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ArticleBioinformatics (Oxford, England)2016

TarPmiR: a new approach for microRNA target site prediction.

Jun Ding, Xiaoman Li, Haiyan Hu

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Article in Bioinformatics (Oxford, England), 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 98 papers.

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3 authors.

Jun DingDepartment of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
Xiaoman LiBurnett School of Biomedical Science, College of Medicine, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL 32816, USA.
Haiyan HuDepartment of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

Funding

Sterol Regulatory Element Binding Proteins in Regulation of Lipid MetabolismR01HL048044 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA-IRVINE · PI OSBORNE, TIMOTHY F · 1993 to 2017
$7.3M
NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL048044
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

motivationThe identification of microRNA (miRNA) target sites is fundamentally important for studying gene regulation. There are dozens of computational methods available for miRNA target site prediction. Despite their existence, we still cannot reliably identify miRNA target sites, partially due to our limited understanding of the characteristics of miRNA target sites. The recently published CLASH (crosslinking ligation and sequencing of hybrids) data provide an unprecedented opportunity to study the characteristics of miRNA target sites and improve miRNA target site prediction methods.

resultsApplying four different machine learning approaches to the CLASH data, we identified seven new features of miRNA target sites. Combining these new features with those commonly used by existing miRNA target prediction algorithms, we developed an approach called TarPmiR for miRNA target site prediction. Testing on two human and one mouse non-CLASH datasets, we showed that TarPmiR predicted more than 74.2% of true miRNA target sites in each dataset. Compared with three existing approaches, we demonstrated that TarPmiR is superior to these existing approaches in terms of better recall and better precision. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION: The TarPmiR software is freely available at http://hulab.ucf.edu/research/projects/miRNA/TarPmiR/ CONTACTS: haihu@cs.ucf.edu or xiaoman@mail.ucf.edu SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.

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Gene Expression RegulationMicroRNAsSoftwareAlgorithmsAnimalsBinding SitesComputational BiologyHigh-Throughput Screening AssaysHumansMiceMicroRNAs

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PMCPMC5018371

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