miRWoods: Enhanced precursor detection and stacked random forests for the sensitive detection of microRNAs.

MicroRNAs are conserved, endogenous small RNAs with critical post-transcriptional regulatory functions throughout eukaryota, including prominent roles in development and disease. Despite much effort, microRNA annotations still contain errors and are incomplete due especially to challenges related to...

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Main Authors: Jimmy Bell, Maureen Larson, Michelle Kutzler, Massimo Bionaz, Christiane V Löhr, David Hendrix
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2019-10-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007309