miEAA 2023: updates, new functional microRNA sets and improved enrichment visualizations. Aparicio-Puerta, E., Hirsch, P., Schmartz, G., Kern, F., Fehlmann, T., & Keller, A. Nucleic Acids Research, 05, 2023.
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MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small non-coding RNAs that play a critical role in regulating diverse biological processes. Extracting functional insights from a list of miRNAs is challenging, as each miRNA can potentially interact with hundreds of genes. To address this challenge, we developed miEAA, a flexible and comprehensive miRNA enrichment analysis tool based on direct and indirect miRNA annotation. The latest release of miEAA includes a data warehouse of 19 miRNA repositories, covering 10 different organisms and 139 399 functional categories. We have added information on the cellular context of miRNAs, isomiRs, and high-confidence miRNAs to improve the accuracy of the results. We have also improved the representation of aggregated results, including interactive Upset plots to aid users in understanding the interaction among enriched terms or categories. Finally, we demonstrate the functionality of miEAA in the context of ageing and highlight the importance of carefully considering the miRNA input list. MiEAA is free to use and publicly available at https://www.ccb.uni-saarland.de/mieaa/.
@article{puerta123,
	author = {Aparicio-Puerta, Ernesto and Hirsch, Pascal and Schmartz, Georges and Kern, Fabian and Fehlmann, Tobias and Keller, Andreas},
	year = {2023},
	month = {05},
	abstract = "{MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small non-coding RNAs that play a critical role in regulating diverse biological processes. Extracting functional insights from a list of miRNAs is challenging, as each miRNA can potentially interact with hundreds of genes. To address this challenge, we developed miEAA, a flexible and comprehensive miRNA enrichment analysis tool based on direct and indirect miRNA annotation. The latest release of miEAA includes a data warehouse of 19 miRNA repositories, covering 10 different organisms and 139 399 functional categories. We have added information on the cellular context of miRNAs, isomiRs, and high-confidence miRNAs to improve the accuracy of the results. We have also improved the representation of aggregated results, including interactive Upset plots to aid users in understanding the interaction among enriched terms or categories. Finally, we demonstrate the functionality of miEAA in the context of ageing and highlight the importance of carefully considering the miRNA input list. MiEAA is free to use and publicly available at https://www.ccb.uni-saarland.de/mieaa/.}",
	pages = {},
	title = {miEAA 2023: updates, new functional microRNA sets and improved enrichment visualizations},
	journal = {Nucleic Acids Research},
    	url = {https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkad392},
	doi = {10.1093/nar/gkad392}
}

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