title: miRmine: a database of human miRNA expression profiles.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small non-coding RNAs that are involved in post-transcriptional regulation of gene expression. In this high-throughput sequencing era, a tremendous amount of RNA-seq data is accumulating, and full utilization of publicly available miRNA data is an important challenge. These data are useful to determine expression values for each miRNA, but quantification pipelines are in a primitive stage and still evolving; there are many factors that affect expression values significantly.
  
  
  RESULTS
  We used 304 high-quality microRNA sequencing (miRNA-seq) datasets from NCBI-SRA and calculated expression profiles for different tissues and cell-lines. In each miRNA-seq dataset, we found an average of more than 500 miRNAs with higher than 5x coverage, and we explored the top five highly expressed miRNAs in each tissue and cell-line. This user-friendly miRmine database has options to retrieve expression profiles of single or multiple miRNAs for a specific tissue or cell-line, either normal or with disease information. Results can be displayed in multiple interactive, graphical and downloadable formats.
  
  
  METHODS
  http://guanlab.ccmb.med.umich.edu/mirmine.
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  bharatpa@umich.edu.
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
authors.affiliation: Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
authors.forename: Bharat
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Panwar
authors.affiliation: Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.|Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.|Department of Human Genetics and School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
authors.forename: Gilbert S
authors.initials: GS
authors.lastname: Omenn
authors.affiliation: Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.|Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.|Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
authors.forename: Yuanfang
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Guan
mesh_terms: D030541:Databases, Genetic; D005260:Female; D005786:Gene Expression Regulation; D059014:High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D035683:MicroRNAs / Q000235:genetics*; D017423:Sequence Analysis, RNA / Q000379:methods*; D059467:Transcriptome
chemical_list: D035683:MicroRNAs