MicroRNAs as Haematopoiesis Regulators

Table 3

miRNA target prediction tools.

Database	Description	URL	Reference
miRSystem	Predict the target genes and pathways	http://mirsystem.cgm.ntu.edu.tw/	[25]
miRanda	Predict targets by finding high complementarity regions in 3’UTR	http://www.microrna.org	[26]
TargetScan	Detect target genes by perfect complementarity to the seed region	http://www.targetscan.org	[27]
PicTar	Seed match, binding energy, conservation	http://pictar.mdc-berlin.de/	[28]
DIANA-microT	Based on affinity interaction between miRNA and mRNA	http://diana.cslab.ece.ntua.gr/	[29]
Mire	Based on miRNA; mRNA duplex stability properties	http://didattica-online.polito.it/eda/miREE/	[30]
RNA22	Detect targets by pattern recognition and folding energy	http://cbcsrv.watson.ibm.com/rna22.html	[31]
Tar Base	Curated database for experimentally; tested miRNA targets	http://diana.cslab.ece.ntua.gr/tarbase/	[32]
miRNA MAP	Collection of experimentally verified miRNA targets	http://mirnamap.mbc.nctu.edu.tw/	[33]
MiRSel	Extraction of miRNA; gene interactions from the literature	http://services.bio.ifi.lmu.de/mirsel/	[34]
miRecords	Targets identified by 11 target prediction programmes	http://mirecords.biolead.org/	[35]
MiRTarBase	Targets collected manually from the literature	http://mirtarbase.mbc.nctu.edu.tw/	[36]
miRWalk	Target identification by complimentarity (perl language)	http://www.umm.uni-heidelberg.de/apps/zmf/mirwalk/	[37]
Star Base	Use CLIP-Seq and Degradome-Seq data for miRNA target identification	http://starbase.sysu.edu.cn/	[38]
VHoT	It gives information of viral miRNA relation with host	http://acl.snu.ac.kr/vhot/	[39]
OMIT	Based on ontology design, data integration	http://bioportal.bioontology.org/ontologies/OMIT	[40]
MiRPara	It uses support vector machine based software	http://159.226.126.177/mirpara/	[41]