StarBase (biological database)

This article is about the biological database. For the office database software, see StarOffice.

StarBase^[2] is a database for decoding miRNA-mRNA, miRNA-lncRNA,^[3] miRNA-sncRNA, miRNA-circRNA,^[3] miRNA-pseudogene, protein-lncRNA,^[4] protein-ncRNA, protein-mRNA interactions, and ceRNA networks^[5] from CLIP-Seq (HITS-CLIP, PAR-CLIP, iCLIP, CLASH) and degradome sequencing data.^[1][6] StarBase provides miRFunction and ceRNAFunction web tools to predict the function of ncRNAs (miRNAs, lncRNAs, pseudogenes) and protein-coding genes from the miRNA and ceRNA^[7] regulatory networks. StarBase also developed Pan-Cancer Analysis Platform to decipher Pan-Cancer Analysis Networks of lncRNAs, miRNAs, ceRNAs, and RNA-binding proteins (RBPs) by mining clinical and expression profiles of 14 cancer types (including more than six thousand samples) from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) Data Portal.

StarBase

Content
Description	microRNA-mRNA interaction maps from Argonaute CLIP-Seq and Degradome-Seq data.
Contact
Research center	Sun Yat-sen University
Laboratory	Key Laboratory of Gene Engineering of the Ministry of Education
Authors	Jian-Hua Yang
Primary citation	Yang & al. (2011)[1]
Release date	2010
Access
Website	http://starbase.sysu.edu.cn/

See also

• MicroRNA and microRNA target database
• MicroRNA
• Degradome sequencing