Bug#420938: ITP: mirbase -- The microRNA sequence database

[Charles Plessy <charles-debian-nospam@plessy.org>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Charles Plessy <charles-debian-nospam@plessy.org>

  Package name    : mirbase
  Version         : 9.1 
  Upstream Author : mirRBase is maintained by the Sanger center <microrna@sanger.ac.uk> 
  URL             : http://microrna.sanger.ac.uk/ 
  License         : Public Domain 
  Programming Lang: miRBase is just data. 
  Description     : The microRNA sequence database

 The miRBase Sequence Database provides a searchable repository
 for published microRNA sequences and associated annotation,
 functionality previously provided by the microRNA Registry.  miRBase
 also contains predicted miRNA target genes in miRBase Targets, and
 provides a gene naming and nomenclature function in the miRBase
 Registry.
 .
 Release 9.1 of the database contains 4449 entries representing hairpin
 precursor miRNAs, expressing 4274 mature miRNA products, in primates,
 rodents, birds, fish, worms, flies, plants and viruses.
 .
 This package will install the miRBase database for mySQL, EMBOSS, and/or
 ncbi-blast if you have the corresponding packages installed.
 .
  Homepage: http://microrna.sanger.ac.uk/
  
Although the number of known micro-ribonucleic acids is growing, I
thinkt that mirBAse will stay reasonably slim: the "micro" in the name
was not picked by chance... miRBase 9.1 is 3 Mo uncompressed and 1 Mo
gzipped.

-- 
Charles Plessy
Debian-Med packaging team.