Hi Kart, Karthik K N <karthikuttan at="" ...=""> writes: > > Dear Members, > > Are there packages for searching miRNA targets in Bioconductor? > > I Have a list of miRNAs each of whose common target I want to pull out from > TargetScan, PicTar, miRanda, miRDB etc. Is this really possible? > > As a last resort, which BioC/R package can help me search the > aforementioned databases and save the targets (that is common to all the > databases) in a txt or excel format? you could try the BioC RmiR and RmiR.Hs.miRNA packages which integrate different databases of predicted human gene targets alternatively use an on-line tool such as mirDIP <http: ophid.utoronto.ca="" mirdip="" search.jsp=""> for example. The only single database that is available on BioC is targetscan for human and mouse only ('targetscan.Hs.eg.db', 'targetscan.Mm.eg.db'). HTH. J. > > It is taking hell lot of time searching all databases! > > Thanks a lot, > > Regards, > > Kart >