Collecting SARS-CoV-2 Encoded miRNAs via Text Mining

Alexandra Schubö, Armin Hadziahmetovic*, Markus Joppich, Ralf Zimmer

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Established text mining approaches can be used to identify miRNAs mentioned in published papers and preprints. Here, we apply such a targeted approach to the LitCovid literature collection in order to find viral miRNAs published in connection to SARS-CoV-2. As LitCovid aims at being a comprehensive collection of literature on new findings on SARS-CoV-2 and the COVID-19 pandemic, it is perfectly suited for our goal of finding all reported SARS-CoV-2 miRNAs. The identified miRNAs provide an up-to-date and quite comprehensive collection of potential viral miRNAs, which is a useful resource for further research to fight the current pandemic. We identified 564 putative SARS-CoV-2 miRNAs together with the respective evidences, i.e. the original publications, and collect them for critical review. The text mining method and the corresponding synonym list are optimized for finding viral miRNAs and the results are manually curated. Since not all miRNAs were experimentally verified, the collection might contain false positives, but it is highly sensitive. Moreover, the text mining approach and resulting collection of miRNA candidates can be useful resources for further SARS-CoV-2 research and for experimental validation.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationBioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering - 9th International Work-Conference, IWBBIO 2022, Proceedings
EditorsIgnacio Rojas, Olga Valenzuela, Fernando Rojas, Luis Javier Herrera, Francisco Ortuño
PublisherSpringer
Pages429-441
Number of pages13
ISBN (Print)9783031077036
DOIs
StatePublished - 2022
Externally publishedYes
Event9th International Work-Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering, IWBBIO 2022 - Gran Canaria, Spain
Duration: 27 Jun 202230 Jun 2022

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume13346 LNBI
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference9th International Work-Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering, IWBBIO 2022
Country/TerritorySpain
CityGran Canaria
Period27/06/2230/06/22

Keywords

  • COVID-19
  • Literature search
  • miRNAs
  • SARS-CoV-2
  • svRNAs
  • Text-mining
  • Viral miRNAs

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