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However, due to their short size, miRNAs have often been incorrectly annotated in both plants and animals. Consequently, published miRNA annotations and miRNA databases are enriched for false miRNAs, jeopardizing their utility as molecular information resources. To address this problem, we developed MirCure, a new software for quality control, filtering and curation of miRNA candidates. MirCure is an easy-to-use tool with a graphical interface that allows both scoring of miRNA reliability and browsing of supporting evidence by manual curators.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>Given a list of miRNA candidates, MirCure evaluates a number of miRNA-specific features based on gene expression, biogenesis and conservation data, and generates a score that can be used to discard poorly supported miRNA annotations. MirCure can also curate and adjust the annotation of the 5p and 3p arms based on user-provided small RNA-seq data. We evaluated MirCure on a set of manually curated animal and plant miRNAs and demonstrated great accuracy. Moreover, we show that MirCure can be used to revisit previous bona fide miRNAs annotations to improve miRNA databases.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Availability and implementation<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>The MirCure software and all the additional scripts used in this project are publicly available at https:\/\/github.com\/ConesaLab\/MirCure. A Docker image of MirCure is available at https:\/\/hub.docker.com\/r\/conesalab\/mircure.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Supplementary information<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1093\/bioinformatics\/btaa889","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,10,1]],"date-time":"2020-10-01T19:15:15Z","timestamp":1601579715000},"page":"i618-i624","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":4,"title":["MirCure: a tool for quality control, filter and curation of microRNAs of animals and plants"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"36","author":[{"given":"Guillem","family":"Ylla","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Microbiology and Cell Science, University of Florida , Gainesville, FL 32611, USA"},{"name":"Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University , Cambridge, MA 02138, USA"}]},{"given":"Tianyuan","family":"Liu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Microbiology and Cell Science, University of Florida , Gainesville, FL 32611, USA"}]},{"given":"Ana","family":"Conesa","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Microbiology and Cell Science, University of Florida , Gainesville, FL 32611, USA"}]}],"member":"286","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2020,12,29]]},"reference":[{"key":"2023062409330443400_btaa889-B1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"209","DOI":"10.3389\/fgene.2012.00209","article-title":"Computational methods for ab initio detection of microRNAs","volume":"3","author":"Allmer","year":"2012","journal-title":"Front. 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