ISSN: 0973-7510

E-ISSN: 2581-690X

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Shibsankar Das1 , Debabrata Mandal2 and Uttam Roy Mandal3

1Department of Mathematics, Uluberia College, Uluberia, Howrah, W.B., India.
2Department of Computer Science, Tamralipta Mahavidyalaya, Tamluk, West Bengal –  721636, India.
3Department of Mathematics, Raidighi College, Raidighi, South 24 Parganas, W.B., India.
J Pure Appl Microbiol. 2018;12(1):361-368
https://doi.org/10.22207/JPAM.12.1.42 | © The Author(s). 2018
Received:10/01/2018 | Accepted: 17/02/2018 | Published: 31/03/2018
Abstract

MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small non-encoding RNAs of 19-24 nucleotides long. It regulates gene expression through target mRNA degradation or translational gene silencing. Experimental based prediction is laborious and economically unfavorable due to a huge number of miRNAs and potential targets. So researchers are focused on computational approach for faster prediction. A large number of computational based prediction tools have been developed, but their results are often inconsistent. Hence, finding a reliable computational based prediction tool is still a challenging task. Here we proposed a computational method, microTarget for finding miRNA – mRNA target interactions. We validated our result in C. elegans and Rattus norvegicus genomes and compared performance with three computational methods, like miRanda, PITA, and RNAhybrid. Signal-to-noise ratio, z score, Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve analysis, Matthews correlation coefficient (MCC) and F measure show that microTarget exhibits good performance than other three miRNA – mRNA target interactions methods used in this study.

Keywords

miRNA – mRNA target interactions, Target validation, Complementarity score, Computational methods.

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