title: E-RNAi: a web application for the multi-species design of RNAi reagents--2010 update.
abstract: The design of RNA interference (RNAi) reagents is an essential step for performing loss-of-function studies in many experimental systems. The availability of sequenced and annotated genomes greatly facilitates RNAi experiments in an increasing number of organisms that were previously not genetically tractable. The E-RNAi web-service, accessible at http://www.e-rnai.org/, provides a computational resource for the optimized design and evaluation of RNAi reagents. The 2010 update of E-RNAi now covers 12 genomes, including Drosophila, Caenorhabditis elegans, human, emerging model organisms such as Schmidtea mediterranea and Acyrthosiphon pisum, as well as the medically relevant vectors Anopheles gambiae and Aedes aegypti. The web service calculates RNAi reagents based on the input of target sequences, sequence identifiers or by visual selection of target regions through a genome browser interface. It identifies optimized RNAi target-sites by ranking sequences according to their predicted specificity, efficiency and complexity. E-RNAi also facilitates the design of secondary RNAi reagents for validation experiments, evaluation of pooled siRNA reagents and batch design. Results are presented online, as a downloadable HTML report and as tab-delimited files.
authors.affiliation: German Cancer Research Center, Division Signaling and Functional Genomics, Heidelberg, Germany.
authors.forename: Thomas
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Horn
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Boutros
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D055785:Gene Knockdown Techniques; D023281:Genomics; D006801:Humans; D007202:Indicators and Reagents; D020407:Internet; D034622:RNA Interference; D012330:RNA, Double-Stranded / Q000737:chemistry; D034741:RNA, Small Interfering / Q000737:chemistry; D017423:Sequence Analysis, RNA; D012984:Software
chemical_list: D007202:Indicators and Reagents; D012330:RNA, Double-Stranded; D034741:RNA, Small Interfering
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