title: The microRNA Registry.
abstract: The miRNA Registry provides a service for the assignment of miRNA gene names prior to publication. A comprehensive and searchable database of published miRNA sequences is accessible via a web interface (http://www.sanger.ac.uk/Software/Rfam/mirna/), and all sequence and annotation data are freely available for download. Release 2.0 of the database contains 506 miRNA entries from six organisms.
authors.affiliation: The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 9SA, UK. sgj@sanger.ac.uk
authors.forename: Sam
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Griffiths-Jones
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D019295:Computational Biology; D030561:Databases, Nucleic Acid; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D035683:MicroRNAs / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics*; D009690:Nucleic Acid Conformation; D012042:Registries
chemical_list: D035683:MicroRNAs