MicroRNA target site identification by integrating sequence and binding information.

Majoros, William H; Lekprasert, Parawee; Mukherjee, Neelanjan; Skalsky, Rebecca L; Corcoran, David L; Cullen, Bryan R; Ohler, Uwe · Nat Methods · 2013

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

High-throughput sequencing has opened numerous possibilities for the identification of regulatory RNA-binding events. Cross-linking and immunoprecipitation of Argonaute proteins can pinpoint a microRNA (miRNA) target site within tens of bases but leaves the identity of the miRNA unresolved. A flexible computational framework, microMUMMIE, integrates sequence with cross-linking features and reliably identifies the miRNA family involved in each binding event. It considerably outperforms sequence-only approaches and quantifies the prevalence of noncanonical binding modes.

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