Precursor identification of mature miRNA
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Prasad ★ 1.6k

Hi,

I have set of mature miRNA sequences (18-36 bp range) [genome sequence is not available]. For these mature mirna sequences I want to find exact precursor sequences. I aligned mature sequence to genome and took upstream and downstream 50 bp including mature mirna and did the rna folding but I am getting structure for full. my questions are

  1. How do I predict exact precursor sequence
  2. To identify miRNA* for existing mature rna. Should I just reverse complement the mature mirna?

Any suggestions are appreciated. Thanks

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Prasad, Which species are you looking at? Do you have some microRNA-seq data already?

  1. There are lots of different software for hairpin microRNA precursor prediction but they work better with some microRNA-seq data as well; consider miR-Deep2 and miReap as two options.
  2. The star strand is mostly complementary to the mature microRNA by may have a few nt overhang.
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Thanks for the reply. i am working on plant species with no genome. I want to predict precursor sequence for each of mirna. i will try with mir-Deep2

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Do you have small RNA seq data to help you identify the miR genes? Because miR-Deep2 is limited to a few animal species only, miR-Deep-P might be more appropriate.

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