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# miRBaseConverter
[](https://ci.appveyor.com/project/taoshengxu/miRBaseConverter)
[](http://bioconductor.org/packages/stats/bioc/miRBaseConverter.html)
[](http://bioconductor.org/packages/miRBaseConverter/)
[](http://bioconductor.org/packages/miRBaseConverter/)
[](http://bioconductor.org/checkResults/devel/bioc-LATEST/miRBaseConverter.html)
`miRBaseConverter` is an R/Bioconductor package for converting and retrieving the definition of miRNAs ( Names, Accessions, Sequences, Families and others) in different miRBase versions ( From miRBase version 6 to version 22 [ The latest version ] ). A tiny built-in database is embedded in the `miRBaseConverter` R package for retrieving miRNA information efficiently.
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## Installing miRBaseConverter
```{r,eval=FALSE,warning=FALSE,message=FALSE}
devtools::install_github("taoshengxu/miRBaseConverter")
```
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## Manual
The tutorial and examples of `miRBaseConverter` pacakge can be found [here](https://bioconductor.org/packages/devel/bioc/vignettes/miRBaseConverter/inst/doc/miRBaseConverter-vignette.html).
## Shiny application
The online application with interactive interface of this package can be accessed in
[http://nugget.unisa.edu.au:3838/miRBaseConverter](http://nugget.unisa.edu.au:3838/miRBaseConverter) or
[https://taoshengxu.shinyapps.io/miRBaseConverter/](https://taoshengxu.shinyapps.io/miRBaseConverter/).
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## Citation
Please cite the following article when using `miRBaseConverter`:
[]( https://doi.org/10.1186/s12859-018-2531-5) [](https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btx378)
Taosheng Xu, Ning Su, Lin Liu, Junpeng Zhang, Hongqiang Wang, Weijia Zhang, Jie Gui, Kui Yu, Jiuyong Li and Thuc Duy Le. miRBaseConverter: An R/Bioconductor Package for Converting and Retrieving miRNA Name, Accession, Sequence and Family Information in Different Versions of miRBase. BMC Bioinformatics 19 (Suppl 19) :514.
doi: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12859-018-2531-5
