Exercises for you to try:
There is a different database for microRNA that we’ve analysed this dataset against, called MirGeneDB. MirGeneDB is a database of manually curated microRNA genes that have been validated and annotated as initially described in Fromm et al. 2015 and Fromm et al. 2020. MirGeneDB 2.1 includes more than 16,000 microRNA gene entries representing more than 1,500 miRNA families from 75 metazoan species and published in the 2022 NAR database issue.
The output of the MirGeneDB analysis can be found at /work/training/2024/smallRNAseq/runs/run3_MirGeneDB, if you want to practice editing the R scripts we’ve given you to get the same plots as above for this analysis (in preparation for you doing it for your own data).