piRBase: integrating piRNA annotation in all aspects

J Wang, Y Shi, H Zhou, P Zhang, T Song… - Nucleic acids …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Piwi-interacting RNAs are a type of small noncoding RNA that have various functions.
piRBase is a manually curated resource focused on assisting piRNA functional analysis …

piRBase: a comprehensive database of piRNA sequences

J Wang, P Zhang, Y Lu, Y Li, Y Zheng… - Nucleic acids …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
PIWI-interacting RNAs are a class of small RNAs that is most abundantly expressed in
animal germline. Substantial research is going on to reveal the functions of piRNAs in the …

piRDisease v1. 0: a manually curated database for piRNA associated diseases

A Muhammad, R Waheed, NA Khan, H Jiang… - Database, 2019 - academic.oup.com
In recent years, researches focusing on PIWI-interacting RNAs (piRNAs) have increased
rapidly. It has been revealed that piRNAs have strong association with a wide range of …

Computational methods and online resources for identification of piRNA-related molecules

Y Liu, A Li, G Xie, G Liu, X Hei - Interdisciplinary sciences: computational …, 2021 - Springer
Abstract piRNAs are a class of small non-coding RNA molecules, which interact with the
PIWI family and have many important and diverse biological functions. The present review is …

A review of discovery profiling of PIWI-interacting RNAs and their diverse functions in metazoans

S Huang, K Yoshitake, S Asakawa - International Journal of Molecular …, 2021 - mdpi.com
PIWI-interacting RNAs (piRNAs) are a class of small non-coding RNAs (sncRNAs) that
perform crucial biological functions in metazoans and defend against transposable elements …

piRNAclusterDB 2.0: update and expansion of the piRNA cluster database

D Rosenkranz, H Zischler, D Gebert - Nucleic Acids Research, 2022 - academic.oup.com
PIWI-interacting RNAs (piRNAs) and their partnering PIWI proteins defend the animal
germline against transposable elements and play a crucial role in fertility. Numerous studies …

piRNAQuest: searching the piRNAome for silencers

A Sarkar, RK Maji, S Saha, Z Ghosh - BMC genomics, 2014 - Springer
Abstract Background PIWI-interacting RNA (piRNA) is a novel and emerging class of small
non-coding RNA (sncRNA). Ranging in length from 26-32 nucleotides, this sncRNA is a …

Towards a piRNA prediction using multiple kernel fusion and support vector machine

J Brayet, F Zehraoui, L Jeanson-Leh, D Israeli… - …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Motivation: Piwi-interacting RNA (piRNA) is the most recently discovered and the
least investigated class of Argonaute/Piwi protein-interacting small non-coding RNAs. The …

Prediction of piRNAs using transposon interaction and a support vector machine

K Wang, C Liang, J Liu, H Xiao, S Huang, J Xu, F Li - BMC bioinformatics, 2014 - Springer
Abstract Background Piwi-interacting RNAs (piRNAs) are a class of small non-coding RNA
primarily expressed in germ cells that can silence transposons at the post-transcriptional …

proTRAC-a software for probabilistic piRNA cluster detection, visualization and analysis

D Rosenkranz, H Zischler - BMC bioinformatics, 2012 - Springer
Background Throughout the metazoan lineage, typically gonadal expressed Piwi proteins
and their guiding piRNAs (~ 26-32nt in length) form a protective mechanism of RNA …