[BioC] any good R package to scan microRNA target?

Steve Lianoglou mailinglist.honeypot at gmail.com
Fri Mar 16 20:18:41 CET 2012


On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 3:15 PM, wang peter <wng.peter at gmail.com> wrote:
> no,
> it is not so simple
> there are many algorithms to scan microRNA on 3'UTR
> NOT match,
> SOME people call it miRNA target prediction
> like picTar or miRanda

It's true -- and SOME people don't really put too much faith in such
predictions, is what I'm saying (that's where my "some (¿any?) of
story" comment came from ;-)

But anyway -- so you're looking for an R wrapper to picTar, or
miRanda, or targetscan, or mirSVR, or?

-- 
Steve Lianoglou
Graduate Student: Computational Systems Biology
 | Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
 | Weill Medical College of Cornell University
Contact Info: http://cbio.mskcc.org/~lianos/contact



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