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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