Maarten Lj Coonen, Daniel Hj Theunissen, Jos Cs Kleinjans, Danyel Gj Jennen
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Abstract
Background: MicroRNA expression can be quantified using sequencing techniques or commercial microRNA-expression arrays. Recently, the AgiMicroRna R-package was published that enabled systematic preprocessing and statistical analysis for Agilent microRNA arrays. Here we describe MagiCMicroRna, which is a user-friendly web interface for this package, together with a new filtering approach.
Results: We used MagiCMicroRna to normalize and filter an Agilent miRNA microarray dataset of cancerous and normal tissues from 14 different patients. With the standard filtering procedure, 250 out of 817 microRNAs remained, whereas the new group-specific filtering approach resulted in broader datasets for further analysis in most groups (>279 microRNAs remaining).
Conclusions: The user-friendly web interface of MagiCMicroRna enables researchers to normalize and filter Agilent microarrays by the click of one button. Furthermore, MagiCMicroRna provides flexibility in choosing the filtering method. The new group-specific filtering approach lead to an increased number and additional tissue-specific microRNAs remaining for subsequent analysis compared to the standard procedure. The MagiCMicroRna web interface and source code can be downloaded from https://bitbucket.org/mutgx/magicmicrorna.git.
期刊介绍:
Source Code for Biology and Medicine is a peer-reviewed open access, online journal that publishes articles on source code employed over a wide range of applications in biology and medicine. The journal"s aim is to publish source code for distribution and use in the public domain in order to advance biological and medical research. Through this dissemination, it may be possible to shorten the time required for solving certain computational problems for which there is limited source code availability or resources.