SpliceAid: a database of experimental RNA target motifs bound by splicing proteins in humans

Bioinformatics. 2009 May 1;25(9):1211-3. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btp124. Epub 2009 Mar 4.

Abstract

The correct post-transcriptional RNA processing is finely regulated by RNA-binding proteins. Unfortunately, there is little experimental information on target RNA sequences of RNA-binding proteins and moreover such experimentally derived target sequences are annotated in a compact form by the score matrices that overestimate the number of possible recognized sequences. We carried out an exhaustive hand curated literature search to create a database, SpliceAid, collecting all the experimentally assessed target RNA sequences that are bound by splicing proteins in humans. We built a web resource, database driven, to easy query SpliceAid and give back the results by an accurate and dynamic graphic representation.

Availability: SpliceAid database is freely accessible at http://www.introni.it/splicing.html.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Binding Sites
  • Databases, Nucleic Acid*
  • Humans
  • Internet
  • RNA / chemistry*
  • RNA Splicing*
  • RNA-Binding Proteins / chemistry*

Substances

  • RNA-Binding Proteins
  • RNA