miRTar is a web server which provides an intuitive interface to allow user
input any miRNA/siRNA sequence for identifying miRNA targets against the 3'-UTR of mRNA of mammalian genes.
The main advantage of the web server comparing to previously developed tools (see references)
is the efficient performance. Thus, the miRNA/siRNA targets search becomes faster enough to be a web server.
miRTar incorporates a preprocessing algorithm, named iScan, and a powerful miRNA targets search tool, miRanda,
to search the miRNA targets against the most conserved 3' UTR sequences from UCSC Genome Browser. |
