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Research in miRNA-mRNA Regulatory Network Based on NetMatchStar

  

  1. (1.College of Engineering, Dali University, Dali, Yunnan 671003, China; 2. College of Agriculture and Biology Science, Dali University, Dali, Yunnan 671003, China)
  • Received:2017-10-25 Online:2017-12-15 Published:2017-12-15

Abstract: To study the regulatory relationships between miRNAs and mRNAs, the network match star(NetMatchStar)method is applied to identify network motifs of the integrated miRNA-mRNA regulatory network, including miRTarBase, TarBase, and miRWalk databases. Then, this study performs a pathway enrichment analysis of the target genes in the sub- networks constituted by the identified network motifs. Results show that the miRNA-mRNA regulatory sub-networks could simplify the analysis of gene regulatory networks. Moreover, the enrichment analysis of target genes could help understand the biological functions of miRNAs.

Key words: miRNA, mRNA, miRNA-mRNA regulatory network, NetMatchStar, network motif, enrichment analysis

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