MirCure
MirCure is a software for quality control, filtering, and curation of microRNA candidates. It evaluates miRNA-specific features based on gene expression, biogenesis, and conservation data to generate scores used to assess the reliability of miRNA annotations. The tool includes a graphical interface for manual curators to browse supporting evidence.
Basic Information
| Repository | https://github.com/ConesaLab/MirCure |
| Documentation | https://github.com/ConesaLab/MirCure |
| Main publication (DOI) | 10.1093/bioinformatics/btaa889 view |
| Contact email | ana.conesa@csic.es |
| Authors/Maintainers | Ana Conesa |
| Type of application | Desktop application |
| Programming languages | R |
| Keywords | Omics, Resources, Transcriptomics, RNA Sequencing (RNA-seq), Data Analysis, Bioinformatics Software and Tools, Annotation tools, Desktop application |
Technical details
| Input file formats | bam, gff, fasta |
| Output file formats | gff, fasta, pdf |
| Software compatibility | Linux, Mac, Windows |
| Hardware requirements | No specific hardware requirements |
| Type of containerization | Docker |
| Wrapper type | None |
| Compatible tools | mirDeep2: MirCure is compatible with mirDeep2 output for further validation and curation of miRNA candidates which shows its interoperability with existing miRNA discovery tools |
| Funding resource | EU funding |
| Funding support | No funding |
Statistics
| Unique users (last 12 months) | <100 |
| Unique users (since first release) | <100 |
| Software downloads (last 12 months) | <100 |
| Software downloads (since first release) | <100 |
| Jobs submitted (last 12 months) | <100 |
| Jobs submitted (since first release) | <100 |
| Repository clones (last 12 months) | <100 |
| Repository clones (since first release) | <100 |
| Citations (last 12 months) | <100 (~0 as of 15/10/2026) |
| Citations (since first release) | <100 (6 as of 15/10/2026) |
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