piRNABank is a web analysis system and resource, which provides comprehensive information on piRNAs in the widely studied mammals namely Human, Mouse, Rat, Zebrafish, Platypus and a fruit fly, Drosophila. It compiles all the possible clusters of piRNAs and also depicts piRNAs along with the associated genomic elements like genes and repeats on a genome wide map. Search options have been designed to query and obtain useful data from this online resource. It also facilitates abstraction of sequences and structural features from piRNA data.
piRNABank provides the following features:

piRNABank Version 2

New Additions: Homo Sapien(NCBI 37), Mus musculus(NCBIM37), Drosophila melanogaster, Danio rerio(Zebrafish) and Ornithorhynchus anatinus(Platypus). Now, Researchers can also deposit piRNA Sequences in piRNABank. For more info, Please Contact

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Functional involvement of Tudor and dPRMT5 in the piRNA processing pathway in Drosophila germlines.

References

Please cite the following article if you utilise any data from this web resource:
"piRNABank: a web resource on classified and clustered Piwi-interacting RNAs"
Sai Lakshmi S, Shipra Agrawal
Nucleic Acids Research 2008 January; 36 (Database issue): D173–D177. [PMCID: PMC2238943] (Citations)

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