RNAmicro: Hairpins in a Haystack

Recognizing microRNA precursors in comparative genomics data.

If you use RNAmicro please cite the corresponding publication:

Hairpins in a Haystack: recognizing microRNA precursors in comparative genomics data.

RNAmicro is a machine learning tool, with the purpose to distinguish miRNA precursor sequences from other (putative) non-coding RNAs. Based on multiple sequence alignments a support vector machine, trained with all known metazoan miRNA precursor alignments and other non-coding RNAs, returns the probability how likely the input may be a miRNA precursor.

Requirements

• PCRE - Perl Compatible Regular Expressions. Download and documentation: http://www.pcre.org
• Vienna RNA package installed. Download and documentation: http://www.tbi.univie.ac.at/~ivo/RNA/

Download: RNAmicro1.1.3.tar.gz