On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 8:08 AM, <mauede@alice.it> wrote:

> I posted the following question to R mailing-list and was adviced to
> contact the BioConductors team.
>
> I have to find humans miRNA sequences and the correspondent validated
> and/or predicted gene sequences.
> The only database I know of is  http://mirecords.umn.edu/miRecords where
> all such information is accessed through a set of structured web site
>  pages.
> I wonder whether R or C++  provides an interface to automatically extract
> such data from miRecords or any other similar database.
>

Looks like there is a download link on the home base of miRecords that gives
you an excel spreadsheet.


>
> I would greatly appreciate any suggestion even about other databases from
> where it is possible to get the same sort of data and s/w packages that
> facilitate database access.
>

mirBase (http://microrna.sanger.ac.uk/) is perhaps the largest?  Again,
mirBase offers downloads of tab-delimited text files.


>
> Sorry for my naive question. I am a physics postdoc...  just jumped in the
> middle of a BioInformatic project.
>
> Thank you very much in advance,
> Maura Edelweiss
>
>
>
> tutti i telefonini TIM!
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