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Additionally, these methods are based on statistical associations between the gene expression levels of miRNAs and mRNAs, so they may not be able to reveal real gene regulatory relationships, which are causal relationships.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Results: We propose a novel method to infer condition-specific miRNA activity by considering (i) the difference between the regulatory behavior that an miRNA has in the condition of interest and its behavior in the other conditions; (ii) the causal semantics of miRNA\u2013mRNA relationships. The method is applied to the epithelial\u2013mesenchymal transition (EMT) and multi-class cancer (MCC) datasets. The validation by the results of transfection experiments shows that our approach is effective in discovering significant miRNA\u2013mRNA interactions. Functional and pathway analysis and literature validation indicate that the identified active miRNAs are closely associated with the specific biological processes, diseases and pathways. More detailed analysis of the activity of the active miRNAs implies that some active miRNAs show different regulation types in different conditions, but some have the same regulation types and their activity only differs in different conditions in the strengths of regulation.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Availability and implementation: The R and Matlab scripts are in the Supplementary materials .<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Contact: \u00a0jiuyong.li@unisa.edu.au<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Supplementary information: \u00a0Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1093\/bioinformatics\/btu489","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2014,7,25]],"date-time":"2014-07-25T04:43:31Z","timestamp":1406263411000},"page":"3070-3077","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":25,"title":["Inferring condition-specific miRNA activity from matched miRNA and mRNA expression 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