miRetrieve:miRNA Text Mining in Abstracts
Providing tools for microRNA (miRNA) text mining. miRetrieve summarizes miRNA literature by extracting, counting,
and analyzing miRNA names, thus aiming at gaining biological
insights into a large amount of text within a short period of
time. To do so, miRetrieve uses regular expressions to extract
miRNAs and tokenization to identify meaningful miRNA
associations. In addition, miRetrieve uses the latest
miRTarBase version 8.0 (Hsi-Yuan Huang et al. (2020)
"miRTarBase 2020: updates to the experimentally validated
microRNA–target interaction database" <doi:10.1093/nar/gkz896>)
to display field-specific miRNA-mRNA interactions. The most
important functions are available as a Shiny web application
under <https://miretrieve.shinyapps.io/miRetrieve/>.
