Tag Archives: miRNA

Why miRNA are 22 or 23 nucleotides long

Late last year I mapped random sized DNA sequences back to the genome. The purpose was simply to see how long sequenced reads needed to be before they could be uniquely mapped to the genome. I couldn’t find the statistics … Continue reading

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Can we use blat to map miRNA’s?

From miRBase downloaded the mature miRNA’s. In the file, there are currently 1,223 miRNA’s for the human genome. Using default blat settings, 152 (133 map to only one loci) of the mature human miRNA’s can be mapped to the assembled … Continue reading

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