Agnodice: indexing experimentally supported bacterial sRNA-RNA interactions

Autor: Vasiliki Kotsira, Giorgos Skoufos, Athanasios Alexiou, Maria Zioga, Spyros Tastsoglou, Filippos S. Kardaras, Nikos Perdikopanis, Zacharopoulou Elissavet, Vasileios Gouzouasis, Theodosia Charitou, Artemis G. Hatzigeorgiou
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2024
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Zdroj: mBio, Vol 15, Iss 3 (2024)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2150-7511
DOI: 10.1128/mbio.03010-23
Popis: ABSTRACT In the last decade, the immense growth in the field of bacterial small RNAs (sRNAs), along with the biotechnological breakthroughs in Deep Sequencing permitted the deeper understanding of sRNA-RNA interactions. However, microbiology is currently lacking a thoroughly curated collection of this rapidly expanding universe. We present Agnodice (https://dianalab.e-ce.uth.gr/agnodice), our effort to systematically catalog and annotate experimentally supported bacterial sRNA-RNA interactions. Agnodice, for the first time, incorporates thousands of bacterial sRNA-RNA interactions derived from a diverse set of experimental methodologies including state-of-the-art Deep Sequencing interactome identification techniques. It comprises 39,600 entries which are annotated at strain-level resolution and pertain to 399 sRNAs and 12,137 target RNAs identified in 71 bacterial strains. The database content is exclusively experimentally supported, incorporating interactions derived via low yield as well as state-of-the-art high-throughput methods. The entire content of the database is freely accessible and can be directly downloaded for further analysis. Agnodice will serve as a valuable source, enabling microbiologists to form novel hypotheses, design/identify novel sRNA-based drug targets, and explore the therapeutic potential of microbiomes from the perspective of small regulatory RNAs.IMPORTANCEAgnodice (https://dianalab.e-ce.uth.gr/agnodice) is an effort to systematically catalog and annotate experimentally supported bacterial small RNA (sRNA)-RNA interactions. Agnodice, for the first time, incorporates thousands of bacterial sRNA-RNA interactions derived from a diverse set of experimental methodologies including state-of-the-art Next Generation Sequencing interactome identification techniques.
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