piRBase
piRBase is a manually curated database for PIWI-interacting RNAs (piRNAs), focused on piRNA functional analysis and annotation. It integrates high-throughput sequencing data from multiple organisms and provides comprehensive information about piRNA sequences, genomic locations, functional annotations, and epigenetic features.
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