MiRTarBase

miRTarBase ^[1] is a curated database of MicroRNA-Target Interactions. As a database, miRTarBase has accumulated more than fifty thousand miRNA-target interactions (MTIs), which are collected by manually surveying pertinent literature after data mining of the text systematically to filter research articles related to functional studies of miRNAs. Generally, the collected MTIs are validated experimentally by reporter assay, western blot, microarray and next-generation sequencing experiments. While containing the largest amount of validated MTIs, the miRTarBase provides the most updated collection by comparing with other similar, previously developed databases.

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miRTarBase

Content
Description	Experimentally validated microRNA-target interactions (MTIs).
Data types captured	miRNA-target interactions
Contact
Research center	National Chiao Tung University
Laboratory	Institute of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
Authors	Sheng-Da Hsu
Primary citation	Hsu & al. (2011)[1]
Release date	2013
Access
Website	http://mirtarbase.cuhk.edu.cn
Download URL	http://mirtarbase.cuhk.edu.cn/php/download.php
Miscellaneous
Version	4.5

See also

• MicroRNAs