title: Rice small RNA MPSS signatures
status: Public on May 26 2006
contact.city: Davis
contact.first: Blake
contact.middle: C.
contact.last: Meyers
contact.email: bcmeyers@ucdavis.edu
contact.state: CA
contact.address: 451 Health Sciences Dr.
contact.department: UC Davis Genome Center
contact.country: USA
contact.institute: University of California - Davis
organism: Oryza sativa
description: small RNA MPSS signatures represent the 5' end of endogenous small RNA (e.g. miRNA and siRNA that average 21-24 nt). These molecules are typically associated with gene silencing, not mRNA expression.
  All MPSS was performed essentially as described by Brenner et al. (Nat Biotechnol. 2000 18:630).
  The specific modifications to the method for the MPSS sequencing of small RNAs are described in the paper Lu et al. (Science 2005, 309:1567).