targets {rtracklayer} | R Documentation

## microRNA target sites

### Description

A data frame of human microRNA target sites retrieved from MiRBase. This is a subset of the `hsTargets` data frame in the `microRNA` package. See the `rtracklayer` vignette for more details.

### Usage

    data(targets)

### Format

A data frame with 2981 observations on the following 6 variables.

`name`

  The miRBase ID of the microRNA.

`target`

  The Ensembl ID of the targeted transcript.

`chrom`

  The name of the chromosome for target site.

`start`

  Target start position.

`end`

  Target stop position.

`strand`

  The strand of the target site, `"+"`, or `"-"`.

### Source

The `microRNA` package, dataset `hsTargets`. Originally MiRBase (http://microrna.sanger.ac.uk/).

### Examples

    data(targets)
    targetTrack <- with(targets,
        GenomicData(IRanges::IRanges(start, end),
                    strand = strand, chrom = chrom))

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