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Parallel DNA pyrosequencing unveils new zebrafish microRNAs

Ana R Soares1,2 email, Patrícia M Pereira1 email, Bruno Santos3 email, Conceição Egas2,3 email, Ana C Gomes3 email, Joel Arrais4 email, José L Oliveira4 email, Gabriela R Moura1 email and Manuel AS Santos1 email

RNA Biology Laboratory, Department of Biology & CESAM, University of Aveiro, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal

Centre for Neuroscience and Cell Biology, University of Coimbra, 3004-517 Coimbra, Portugal

Biocant Research Centre, 3060-197 Cantanhede, Portugal

IEETA, University of Aveiro, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal

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BMC Genomics 2009, 10:195doi:10.1186/1471-2164-10-195

Published: 27 April 2009

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Additional file 1:

Data pipeline analysis. Scheme representing the data pipeline used to analyze pyrosequencing data. (A) includes miRDeep analysis and (B) further processing of miRDeep discarded reads.

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Additional file 2:

List of known miRNAs and miRNA*. List of known miRNAs and miRNA* identified in this study and its distribution in the small RNA libraries.

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Number of miRNA reads and unique miRNAs throughout development (A) and mature tissues (B). Correlation between the numbers of miRNA reads for each tagged sample and the number of unique miRNAs of each sample.

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Putative novel miRNAs. List of the novel miRNAs identified, together with information about genomic location, conservation, expression, number of reads and presence or absence of a star sequence.

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Targets for novel miRNAs. List of the genes that are targets of the novel miRNAs and their classification by GO terms.

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