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1. Enter a WormBase ID, a gene symbol (e.g. hbl-1), or a Refseq ID (e.g. NM_076575):
AND/OR

2. Select one of the following:

a conserved* microRNA family

a nonconserved* microRNA family

*conserved = conserved across C. elegans and C. briggsae

TargetScan predicts biological targets of miRNAs by searching for the presence of conserved 8mer and 7mer sites that match the seed region of each miRNA (ref. 1). As an option, nonconserved sites are also predicted.

TargetScanWorm displays predicted regulatory targets of worm microRNAs (ref. 2).

This website considers matches to sites in the 3-species 3' UTRs.

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References:
1) Conserved Seed Pairing, Often Flanked by Adenosines, Indicates that Thousands of Human Genes are MicroRNA Targets
Benjamin P Lewis, Christopher B Burge, David P Bartel.     Cell, 120:15-20 (2005).
 
2) Large-scale sequencing reveals 21U-RNAs and additional microRNAs and endogenous siRNAs in Caenorhabditis elegans
J Graham Ruby, Calvin Jan, Christopher Player, Michael J Axtell, William Lee, Chad Nusbaum, Hui Ge, David P Bartel.     Cell, 127:1193-207 (2006).
Links
  • Bartel lab
  • Whitehead Institute
  • MiRscan Web Server
  • Burge lab
  • MIT Department of Biology
  • miRBase
  • Bioinformatics and Research Computing (Whitehead Institute)

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