Trends in Genetics has just released miRNA Nomenclature:AView Incorporating GeneticOrigins, Biosynthetic Pathways,and Sequence Variants, a collaborative opinion paper with T. Desvignes, P. Batzel, E. Berezikov, K. Eilbeck, J.T. Eppig, M.S. McAndrews, A. Singer, and J.H. Postlethwait. This paper describes the need and some solutions for standardizing miRNA nomenclature. The terminology described is represented in the Sequence Ontology.
Two papers describing non-coding RNA will be presented at the upcoming IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM) conference in Washington DC in November:
- A semantic approach for knowledge capture of microRNA-target gene interactions. Jingshan Huang, Fernando Gutierrez, Dejing Dou, Judith Blake, Karen Eilbeck, Darren Natale, Barry Smith, Yu Lin, Xiaowei Wang, Zixing Liu, Ming Tan, and Alan Ruttenberg.
- A domain ontology for the non-coding RNA field. Jingshan Huang, Karen Eilbeck, Judith Blake, Dejing Dou, Darren Natale, Alan Ruttenberg, Barry Smith, Michael Zimmermann, Guoqian Jiang, Yu Lin, Bin Wu, Yongqun He, Shaojie Zhang, Xiaowei Wang, He Zhang, Zixing Liu, and Ming Tan.