TY - JOUR AU - Rahman, Raza-Ur AU - Liebhoff, Anna-Maria AU - Bansal, Vikas AU - Fiosins, Maksims AU - Rajput, Ashish AU - Sattar, Abdul AU - Magruder, Daniel S AU - Madan, Sumit AU - Sun, Ting AU - Gautam, Abhivyakti AU - Heins, Sven AU - Liwinski, Timur AU - Bethune, Jörn AU - Trenkwalder, Claudia AU - Fluck, Juliane AU - Mollenhauer, Brit AU - Bonn, Stefan TI - SEAweb: the small RNA Expression Atlas web application. JO - Nucleic acids research VL - 48 IS - D1 SN - 0305-1048 CY - London PB - Information Retrieval Ltd.21517 M1 - DZNE-2020-00424 SP - D204-D219 PY - 2020 AB - We present the Small RNA Expression Atlas (SEAweb), a web application that allows for the interactive querying, visualization and analysis of known and novel small RNAs across 10 organisms. It contains sRNA and pathogen expression information for over 4200 published samples with standardized search terms and ontologies. In addition, SEAweb allows for the interactive visualization and re-analysis of 879 differential expression and 514 classification comparisons. SEAweb's user model enables sRNA researchers to compare and re-analyze user-specific and published datasets, highlighting common and distinct sRNA expression patterns. We provide evidence for SEAweb's fidelity by (i) generating a set of 591 tissue specific miRNAs across 29 tissues, (ii) finding known and novel bacterial and viral infections across diseases and (iii) determining a Parkinson's disease-specific blood biomarker signature using novel data. We believe that SEAweb's simple semantic search interface, the flexible interactive reports and the user model with rich analysis capabilities will enable researchers to better understand the potential function and diagnostic value of sRNAs or pathogens across tissues, diseases and organisms. KW - Animals KW - Bacterial Infections: microbiology KW - Cattle KW - Databases, Nucleic Acid KW - Humans KW - Internet KW - Mice KW - Organ Specificity KW - Parkinson Disease: blood KW - RNA, Bacterial: metabolism KW - RNA, Small Untranslated: metabolism KW - RNA, Viral: metabolism KW - Rats KW - Virus Diseases: virology KW - RNA, Bacterial (NLM Chemicals) KW - RNA, Small Untranslated (NLM Chemicals) KW - RNA, Viral (NLM Chemicals) LB - PUB:(DE-HGF)16 C6 - pmid:31598718 C2 - pmc:PMC6943056 DO - DOI:10.1093/nar/gkz869 UR - https://pub.dzne.de/record/145065 ER -