RAIN: RNA-protein Association and Interaction Networks

Overview

Journal Database (Oxford)

Specialty Biology

Date 2017 Jan 13

PMID 28077569

Citations 31

Authors

Alexander Junge

Jan C Refsgaard

Christian Garde

Xiaoyong Pan

Alberto Santos

Ferhat Alkan

Christian Anthon

Christian von Mering

Christopher T Workman

Lars Juhl Jensen

Jan Gorodkin

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Abstract

Protein association networks can be inferred from a range of resources including experimental data, literature mining and computational predictions. These types of evidence are emerging for non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs) as well. However, integration of ncRNAs into protein association networks is challenging due to data heterogeneity. Here, we present a database of ncRNA-RNA and ncRNA-protein interactions and its integration with the STRING database of protein-protein interactions. These ncRNA associations cover four organisms and have been established from curated examples, experimental data, interaction predictions and automatic literature mining. RAIN uses an integrative scoring scheme to assign a confidence score to each interaction. We demonstrate that RAIN outperforms the underlying microRNA-target predictions in inferring ncRNA interactions. RAIN can be operated through an easily accessible web interface and all interaction data can be downloaded.Database URL: http://rth.dk/resources/rain.

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