title: circRNADb: A comprehensive database for human circular RNAs with protein-coding annotations.
abstract: It has been known that circular RNAs are widely expressed in human tissues and cells, and play important regulatory roles in physiological or pathological processes. However, there is lack of comprehensively annotated human circular RNAs database. In this study we established a circRNA database, named as circRNADb, containing 32,914 human exonic circRNAs carefully selected from diversified sources. The detailed information of the circRNA, including genomic information, exon splicing, genome sequence, internal ribosome entry site (IRES), open reading frame (ORF) and references were provided in circRNADb. In addition, circRNAs were found to be able to encode proteins, which have not been reported in any species. 16328 circRNAs were annotated to have ORF longer than 100 amino acids, of which 7170 have IRES elements. 46 circRNAs from 37 genes were found to have their corresponding proteins expressed according mass spectrometry. The database provides the function of data search, browse, download, submit and feedback for the user to study particular circular RNA of interest and update the database continually. circRNADb will be built to be a biological information platform for circRNA molecules and related biological functions in the future. The database can be freely available through the web server at http://reprod.njmu.edu.cn/circrnadb.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biomedical Engineering, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing 211106, China.
authors.forename: Xiaoping
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.affiliation: Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, The First Affiliated Hospital with Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing 210029, China.
authors.forename: Ping
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Han
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Reproductive Medicine, Department of Histology and Embryology, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing 210029, China.
authors.forename: Tao
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Zhou
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Reproductive Medicine, Department of Histology and Embryology, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing 210029, China.
authors.forename: Xuejiang
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Guo
authors.affiliation: Department of Biomedical Engineering, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing 211106, China.
authors.forename: Xiaofeng
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Song
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Reproductive Medicine, Department of Histology and Embryology, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing 210029, China.|Center of Pathology and Clinical Laboratory, Sir Run Run Hospital Affiliated with Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing 211166, China.
authors.forename: Yan
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Li
mesh_terms: D030541:Databases, Genetic; D006801:Humans; D058977:Molecular Sequence Annotation; D016366:Open Reading Frames; D011506:Proteins / Q000235:genetics; D012313:RNA / Q000235:genetics*; D000079962:RNA, Circular
chemical_list: D011506:Proteins; D000079962:RNA, Circular; D012313:RNA