How to perform target mining?
The Target Mining page provides advanced search options for miRNAs or their gene targets. First, you need to click on one of the radio buttons to choose either miRNA search or gene target search. There are two optional check boxes for the exclusion of miRNAs with too many predicted targets or targets with low scores. You may adjust the threshold values to tailor for your needs. The default recommendation is to only include targets with scores >60 and miRNAs with <800 targets. You may provide your own miRNA or gene list. Alternatively, you may choose the pre-compiled pathway gene list from the page. When searching for miRNA gene targets, full mature miRNA names are required. For the search of miRNA regulators, you may provide either NCBI gene IDs or official gene symbols. If symbols are used in the search, you also need to specify the species. Please use space or comma to separate the entries.
