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Release 15: April 2010

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NetWatch - Science 303:1741 (2004)

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News - release 15

The long-overdue miRBase 15 release is finally here. This is a significant update, with over 3000 new hairpin sequences and more than 4000 new mature sequences. As usual, please contact us (mirbase@manchester.ac.uk) with questions, comments or problems.

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References

If you make use of the data presented here, please cite the following articles in addition to the primary data sources:

miRBase: tools for microRNA genomics.
Griffiths-Jones S, Saini HK, van Dongen S, Enright AJ.
NAR 2008 36(Database Issue):D154-D158

miRBase: microRNA sequences, targets and gene nomenclature.
Griffiths-Jones S, Grocock RJ, van Dongen S, Bateman A, Enright AJ.
NAR 2006 34(Database Issue):D140-D144

The microRNA Registry.
Griffiths-Jones S.
NAR 2004 32(Database Issue):D109-D111

The following publication provides guidelines on miRNA annotation:

A uniform system for microRNA annotation.
Ambros V, Bartel B, Bartel DP, Burge CB, Carrington JC, Chen X, Dreyfuss G, Eddy SR, Griffiths-Jones S, Marshall M, Matzke M, Ruvkun G, Tuschl T.
RNA 2003 9(3):277-279