| Statistics of miRNA-target interactions in miRTarBase | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Species | No. of miRNA-target interactions (MTIs) | No. of miRNAs | No. of target genes | No. of articles | No. of MTIs are validated by | |||||
| Western blot | Luciferase assay | pSILAC | Microarray | NGS | CLIPseq | |||||
| Total | 5,173,924 | 5,818 | 33,071 | 9,240 | 5,263 | 7,602 | 506 | 13,680 | 348,205 | 4,805,803 |
| Human | 4,475,477 | 3,012 | 17,387 | 7,529 | 4,131 | 5,855 | 504 | 12,675 | 304,948 | 4,153,265 |
| Mouse | 693,784 | 2,249 | 14,313 | 1,048 | 790 | 1,095 | 2 | 765 | 39,856 | 652,538 |
| Nematode | 3,220 | 154 | 455 | 37 | 3 | 41 | 0 | 1 | 3,179 | 0 |
| Rat | 503 | 158 | 267 | 334 | 218 | 247 | 0 | 190 | 6 | 0 |
| Cattle | 244 | 23 | 112 | 17 | 6 | 10 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Epstein-Barr virus | 199 | 12 | 190 | 22 | 5 | 8 | 0 | 4 | 189 | 0 |
| Fruit fly | 148 | 46 | 87 | 50 | 19 | 140 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 0 |
| Zebrafish | 136 | 40 | 99 | 56 | 52 | 103 | 0 | 7 | 5 | 0 |
| Thale cress | 94 | 40 | 68 | 23 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 13 | 21 | 0 |
| Chicken | 52 | 33 | 36 | 37 | 12 | 48 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| HHV-8 | 18 | 8 | 15 | 13 | 4 | 17 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| Pig | 16 | 14 | 16 | 29 | 8 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| African clawed frog | 4 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dog | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Zebra finch | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Rhesus monkey | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Silkworm | 3 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sheep | 2 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Chimpanzee | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Herpes B virus | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Tomato | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Chinese hamster | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Cowpea | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Western balsam poplar | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Western clawed frog | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Rice | 1 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mareks disease virus | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Japanese medaka | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |