Bio2BEL miRTarBase

Serializes text-mined miRNA-target interactions to BEL

Installation

bio2bel_mirtarbase can be installed easily from PyPI with the following code in your favorite terminal:

$ python3 -m pip install bio2bel_mirtarbase

or from the latest code on GitHub with:

$ python3 -m pip install git+https://github.com/bio2bel/mirtarbase.git@master

Setup

miRTarBase can be downloaded and populated from either the Python REPL or the automatically installed command line utility.

Python REPL

>>> import bio2bel_mirtarbase
>>> mirtarbase_manager = bio2bel_mirtarbase.Manager()
>>> mirtarbase_manager.populate()

Command Line Utility

bio2bel_mirtarbase populate

Citations

• Chih-Hung Chou, et al; miRTarBase 2016: updates to the experimentally validated miRNA-target interactions database. Nucleic Acids Res 2016; 44 (D1): D239-D247. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkv1258

Links

• http://mirtarbase.mbc.nctu.edu.tw/