Researchers from the Institute of Experimental Biology and Technology, Portugal introduce miRPursuit, a pipeline developed for running end-to-end analyses of high-throughput small RNA...
Read More »Limitation of alignment-free tools in total RNA-seq quantification
Alignment-free RNA quantification tools have significantly increased the speed of RNA-seq analysis. However, it is unclear whether these state-of-the-art RNA-seq analysis pipelines can quantify...
Read More »SomaGenics Awarded NIH Funding to Develop NGS Single-Cell Analysis of Small RNAs
SomaGenics announced the receipt of a Phase I SBIR grant from the NIH to develop RealSeq®-SC (Single Cell), expected to be the first commercially available library preparation kit for profiling small RNAs (including microRNAs) from single cells using NGS methods. ...
Read More »Considerations and complications of mapping small RNA high-throughput data to transposable elements
High-throughput sequencing (HTS) has revolutionized the way in which epigenetic research is conducted. When coupled with fully-sequenced genomes, millions of small RNA (sRNA) reads are mapped to regions of interest and the results scrutinized for clues about epigenetic mechanisms. However, ...
Read More »Rubicon Genomics Licenses Commercialization Rights From SomaGenics for Its RealSeq®-AC Technology for Small RNA-Seq
SANTA CRUZ, Calif., July 28, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — SomaGenics Inc. today announced that it has signed a licensing agreement with Rubicon Genomics, Inc. for commercialization of SomaGenics’ RealSeq®-AC library preparation technology for sequencing small RNAs, including micro-RNAs and small fragments of ...
Read More »Current approaches underestimate reproducibly detected RNAs that are shorter than 18 nt
Small RNAs regulate gene expression and most genes in the worm Caenorhabditis elegans are subject to their regulation. Here, researchers from the University of Maryland analyze small RNA data sets and use reproducible features of RNAs present in multiple data ...
Read More »deepBase v2.0 – identification, expression, evolution and function of small RNAs, LncRNAs and circular RNAs from deep-sequencing data
Small non-coding RNAs (e.g. miRNAs) and long non-coding RNAs (e.g. lincRNAs and circRNAs) are emerging as key regulators of various cellular processes. However, only a very small fraction of these enigmatic RNAs have been well functionally characterized. Researchers from the ...
Read More »miRseqViewer – Multi-panel visualization of sequence, structure and expression for analysis of microRNA sequencing data
Deep sequencing of small RNAs has become a routine process in recent years, but no dedicated viewer is as yet available to explore the sequence features simultaneously along with secondary structure and gene expression of microRNA (miRNA). A team led ...
Read More »RNA-Seq of the Nucleolus Reveals Abundant SNORD44-Derived Small RNAs
Small non-coding RNAs represent RNA species that are not translated to proteins, but which have diverse and broad functional activities in physiological and pathophysiological states. The knowledge of these small RNAs is rapidly expanding in part through the use of ...
Read More »Improved Small RNA Library Preparation Workflows for Next Generation Sequencing
MicroRNAs play an important role in regulation and disease progression, and thus are increasingly being characterized by next-generation sequencing (NGS). One of the challenges in deep sequencing of the small RNAs (small RNA-Seq) is in the sample preparation workflow. This ...
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