title: mirPub: a database for searching microRNA publications.
abstract: CONCLUSIONS
  Identifying, amongst millions of publications available in MEDLINE, those that are relevant to specific microRNAs (miRNAs) of interest based on keyword search faces major obstacles. References to miRNA names in the literature often deviate from standard nomenclature for various reasons, since even the official nomenclature evolves. For instance, a single miRNA name may identify two completely different molecules or two different names may refer to the same molecule. mirPub is a database with a powerful and intuitive interface, which facilitates searching for miRNA literature, addressing the aforementioned issues. To provide effective search services, mirPub applies text mining techniques on MEDLINE, integrates data from several curated databases and exploits data from its user community following a crowdsourcing approach. Other key features include an interactive visualization service that illustrates intuitively the evolution of miRNA data, tag clouds summarizing the relevance of publications to particular diseases, cell types or tissues and access to TarBase 6.0 data to oversee genes related to miRNA publications.
  
  
  METHODS
  mirPub is freely available at http://www.microrna.gr/mirpub/.
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  vergoulis@imis.athena-innovation.gr or dalamag@imis.athena-innovation.gr
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
authors.affiliation: School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, NTUA, Zografou 15773, IMIS Institute, 'Athena' RC, Marousi 15125, DIANA-Lab, Institute of Molecular Oncology, BSRC 'Alexander Fleming', Vari 16672, Department of Computer & Communication Engineering, University of Thessaly, Volos 38221, Greece and School of Computer Science & Info Tech, RMIT University, Melbourne 3001, Australia School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, NTUA, Zografou 15773, IMIS Institute, 'Athena' RC, Marousi 15125, DIANA-Lab, Institute of Molecular Oncology, BSRC 'Alexander Fleming', Vari 16672, Department of Computer & Communication Engineering, University of Thessaly, Volos 38221, Greece and School of Computer Science & Info Tech, RMIT University, Melbourne 3001, Australia.
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authors.affiliation: School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, NTUA, Zografou 15773, IMIS Institute, 'Athena' RC, Marousi 15125, DIANA-Lab, Institute of Molecular Oncology, BSRC 'Alexander Fleming', Vari 16672, Department of Computer & Communication Engineering, University of Thessaly, Volos 38221, Greece and School of Computer Science & Info Tech, RMIT University, Melbourne 3001, Australia School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, NTUA, Zografou 15773, IMIS Institute, 'Athena' RC, Marousi 15125, DIANA-Lab, Institute of Molecular Oncology, BSRC 'Alexander Fleming', Vari 16672, Department of Computer & Communication Engineering, University of Thessaly, Volos 38221, Greece and School of Computer Science & Info Tech, RMIT University, Melbourne 3001, Australia.
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authors.affiliation: School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, NTUA, Zografou 15773, IMIS Institute, 'Athena' RC, Marousi 15125, DIANA-Lab, Institute of Molecular Oncology, BSRC 'Alexander Fleming', Vari 16672, Department of Computer & Communication Engineering, University of Thessaly, Volos 38221, Greece and School of Computer Science & Info Tech, RMIT University, Melbourne 3001, Australia.
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authors.affiliation: School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, NTUA, Zografou 15773, IMIS Institute, 'Athena' RC, Marousi 15125, DIANA-Lab, Institute of Molecular Oncology, BSRC 'Alexander Fleming', Vari 16672, Department of Computer & Communication Engineering, University of Thessaly, Volos 38221, Greece and School of Computer Science & Info Tech, RMIT University, Melbourne 3001, Australia School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, NTUA, Zografou 15773, IMIS Institute, 'Athena' RC, Marousi 15125, DIANA-Lab, Institute of Molecular Oncology, BSRC 'Alexander Fleming', Vari 16672, Department of Computer & Communication Engineering, University of Thessaly, Volos 38221, Greece and School of Computer Science & Info Tech, RMIT University, Melbourne 3001, Australia.
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authors.affiliation: School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, NTUA, Zografou 15773, IMIS Institute, 'Athena' RC, Marousi 15125, DIANA-Lab, Institute of Molecular Oncology, BSRC 'Alexander Fleming', Vari 16672, Department of Computer & Communication Engineering, University of Thessaly, Volos 38221, Greece and School of Computer Science & Info Tech, RMIT University, Melbourne 3001, Australia.
authors.forename: Timos
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authors.affiliation: School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, NTUA, Zografou 15773, IMIS Institute, 'Athena' RC, Marousi 15125, DIANA-Lab, Institute of Molecular Oncology, BSRC 'Alexander Fleming', Vari 16672, Department of Computer & Communication Engineering, University of Thessaly, Volos 38221, Greece and School of Computer Science & Info Tech, RMIT University, Melbourne 3001, Australia School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, NTUA, Zografou 15773, IMIS Institute, 'Athena' RC, Marousi 15125, DIANA-Lab, Institute of Molecular Oncology, BSRC 'Alexander Fleming', Vari 16672, Department of Computer & Communication Engineering, University of Thessaly, Volos 38221, Greece and School of Computer Science & Info Tech, RMIT University, Melbourne 3001, Australia.
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authors.affiliation: School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, NTUA, Zografou 15773, IMIS Institute, 'Athena' RC, Marousi 15125, DIANA-Lab, Institute of Molecular Oncology, BSRC 'Alexander Fleming', Vari 16672, Department of Computer & Communication Engineering, University of Thessaly, Volos 38221, Greece and School of Computer Science & Info Tech, RMIT University, Melbourne 3001, Australia.
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mesh_terms: D057225:Data Mining; D016206:Databases, Bibliographic; D016239:MEDLINE; D035683:MicroRNAs; D011642:Publications
chemical_list: D035683:MicroRNAs