Functional RNA Database News

Announcing fRNAdb 1.0 Release — by Mituyama Toutai — last modified 2006-10-31 03:59

We are please to announce immediate relese of fRNAdb 1.0 on 13, Oct. 2006.

UCSC Genome Browser for Functional RNAs Updated to 1.0.1 — by Mituyama Toutai — last modified 2006-10-31 02:21

UCSC Genome Browser for Functional RNAs is updated as of Oct. 26, 2006.

fRNAdb 1.0.1 Update — by Mituyama Toutai — last modified 2006-11-10 05:18

fRNAdb now allows you to download TAB-separated list of selected transcripts.

Scheduled Down Time — by Mituyama Toutai — last modified 2006-11-13 17:58

We are sorry but ncRNA.org will be unavailable on Nov. 18th and 25th due to scheduled black out.

fRNAdb: Nucleic Acids Res. Advanced Access is Available — by Mituyama Toutai — last modified 2006-11-18 00:37

Recently, fRNAdb is accepted by Nucleic Acids Research Database Issue. Free full article text is available from NAR on-line web site. Please be sure to check this out !

244 Newly Identified Human miRNA genes are added to the Known miRNA track — by Mituyama Toutai — last modified 2006-12-17 22:50

We added newly identified 244 human miRNAs to the "Known miRNA" track of our UCSC GenomeBrowser for Functional RNAs.

Database Update for New Year — by Mituyama Toutai — last modified 2007-01-23 01:16

A happy new year from ncRNA.org! We updated our databases for fRNAdb and UCSC Genome Browser For Functional RNA as of Jan. 9, 2007. Major changes include replacement of H-inv cDNAs with current release (rel.3). UCSC Genome Browser is now based on original v146.

Univ. Tokyo Team Sets the New Horizon for Designing siRNA — by Mituyama Toutai — last modified 2007-01-31 23:00

Katoh, T. and Suzuki, T. (U. Tokyo), recently published a novel computational algorithm to predict efficacy of an siRNA from its sequence data. Their web server siExplorer; an implementation of their algorithm is available on-line.

Finally, a practically fast multiple alignment tool for RNAs has arrived ! — by Mituyama Toutai — last modified 2007-05-23 18:19

Long-awaited practical multiple alignment tool for structural RNA sequences is released by a research group of National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) and Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, University of Tokyo. The tool is named Murlet and its web server is readily available. The source code is released under public domain.

Murlet Performance Figure 4 (large) — by Mituyama Toutai — last modified 2007-05-22 22:04

 

Murlet Performance Figure 4 (small) — by Mituyama Toutai — last modified 2007-05-22 22:05