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targets

microRNA target sites

Description

A data frame of human microRNA target sites retrieved from MiRBase. This is a subset of the hsTargets data frame in the microRNA package. See the rtracklayer vignette for more details.

Usage

data(targets)

Format

A data frame with 2981 observations on the following 6 variables.

name: The miRBase ID of the microRNA.
target: The Ensembl ID of the targeted transcript.
chrom: The name of the chromosome for target site.
start: Target start position.
end: Target stop position.
strand: The strand of the target site, "+", or "-".

Source

The microRNA package, dataset hsTargets. Originally MiRBase (http://microrna.sanger.ac.uk/).

Examples

data(targets)
targetTrack <- with(targets, 
    GenomicData(IRanges::IRanges(start, end), 
                strand = strand, chrom = chrom))

rtracklayer

R interface to genome annotation files and the UCSC genome browser

v1.50.0

Artistic-2.0 + file LICENSE

Authors

Michael Lawrence, Vince Carey, Robert Gentleman

Initial release