Welcome to the miRMaid community wiki

miRMaid is data about microRNAs structured for easier access and integration, especially for computer-geeks

• The core of miRMaid is the data contained in miRBase, which is the de facto accepted standard registry for microRNA information and nomenclature.
• miRMaid takes miRbase data, reorganises it slightly and provides a programming interface to the data, which makes it much easier for the computer-savvy to perform complex data queries and analysis.
• miRMaid is extendable, meaning that additional data and functionality can easily be implemented as plugins.
• Although miRMaid also provides a basic web point-and-click-interface, the project focuses on the programmatic access to data.

A core feature of miRMaid is the many different but still intuitive and uniform access levels and representations of the data:

http://current.mirmaid.org/species/cel/matures          # HTML representation
http://current.mirmaid.org/species/cel/matures.xml      # XML representation
http://current.mirmaid.org/species/cel/matures.fa       # Fasta representation

Species.find_by_abbreviation('cel').matures             # Ruby object-relational model

Read more about the possibilites of using miRMaid in your research here.

A paper about miRMaid has been published in BMC Bioinformatics.

We are currently serving three versions of miRMaid corresponding to the following releases of miRBase.

• miRBase 18.0, http://180.mirmaid.org
• miRBase 17.0, http://170.mirmaid.org
• miRBase 16.0, http://160.mirmaid.org
• miRBase 15.0, http://150.mirmaid.org
• miRBase 14.0, http://140.mirmaid.org
• miRBase 13.0, http://130.mirmaid.org
• miRBase 12.0, http://120.mirmaid.org
• The latest miRMaid release can always be accessed through http://current.mirmaid.org.
• The latest miRMaid release setup with miRMaid plugins can always be accessed through http://plugins.mirmaid.org. Note: this version is currently using miRBase 17.0.

Following the above links you will see miRMaid's basic web browser interface. The URLs that are used to navigate the web interface can also be diretly used in a program, read more about the RESTful web service API here.