MiRWalk: An online resource for prediction of microRNA binding sites.
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SUBMITTER: Sticht C
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6193719 | biostudies-literature | 2018
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
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miRWalk: An online resource for prediction of microRNA binding sites.
Sticht Carsten C De La Torre Carolina C Parveen Alisha A Gretz Norbert N
PloS one 20181018 10
miRWalk is an open-source platform providing an intuitive interface that generates predicted and validated miRNA-binding sites of known genes of human, mouse, rat, dog and cow. The core of miRWalk is the miRNA target site prediction with the random-forest-based approach software TarPmiR searching the complete transcript sequence including the 5'-UTR, CDS and 3'-UTR. Moreover, it integrates results other databases with predicted and validated miRNA-target interactions. The focus is set on a modul ...[more]
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