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The avalanche of next generation sequencing data has led to a rapid increase of annotated microRNAs in the last few years. Many of them are specific to individual species or rather narrow clades. A closer inspection of the current version of miRBase shows that dozens of entries conflict with other ncRNAs, in particular snoRNAs. With few exceptions, these cases show little similarities to canonical microRNAs, however, and thus they should be considered as mis-annotations.
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Langenberger, D., Bartschat, S., Hertel, J., Hoffmann, S., Tafer, H., Stadler, P.F. (2011). MicroRNA or Not MicroRNA?. In: Norberto de Souza, O., Telles, G.P., Palakal, M. (eds) Advances in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. BSB 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6832. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-22825-4_1
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