Table 2.

Computational tools for miRNA target prediction

Name	Website	Reference
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 (2011)