External Links to RNA-related webpages

Other EU funded projects in the field:

• AGRIKOLA: EU FP5 project “Systematic RNAi knockouts in Arabidopsis”
• EPIGENOME: EU FP6 network of excellence, established to advance epigenetic research
• RIBOREG: EU FP6 project “Novel roles for non-coding RNA in differentiation and disease”

Databases:

• miRBASE (database of micro RNAs)
• RNA Structure Database (RNAbase.org)
• RNA Modification Database (University of Utah)
• Nucleic Acid Database (ndb)
• Protein Data Bank (pdb)

Knowledge Base:

• micro RNAs / miRNAs (3D animation from Nature)
• micro RNAs / miRNAs (presentation from Ambion)
• Post-transcriptional gene silencing PTGS by double stranded RNA (flash animation from Nature Genetics Reviews)
• RNA interference RNAi (presentation from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute)
• RNA interference RNAi: gene expression, gene silencing, RNAi amplification, glossary about RNA pol II, ribosome, dicer, siRNA, RISC, slicer, RdRp (3D animations from Nature Reviews)
• Wikipedia free encyclopedia: RNA definition, chemical structure, biological role, RNA world hypothesis, mRNA, tRNA, non-coding RNA

Software Tools:

• Biopolymer calculator (calculates length, molecular weight, melting temperature, composition and extinction coefficient of DNA, RNA and peptides)
• RNA secondary structure prediction (Moscow State University, A.N. Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology)
• MicroInspector (scanning software for detection of miRNA binding sites, IMBB/FORTH)