RNAct: Protein–RNA interaction predictions for model organisms with supporting experimental data

B Lang, A Armaos, GG Tartaglia - Nucleic acids research, 2019 - academic.oup.com
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Protein–RNA interactions are implicated in a number of physiological roles as well as
diseases, with molecular mechanisms ranging from defects in RNA splicing, localization and
translation to the formation of aggregates. Currently,∼ 1400 human proteins have
experimental evidence of RNA-binding activity. However, only∼ 250 of these proteins
currently have experimental data on their target RNAs from various sequencing-based
methods such as eCLIP. To bridge this gap, we used an established, computationally …
Abstract
Protein–RNA interactions are implicated in a number of physiological roles as well as diseases, with molecular mechanisms ranging from defects in RNA splicing, localization and translation to the formation of aggregates. Currently, ∼1400 human proteins have experimental evidence of RNA-binding activity. However, only ∼250 of these proteins currently have experimental data on their target RNAs from various sequencing-based methods such as eCLIP. To bridge this gap, we used an established, computationally expensive protein–RNA interaction prediction method, catRAPID, to populate a large database, RNAct. RNAct allows easy lookup of known and predicted interactions and enables global views of the human, mouse and yeast protein–RNA interactomes, expanding them in a genome-wide manner far beyond experimental data (http://rnact.crg.eu).
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