ribozyme sequences and 3842 aptamer sequences in the total 4212 sequences from 423 citations in this RiboaptDB. We included general search feature, and individual feature wise search, user submission form for new data through online and also local BLAST search.

conclusionThis database, besides serving as a storehouse of sequences that may have diagnostic or therapeutic utility in medicine, provides valuable information for computational and theoretical biologists. The RiboaptDB is extremely useful for garnering information about in vitro selection experiments as a whole and for better understanding the distribution of functional nucleic acids in sequence space. The database is updated regularly and is publicly available at http://mfgn.usm.edu/ebl/riboapt/.

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Databases, Nucleic AcidAptamers, NucleotideComputational BiologyInternetRNA, CatalyticSequence Analysis, DNASoftware DesignAptamers, NucleotideRNA, Catalytic

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PMID17118149
PMCPMC1683567
OpenAlexW2050568143

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