mirTarBase {mirIntegrator} | R Documentation

## MicroRNA-target interactions in human.

### Description

Dataset of miRNA-target interactions in human obtained from mirTarBase release 4.5: Nov. 1, 2013.

### Usage

    data(mirTarBase)

### Format

A data.frame with 39083 interactions and 9 variables. The columns needed for this package are:

- `miRNA`: which contains the miRNA ID,

- `Target.ID`: contains the entrez ID of the gene targeted by the `miRNA`

### Details

This dataset is licensed by its authors (Hsu et al.), see http://mirtarbase.mbc.nctu.edu.tw/cache/download/LICENSE.

### Value

A data.frame with human miRNA-targets interactions

### Source

Downloaded from http://mirtarbase.mbc.nctu.edu.tw/ on 4/1/2015. A script which downloads the file and constructs the mirTarBase object may be found in 'inst/scripts/get_mirTarBase.R', see the example.

### References

S.-D. Hsu, Y.-T. Tseng, S. Shrestha, Y.-L. Lin, A. Khaleel, C.-H. Chou, C.-F. Chu, H.-Y. Huang, C.-M. Lin, S.-Y. Ho, T.-Y. Jian, F.-M. Lin, T.-H. Chang, S.-L. Weng, K.-W. Liao, I.-E. Liao, C.-C. Liu, and H.-D. Huang, miRTarBase update 2014: an information resource for experimentally validated miRNA-target interactions, Nucleic Acids Research, vol. 42, pp. D78 - D85, Jan. 2014.

### Examples

    data(mirTarBase)
    head(mirTarBase)

    script <- system.file("scripts", "get_mirTarBase.R",
                          package = "mirIntegrator")
    script
    readLines(script)

[Package mirIntegrator version 1.12.0 Index]