Abstract
Small RNAs are important transcriptional regulators within cells. With the advent of powerful Next Generation Sequencing platforms, sequencing small RNAs seems to be an obvious choice to understand their expression and its downstream effect. Additionally, sequencing provides an opportunity to identify novel and polymorphic miRNA. However, the biggest challenge is the appropriate data analysis pipeline, which is still in phase of active development by various academic groups. This chapter describes basic and advanced steps for small RNA sequencing analysis including quality control, small RNA alignment and quantification, differential expression analysis, novel small RNA identification, target prediction, and downstream analysis. We also provide a list of various resources for small RNA analysis.
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Mehta, J.P. (2014). Sequencing Small RNA: Introduction and Data Analysis Fundamentals. In: Alvarez, M., Nourbakhsh, M. (eds) RNA Mapping. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 1182. Humana Press, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-1062-5_9
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