miRNAconsTarget: animal- and plantconstarget

Predict microRNA targets on user defined sets of microRNAs and 3'UTRs

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Description

Most microRNA target prediction tools are implemented as webservers on a limited number of species, or do allow only the prediction of a limited number of microRNAs and/or mRNAs. miRNAconsTargets uses three microRNA target prediction programs for animals (PITA, miRanda and TargetSpy) and 2 for plants (psRobots and TAPIR) and applies them to the user supplied sets of microRNAs and 3'UTRs. It reports both, the individual predictions and a consensus prediction. Result example.

Input

The input files (miRNAs file and utr files) must be provided uploading a file in fasta format. If the user wants to detect plant microRNA target genes, the ‘Is Plant Analysis’ checkbox must be activated. Three options can be chosen for animals and three for plants. Note that TAPIR can be used in RNAhybrid mode and fasta (alignment) mode.

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Results

  1. In this table consensus result are shown: a. miRNA: miRNA name b. mRNA: transcript Target name c. Number of Programs: Number of programs that predicted this mRNA as target d. Detect by: Names of programs that predicted this mRNA as target

  2. Link to download TargetSpy results

  3. Link to download miRanda results

  4. Link to download Consensus results