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Published in final edited form as: Pharmacol Ther. 2011 Apr 14;131(1):18–32. doi: 10.1016/j.pharmthera.2011.04.006

Table 1.

Computational tools for miRNA target prediction and miRNA databases.

Computational Tools for miRNA Target Prediction (excluding miRNAs from plants) References
 TargetScan http://www.targetscan.org (Lewis et al. 2005)
 PicTar http://www.pictar.org (Krek et al. 2005)
 RNA22 http://cbcsrv.watson.ibm.com/rna22.html (Miranda et al. 2006)
 TarBase http://diana.cslab.ece.ntua.gr/tarbase/ (Sethupathy et al. 2006)
 PITA http://genie.weizmann.ac.il/pubs/mir07/mir07_data.html (Kertesz et al. 2007)
 microRNA http://www.microrna.org/microrna/home.do (Betel et al. 2008)
 Diana-microT http://diana.cslab.ece.ntua.gr/microT/ (Maragkakis et al. 2009)
 miRecords http://mirecords.biolead.org/ (Xiao et al. 2009)
 Starbase http://starbase.sysu.edu.cn/ (Yang et al. 2010)
miRNAs Databases (excluding miRNAs from plants) References
 miRNAMap http://mirnamap.mbc.nctu.edu.tw/ (Hsu et al. 2006)
 miRBASE http://www.mirbase.org/ (Griffiths-Jones et al. 2008)
 microRNA http://www.microrna.org/microrna/home.do (Betel et al. 2008)
 coGemiR http://cogemir.tigem.it/ (Maselli et al. 2008)
 miRGEN http://www.diana.pcbi.upenn.edu/miRGen.html (Alexiou et al. 2010)
 deepBase http://deepbase.sysu.edu.cn/ (Yang et al. 2010)