AUTHOR=Sanan-Mishra Neeti , Tripathi Anita , Goswami Kavita , Shukla Rohit N. , Vasudevan Madavan , Goswami Hitesh 

TITLE=ARMOUR – A Rice miRNA: mRNA Interaction Resource

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Plant Science

VOLUME=9

YEAR=2018

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/plant-science/articles/10.3389/fpls.2018.00602

DOI=10.3389/fpls.2018.00602

ISSN=1664-462X

ABSTRACT=<p>ARMOUR was developed as <underline>A</underline><underline>R</underline>ice <underline>m</underline>iRNA:mRNA interaction res<underline>our</underline>ce. This informative and interactive database includes the experimentally validated expression profiles of miRNAs under different developmental and abiotic stress conditions across seven Indian rice cultivars. This comprehensive database covers 689 known and 1664 predicted novel miRNAs and their expression profiles in more than 38 different tissues or conditions along with their predicted/known target transcripts. The understanding of miRNA:mRNA interactome in regulation of functional cellular machinery is supported by the sequence information of the mature and hairpin structures. ARMOUR provides flexibility to users in querying the database using multiple ways like known gene identifiers, gene ontology identifiers, KEGG identifiers and also allows on the fly fold change analysis and sequence search query with inbuilt BLAST algorithm. ARMOUR database provides a cohesive platform for novel and mature miRNAs and their expression in different experimental conditions and allows searching for their interacting mRNA targets, GO annotation and their involvement in various biological pathways. The ARMOUR database includes a provision for adding more experimental data from users, with an aim to develop it as a platform for sharing and comparing experimental data contributed by research groups working on rice.</p>