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miRò

General information

URL: http://ferrolab.dmi.unict.it/miro;;http://ferrolab.dmi.unict.it/miro
Full name: a miRNA knowledge base
Description: miRò is a web-based knowledge base that provides users with miRNA-phenotype associations in humans. It integrates data from various online sources, such as databases of miRNAs, ontologies, diseases and targets, into a unified database equipped with an intuitive and flexible query interface and data mining facilities.
Year founded: 2009
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Country/Region: Italy

Classification & Tag

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RNA
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Contact information

University/Institution: University of Catania
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Country/Region: Italy
Contact name (PI/Team): A. Laganà
Contact email (PI/Helpdesk): lagana@dmi.unict.it

Publications

20157481
miRò: a miRNA knowledge base. [PMID: 20157481]
Laganà A, Forte S, Giudice A, Arena MR, Puglisi PL, Giugno R, Pulvirenti A, Shasha D, Ferro A.

miRò is a web-based knowledge base that provides users with miRNA-phenotype associations in humans. It integrates data from various online sources, such as databases of miRNAs, ontologies, diseases and targets, into a unified database equipped with an intuitive and flexible query interface and data mining facilities. The main goal of miRò is the establishment of a knowledge base which allows non-trivial analysis through sophisticated mining techniques and the introduction of a new layer of associations between genes and phenotypes inferred based on miRNAs annotations. Furthermore, a specificity function applied to validated data highlights the most significant associations. The miRò web site is available at: http://ferrolab.dmi.unict.it/miro.Database URL:http://ferrolab.dmi.unict.it/miro.

Database (Oxford). 2009:2009() | 70 Citations (from Europe PMC, 2025-12-20)

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2612/6895 (62.132%)
Metadata:
261/719 (63.839%)
2612
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70
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Created on: 2018-01-28
Curated by:
Zhuang Xiong [2018-02-24]
Zhaohua Li [2018-01-28]