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Recently, we reported that, in healthy individuals and in patients, tRFs are constitutive, arise from mitochondrial as well as from nuclear tRNAs, and have composition and abundances that depend on a person\u2019s sex, population origin and race as well as on tissue, disease and disease subtype. Our findings as well as similar work by other groups highlight the importance of tRFs and presage an increase in the community\u2019s interest in elucidating the roles of tRFs in health and disease.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Results: We created MINTbase, a web-based framework that serves the dual-purpose of being a content repository for tRFs and a tool for the interactive exploration of these newly discovered molecules. A key feature of MINTbase is that it deterministically and exhaustively enumerates all possible genomic locations where a sequence fragment can be found and indicates which fragments are exclusive to tRNA space, and thus can be considered as tRFs: this is a very important consideration given that the genomes of higher organisms are riddled with partial tRNA sequences and with tRNA-lookalikes whose aberrant transcripts can be mistaken for tRFs. MINTbase is extremely flexible and integrates and presents tRF information from multiple yet interconnected vantage points (\u2018vistas\u2019). Vistas permit the user to interactively personalize the information that is returned and the manner in which it is displayed. MINTbase can report comparative information on how a tRF is distributed across all anticodon\/amino acid combinations, provides alignments between a tRNA and multiple tRFs with which the user can interact, provides details on published studies that reported a tRF as expressed, etc. Importantly, we designed MINTbase to contain all possible tRFs that could ever be produced by mature tRNAs: this allows us to report on their genomic distributions, anticodon\/amino acid properties, alignments, etc. while giving users the ability to at-will investigate candidate tRF molecules before embarking on focused experimental explorations. Lastly, we also introduce a new labeling scheme that is tRF-sequence-based and allows users to associate a tRF with a universally unique label (\u2018tRF-license plate\u2019) that is independent of a genome assembly and does not require any brokering mechanism.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Availability and Implementation: MINTbase is freely accessible at http:\/\/cm.jefferson.edu\/MINTbase\/. Dataset submissions to MINTbase can be initiated at http:\/\/cm.jefferson.edu\/MINTsubmit\/.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Contact: \u00a0isidore.rigoutsos@jefferson.edu<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Supplementary information: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1093\/bioinformatics\/btw194","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2016,4,14]],"date-time":"2016-04-14T01:25:59Z","timestamp":1460597159000},"page":"2481-2489","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":107,"title":["MINTbase: a framework for the interactive exploration of mitochondrial and nuclear tRNA fragments"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"32","author":[{"given":"Venetia","family":"Pliatsika","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Computational Medicine Center, Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University, 1020 Locust Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Phillipe","family":"Loher","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Computational Medicine Center, Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University, 1020 Locust Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Aristeidis G.","family":"Telonis","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Computational Medicine Center, Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University, 1020 Locust Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Isidore","family":"Rigoutsos","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Computational Medicine Center, Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University, 1020 Locust Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"286","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2016,4,13]]},"reference":[{"key":"2023020112535572600_btw194-B1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"12","DOI":"10.1039\/C5MB00557D","article-title":"tRNA - the golden standard in molecular biology","volume":"12","author":"Barciszewska","year":"2016","journal-title":"Mol. 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