Glossary¶
- miRNA¶
Class of small non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs), have an average length of 21–23 nucleotides. They are endogenous regulatory molecules that modulate gene expression post-transcriptionally by inducing target mRNA silencing and decay. Additional roles beyond negative modulation of mRNA function have also been proposed.
- isomiR¶
miRNAs can frequently appear in the form of multiple sequence variants or isoforms (termed isomiRs).
- Reads¶
An inferred sequence of base pairs (or base pair probabilities) corresponding to all or part of a single DNA fragment.
- mirBase¶
A searchable database of published miRNA sequences and annotation.
- mirTop¶
Command line tool to annotate with a standard naming miRNAs e isomiRs.
- Pypi¶
Python package index (Pypi, https://pypi.org/) is a repository of software for the Python programming language.
- reStructuredText (ReST)¶
reStructuredText format (http://docutils.sourceforge.net/rst.html). An easy-to-read, what-you-see-is-what-you-get plaintext markup syntax and parser system.
- Sphinx¶
Python module for documentation. See details in http://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/master/