Scalable data-driven enrichment analysis of short RNAs
Abstract
microRNAs (or miRNAs) are short RNA molecules that play a crucial role in the regulation of gene expression, i.e. the production of proteins, which are important structural and functional components of a cell. miRNAs silence genes by binding to them, thus blocking the production of the respective protein. However, the mechanisms underlying miRNA function are often very complex; combined with the fact that the number of miRNAs in a given organism ranges in the order of thousands, it becomes evident that utilizing experiments in a wet lab is a lengthy, arduous and often expensive process. Additionally, scientists may be interested to compare differences in miRNA expression between diseased and healthy individuals and need to quantify them, using statistical methods. For this reason, Bioinformatics researchers developed in-silico methods and algorithms like miRNA enrichment analysis, which is a statistical technique to predict whether a set of miRNAs is likely to affect a certain biologic ...
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