mirSVR scoring for predicted microRNA target sites

A new regression method for predicting likelihood of target mRNA down-regulation from sequence and structure features in microRNA/mRNA predicted target sites.

MirSVR is a new machine learning method for ranking microRNA target sites by a down-regulation score. The algorithm trains a regression model on sequence and contextual features extracted from miRanda-predicted target sites. In a large-scale evaluation, miRanda-mirSVR is competitive with other target prediction methods in identifying target genes and predicting the extent of their downregulation at the mRNA or protein levels. Importantly, the method identifies a significant number of experimentally determined non-canonical and non-conserved sites.

mirSVR scores are available at www.microRNA.org.

Betel D, Koppal A, Agius P, Sander C, Leslie C. (2010) Comprehensive modeling of microRNA targets predicts functional non-conserved and non-canonical sites. Genome Biology  11, R90. [article]

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    October 25, 2011
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    October 26, 2011
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