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miRBaseConverter

miRBaseConverter is an R/Bioconductor package for converting and retrieving the definition of miRNAs ( Names, Accessions, Sequences, Families and others) in different miRBase versions ( From miRBase version 6 to version 22 [ The latest version ] ). A tiny built-in database is embedded in the miRBaseConverter R package for retrieving miRNA information efficiently.

Installing miRBaseConverter

devtools::install_github("taoshengxu/miRBaseConverter")

Manual

The tutorial and examples of miRBaseConverter pacakge can be found here.

Shiny application

The online application with interactive interface of this package can be accessed inhttp://nugget.unisa.edu.au:3838/miRBaseConverter or

https://taoshengxu.shinyapps.io/miRBaseConverter/.

Citation

Please cite the following article when using miRBaseConverter:

Taosheng Xu, Ning Su, Lin Liu, Junpeng Zhang, Hongqiang Wang, Weijia Zhang, Jie Gui, Kui Yu, Jiuyong Li and Thuc Duy Le. miRBaseConverter: An R/Bioconductor Package for Converting and Retrieving miRNA Name, Accession, Sequence and Family Information in Different Versions of miRBase. BMC Bioinformatics 19 (Suppl 19) :514. doi: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12859-018-2531-5