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Previous work has described methods using supervised learning, but they suffer from the lack of adequate training examples, a common problem in miRNA target identification, which often leads to deficient generalization ability.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Results: In this work, we introduce mirSOM, a miRNA target prediction tool based on clustering of short 3\u2032-untranslated region (3\u2032-UTR) substrings with self-organizing map (SOM). As our method uses unsupervised learning and a large set of verified Caenorhabditis elegans 3\u2032-UTRs, we did not need to resort to training using a known set of targets. Our method outperforms seven other methods in predicting the experimentally verified C.elegans true and false miRNA targets.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Availability: mirSOM miRNA target predictions are available at http:\/\/kokki.uku.fi\/bioinformatics\/mirsom.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Contact: \u00a0liisa.heikkinen@uef.fi<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Supplementary information: \u00a0Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1093\/bioinformatics\/btr144","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2011,3,22]],"date-time":"2011-03-22T02:35:42Z","timestamp":1300761342000},"page":"1247-1254","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":18,"title":["Prediction of microRNA targets in <i>Caenorhabditis elegans<\/i> using a self-organizing map"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"27","author":[{"given":"Liisa","family":"Heikkinen","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"1 Department of Biosciences, 2Department of Neurobiology, A.I.Virtanen Institute for Molecular Sciences, Biocenter Finland and 3Department of Environmental Science, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland"},{"name":"1 Department of Biosciences, 2Department of Neurobiology, A.I.Virtanen Institute for Molecular Sciences, Biocenter Finland and 3Department of Environmental Science, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Mikko","family":"Kolehmainen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"1 Department of Biosciences, 2Department of Neurobiology, A.I.Virtanen Institute for Molecular Sciences, Biocenter Finland and 3Department of Environmental Science, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Garry","family":"Wong","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"1 Department of Biosciences, 2Department of Neurobiology, A.I.Virtanen Institute for Molecular Sciences, Biocenter Finland and 3Department of Environmental Science, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland"},{"name":"1 Department of Biosciences, 2Department of Neurobiology, A.I.Virtanen Institute for Molecular Sciences, Biocenter Finland and 3Department of Environmental Science, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"286","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2011,3,21]]},"reference":[{"key":"2023012512181392900_B1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"215","DOI":"10.1016\/j.cell.2009.01.002","article-title":"MicroRNAs: target recognition and regulatory functions","volume":"136","author":"Bartel","year":"2009","journal-title":"Cell"},{"key":"2023012512181392900_B2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"e85","DOI":"10.1371\/journal.pbio.0030085","article-title":"Principles of microRNA-target recognition","volume":"3","author":"Brennecke","year":"2005","journal-title":"PLoS Biol."},{"key":"2023012512181392900_B3","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"849","DOI":"10.1038\/nsmb1138","article-title":"Perfect seed pairing is not a generally reliable predictor for miRNA-target interactions","volume":"13","author":"Didiano","year":"2006","journal-title":"Nat. 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