Automated family-based naming of small RNAs for next generation sequencing data using a modified MD5-digest algorithm
This provides a practical solution for laboratories handling next-generation sequencing data, though it is incremental as it builds on existing naming methods.
The researchers tackled the challenge of organizing and analyzing massive small RNA sequencing data by developing NameMyGene, a tool that generates family-based names using only input sequences, resulting in a freely available web server and software.
We developed NameMyGene, a web tool and a stand alone program to easily generate putative family-based names for small RNA sequences so that laboratories can easily organize, analyze, and observe patterns from, the massive amount of data generated by next-generation sequencers. NameMyGene, also applicable to other emerging methods such as RNA-Seq, and Chip-Seq, solely uses the input small RNA sequence and does not require any additional data such as other sequence data sets. The web server and software is freely available (http://www.johnlab.org/NameMyGene) and is based on Java to ensure platform independency.