Related data sources

• NONCODE :A database of all kinds of noncoding RNAs (except tRNAs and rRNAs).
  
• lncRNAdb : A database providing comprehensive annotations of eukaryotic long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs).
  
• LncRNADisease :A database for long-non-coding RNA-associated diseases.
  
• starBaseV2.0 :A database for decoding Pan-Cancer and Interaction Networks of lncRNAs, miRNAs, competing endogenous RNAs(ceRNAs), RNA-binding proteins (RBPs) and mRNAs from large-scale CLIP-Seq (HITS-CLIP, PAR-CLIP, iCLIP, CLASH) data.
  
• DIANA-lncBase :A database hosts elaborated information for, both predicted and experimentally verified, miRNA-lncRNA interactions.
  

Experimental validated miRNA target databases

• TarBase:A comprehensive database of experimentally supported animal microRNA targets.
  
• miR2Disease : A manually curated database, aims at providing a comprehensive resource of miRNA deregulation in various human diseases.
  
• miRecords :An integrated resource for microRNA–target interactions.
  
• miRTarBase :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.
  

Predicted miRNA target databases

• TargetScan:Predicting biological targets of miRNAs by searching for the presence of conserved 8mer and 7mer sites that match the seed region of each miRNA.
  
• PicTar:PicTar is an algorithm for the identification of microRNA targets. This searchable website provides details (3' UTR alignments with predicted sites, links to various public databases ).
  
• miRanda :Predicted microRNA targets & target downregulation scores. Experimentally observed expression patterns.
  
• PITA :PITA starts by scanning the UTR for potential microRNA targets (using the supplied seed matching tools) and then scores each site.
  
• DIANA-microT :An algorithm based on several parameters calculated individually for each microRNA and it combines conserved and non-conserved microRNA recognition elements into a final prediction score.
  
• RNAhybrid :RNAhybrid is a tool for finding the minimum free energy hybridisation of a long and a short RNA.