Liang Z, Zhou H, He Z, Zheng H, Wu J. mirAct: a web tool for evaluating microRNA activity based on gene expression data.
Nucleic Acids Res 2011;
39:W139-44. [PMID:
21596785 PMCID:
PMC3125759 DOI:
10.1093/nar/gkr351]
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Abstract
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are critical regulators in the complex cellular networks. The mirAct web server (http://sysbio.ustc.edu.cn/software/mirAct) is a tool designed to investigate miRNA activity based on gene-expression data by using the negative regulation relationship between miRNAs and their target genes. mirAct supports multiple-class data and enables clustering analysis based on computationally determined miRNA activity. Here, we describe the framework of mirAct, demonstrate its performance by comparing with other similar programs and exemplify its applications using case studies.
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