Deciphering the link between Diabetes mellitus and SARS-CoV-2 infection through differential targeting of microRNAs in the human pancreas

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    For the study, three mock-infected and three SARS-CoV-2-infected hESC pancreatic tissue samples were chosen from the Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) dataset accession, GSE151803 [19].
    Gene Expression Omnibus
    suggested: (Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO, RRID:SCR_005012)
    The Differentially Expressed Genes (DEGs) between the mock-infected and the SARS-CoV-2-infected pancreatic tissue were obtained using the DESeq2 R package (padj < 0.05 and |log2FC| > 1) [20, 21].
    DESeq2
    suggested: (DESeq, RRID:SCR_000154)
    Disease enrichment analysis: DEGs-based disease enrichment analysis was done through DAVID – Functional Annotation Tool considering the Gene-Disease Associations Dataset (GAD) [22, 23].
    DAVID
    suggested: (DAVID, RRID:SCR_001881)
    Differentially targeting miRNAs: The complete genome reference sequence of SARS-CoV-2, Wuhan-Hu-1, was retrieved from NCBI RefSeq ID, NC_045512.2 [28].
    RefSeq
    suggested: (RefSeq, RRID:SCR_003496)
    The human miRNAs targeting the 3’ and 5’ UTR of the SARS-CoV-2 genome (CoV-tar-miRNAs) were obtained using the miRDB online tool [29, 30].
    miRDB
    suggested: (miRDB, RRID:SCR_010848)
    The target genes of CoV-tar-miRNAs were obtained using the Predicted Target Module of miRWalk 2.0 [31, 32].
    miRWalk
    suggested: (miRWalk, RRID:SCR_016509)

    Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).


    Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.

    Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.


    Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.


    Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.


    Results from rtransparent:
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    • No protocol registration statement was detected.

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