targets {rtracklayer}R Documentation

microRNA target sites

Description

A data frame of human microRNA target sites retrieved from MiRBase. This is a subset of the hsTargets data frame in the microRNA package. See the rtracklayer vignette for more details.

Usage

data(targets)

Format

A data frame with 2981 observations on the following 6 variables.

name
The miRBase ID of the microRNA.
target
The Ensembl ID of the targeted transcript.
chrom
The name of the chromosome for target site.
start
Target start position.
end
Target stop position.
strand
The strand of the target site, "+", or "-".

Source

The microRNA package, dataset hsTargets. Originally MiRBase (http://microrna.sanger.ac.uk/).

Examples

data(targets)
targetTrack <- with(targets, 
    GenomicData(IRanges(start, end), 
                strand = strand, chrom = chrom))

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