Table 8.

miRNA target prediction tools and databases.

Name	Site	Description	Authors
TargetScan	http://www.targetscan.org/	miRNA target prediction algorithm	Lewis et al. (2003)
DIANA-microT	http://diana.cslab.ece.ntua.gr/microT/	miRNA target prediction algorithm	Maragkakis et al. (2009)
RNA Hybrid	http://bibiserv.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de/rnahybrid/	Tool for finding the minimum free energy hybridization of a long and a short RNA	Rehmsmeier et al. (2004)
miRDB	http://mirdb.org/miRDB/	Database for miRNA target prediction by MirTarget2 and functional annotation	Wang and El Naqa (2008)
microRNA.org	http://www.microrna.org/microrna/home.do	Database of miRNA target prediction by the miRanda algorithm	Betel et al. (2008)
TarBase	http://diana.cslab.ece.ntua.gr/tarbase/	Manually curated database of experimentally supported microRNA targets	Papadopoulos et al. (2009)
miR2Disease	http://www.mir2disease.org/	Manually curated database of miRNA deregulation in various human diseases	Jiang et al. (2009)
miRecords	http://mirecords.biolead.org/index.php	Database of experimentally validated miRNA targets and integration of predicted miRNA targets produced by 11 miRNA target prediction programs	Xiao et al. (2009)