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Small interfering RNA (siRNA), sometimes known as short interfering RNA or silencing RNA, is a class of double-stranded RNA molecules, 20-25 base pairs in length. siRNA is similar to miRNA, and operates within the RNA interference (RNAi) pathway, where it interferes with the expression of specific genes with complementary nucleotide sequences by degrading mRNA after transcription, resulting in no translation. [Source: Wikipedia]

DSTHO

Submitted by ChenLiang on Fri, 09/02/2016 - 21:59

Existing treatments of human cancer, which is characterized by abnormal proliferation of cells often lead to fatal outcomes. Sequence selective silencing of oncogene expression using siRNA technology is emerging as a potential solution for cancer treatment. The exclusive selectivity and easy application to virtually any therapeutic target including intracellular factors and transcription factors renders siRNA oligonucleotide applications very promising. However, synthesis of siRNA having sufficient knockdown efficiency is laborious and cost intensive.

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rnaworkbench

Submitted by ChenLiang on Fri, 09/02/2016 - 21:59

RNA interference (RNAi) has become an important tool to study and utilize gene silencing by introducing short interfering RNA (siRNA). In order to predict the most efficient siRNAs, a new software tool, RNA Workbench (RNAWB), has been designed and is freely available (after registration) on http://www.rnaworkbench.com. In addition to the standard selection rules, RNAWB includes the possibility of statistical analyses of the applied selection rules (criteria).

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PheLiM

Submitted by ChenLiang on Sun, 09/10/2017 - 20:10

RNAi is broadly used to map gene regulatory networks, but the identification of genes that are responsible for the observed phenotypes is challenging, assmall interfering RNAs (siRNAs) simultaneously downregulate the intended on targets and many partially complementary off targets. Additionally, the scarcity of publicly available control datasets hinders the development and comparative evaluation of computational methods for analyzing the data.

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ncRNAppi

Submitted by ChenLiang on Fri, 09/02/2016 - 21:59

Currently, there are a number of databases which store microRNA (miRNA) information, and tools available which provide miRNA target prediction. In this article, we describe a novel web-based tool that integrate the miRNA-targeted mRNA data, protein-protein interactions (PPI) records, tissues, biochemical pathways, human disease and gene function information to establish a disease-related miRNA target pathway database. This database is unique in the sense that it links miRNA target genes with their PPI partners according to being tissue- and diseases-specific or both.

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OligoFaktory

Submitted by ChenLiang on Fri, 09/02/2016 - 21:59

The OligoFaktory is a set of tools for the design, on an arbitrary number of target sequences, of high-quality long oligonucleotide for micro-array, of primer pair for PCR, of siRNA and more. The user-centered interface exists in two flavours: a web portal and a standalone software for Mac OS X Tiger. A unified presentation of results provides overviews with distribution charts and relative location bar graphs, as well as detailed features for each oligonucleotide.

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siRNAs with high specificity to the target

Submitted by ChenLiang on Fri, 09/02/2016 - 21:59

'Off-target' silencing effect hinders the development of siRNA-based therapeutic and research applications. Common solution to this problem is an employment of the BLAST that may miss significant alignments or an exhaustive Smith-Waterman algorithm that is very time-consuming. We have developed a Comprehensive Redundancy Minimizer (CRM) approach for mapping all unique sequences ("targets") 9-to-15 nt in size within large sets of sequences (e.g. transcriptomes). CRM outputs a list of potential siRNA candidates for every transcript of the particular species.

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