URL: | http://ibi.zju.edu.cn/plantcircbase/ |
Full name: | Plant Circular RNA Database |
Description: | PlantcircBase collected publicly available circRNAs identified in recent years from O. sativa, A. thaliana, Zea mays, Solanum lycopersicum, and Hordeum vulgare, as well as unpublished circRNAs. PlantcircBase also provides other functions such as visualization of the structures of circRNA and prediction of circRNAs. PlantcircBase v7.0 contains 171,118 circRNAs from 21 plant species. Over 31,000 of the circRNAs have full-length sequences constructed based on analysis of 749 bulk RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) datasets downloaded from the public domain and Nanopore long-read sequencing results of rice RNAs newly generated in this study. |
Year founded: | 2017 |
Last update: | 2022 |
Version: | v7.0 |
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Country/Region: | China |
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University/Institution: | Zhejiang University |
Address: | Institute of Crop Science and Institute of Bioinformatics, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China. |
City: | Hangzhou |
Province/State: | Zhejiang |
Country/Region: | China |
Contact name (PI/Team): | Qinjie Chu |
Contact email (PI/Helpdesk): | qinjiechu@zju.edu.cn |
PlantcircBase 7.0: Full-length transcripts and conservation of plant circRNAs. [PMID: 35637632]
Circular RNA (circRNA) is a special type of non-coding RNA that participates in diverse biological processes in both animals and plants. Five years ago, we developed a comprehensive plant circRNA database (PlantcircBase), which has attracted much attention from the plant circRNA community. Here, we report an updated PlantcircBase (v.7.0), which contains 171,118 circRNAs from 21 plant species. Over 31,000 of the circRNAs have full-length sequences constructed based on analysis of 749 bulk RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) datasets downloaded from the public domain and Nanopore long-read sequencing results of rice RNAs newly generated in this study. A plant multiple conservation score (PMCS), based on the conservation of both sequence and expression profiles, was calculated for each circRNA to quantify and compare the conservation of all circRNAs. A new parameter, plant circRNA confidence level (PCCL), is introduced to measure the identity reliability of each circRNA based on experimental validation results and the number of references that support the circRNA. All this information and other details of circRNAs can be browsed, searched, and downloaded from PlantcircBase 7.0, which also provides online bioinformatics tools for visualization and sequence alignment. PlantcircBase 7.0 is publicly and freely accessible at http://ibi.zju.edu.cn/plantcircbase/. |
Characteristics of plant circular RNAs. [PMID: 30445438]
Circular RNA (circRNA) is a kind of covalently closed single-stranded RNA molecules that have been proved to play important roles in transcriptional regulation of genes in diverse species. With the rapid development of bioinformatics tools, a huge number (95143) of circRNAs have been identified from different plant species, providing an opportunity for uncovering the overall characteristics of plant circRNAs. Here, based on publicly available circRNAs, we comprehensively analyzed characteristics of plant circRNAs with the help of various bioinformatics tools as well as in-house scripts and workflows, including the percentage of coding genes generating circRNAs, the frequency of alternative splicing events of circRNAs, the non-canonical splicing signals of circRNAs and the networks involving circRNAs, miRNAs and mRNAs. All this information has been integrated into an upgraded online database, PlantcircBase 3.0 (http://ibi.zju.edu.cn/plantcircbase/). In this database, we provided browse, search and visualization tools as well as a web-based blast tool, BLASTcirc, for prediction of circRNAs from query sequences based on searching against plant genomes and transcriptomes. |
PlantcircBase: A Database for Plant Circular RNAs. [PMID: 28315753]
Mol Plant. 2017:10(8)
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