CHRONOS (version 1.0.3)

downloadMiRecords: Download miRNA-mRNA interactions for an organism.

Description

Download miRNA-mRNA interactions for an organism.

Usage

downloadMiRecords(org, pn, update, databases)

Arguments

org

KEGG organism identifier.

pn

Number of databases that verify miRNA-mRNA interactions.

update

Download preprocessed data (update=FALSE) or new data from miRecords (update=TRUE).

databases

Specify which miRNA-mRNA interaction databases will be used.

Value

Downloaded data is stored in CHRONOS/extdata/Downloads/miRecords//miRNATargets.RData

Details

miRecords is a resource for animal miRNA-target interactions. The Predicted Targets component of miRecords is an integration of predicted miRNA targets produced by 11 established miRNA target prediction tools, namely DIANA-microT, MicroInspector, miRanda, MirTarget2, miTarget, NBmiRTar, PicTar, PITA, RNA22, RNAhybrid, and TargetScan/TargertScanS.

References

• http://c1.accurascience.com/miRecords

Examples

# Load extracted linear subpathways from toy data
load(system.file('extdata', 'Examples//data.RData', package='CHRONOS'))

## Not run: downloadMiRecords(org='hsa', pn=5, update=FALSE, databases='All')