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ArticleBMC bioinformatics2010

miRSel: automated extraction of associations between microRNAs and genes from the biomedical literature.

Haroon Naeem, Robert Küffner, Gergely Csaba, Ralf Zimmer

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Article in BMC bioinformatics, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 41 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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41citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

41 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 90 citations in OpenAlex.

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  9. emiRIT: a text-mining-based resource for microRNA information.Database : the journal of biological databases and curation · 2021
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  19. LimiTT: link miRNAs to targets.BMC bioinformatics · 2016
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Haroon NaeemInstitut für Informatik, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Amalienstr, 17 80333 München, Germany.
Robert Küffner
Gergely Csaba
Ralf Zimmer
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München · DE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundMicroRNAs have been discovered as important regulators of gene expression. To identify the target genes of microRNAs, several databases and prediction algorithms have been developed. Only few experimentally confirmed microRNA targets are available in databases. Many of the microRNA targets stored in databases were derived from large-scale experiments that are considered not very reliable. We propose to use text mining of publication abstracts for extracting microRNA-gene associations including microRNA-target relations to complement current repositories.

resultsThe microRNA-gene association database miRSel combines text-mining results with existing databases and computational predictions. Text mining enables the reliable extraction of microRNA, gene and protein occurrences as well as their relationships from texts. Thereby, we increased the number of human, mouse and rat miRNA-gene associations by at least three-fold as compared to e.g. TarBase, a resource for miRNA-gene associations.

conclusionsOur database miRSel offers the currently largest collection of literature derived miRNA-gene associations. Comprehensive collections of miRNA-gene associations are important for the development of miRNA target prediction tools and the analysis of regulatory networks. miRSel is updated daily and can be queried using a web-based interface via microRNA identifiers, gene and protein names, PubMed queries as well as gene ontology (GO) terms. miRSel is freely available online at http://services.bio.ifi.lmu.de/mirsel.

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SoftwareComputational BiologyDatabases, GeneticData MiningInternetMicroRNAsPubMedSequence Analysis, RNAMicroRNAs

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PMID20233441
PMCPMC2845581
OpenAlexW2135283418

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