MiRscan: miRNA hairpins scoring tool
If you enter the sequences of two hairpins, MiRscan will assign them a score, based on their similarity to 50 pairs of experimentally verified C. elegans/C. briggsae microRNA hairpins. (MIT)
References:
Lim, L. P.*, Lau, N. C.*, Weinstein, E. G.*, Abdelhakim, A.*, Yekta, S., Rhoades, M. W., Burge, C. B. and Bartel, D. P. (2003). The microRNAs of Caenorhabditis elegans. Genes & Dev. 17, 991.
Lim, L. P.*, Glasner, M. E.*, Yekta, S.*, Burge, C. B. and Bartel, D. P. (2003). Vertebrate microRNA genes. Science 299, 1540.
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