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Conversely, miRNA activity is also titrated by competitive endogenous RNA such as lncRNA with sponge effect. Web-based server, miRNACancerMap, aims to unravel lncRNA-miRNA-mRNA tripartite complexity to predict the function and clinical relevance of miRNA with network perspective. In conjunction with large-scale data and information integration, miRNACancerMap implements various algorithms and pipelines to construct dynamic miRNA-centered network with rigorous Systems Biology approaches and the state-of-the-art visualization tool. The capability of the server to generate testable hypotheses was exemplified with cases to identify hub miRNAs regulating most of the differentially-expressed genes involved in cancer stage transition, miRNA-TF pairs shared by pan-cancers and lncRNA sponges validated by multiple datasets. LncRNAs sharing the same miRNAs binding sites as mRNAs can sequester miRNAs and indirectly regulate the activity of the related mRNAs. We have re-annotated traditional microarray chips, and included these datasets in the server to enable validation of the predicted lncRNA-miRNA-mRNA regulations derived from TCGA RNA-seq data. Of note, our server enables identifying miRNAs associated with cancer signaling pathways, and related lncRNA sponges from pan-cancers with only a few mouse clicks.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Availability and implementation<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>http:\/\/cis.hku.hk\/miRNACancerMAP<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Supplementary information<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1093\/bioinformatics\/bty320","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2018,4,19]],"date-time":"2018-04-19T19:10:53Z","timestamp":1524165053000},"page":"3211-3213","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":32,"title":["miRNACancerMAP: an integrative web server inferring miRNA regulation network for cancer"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"34","author":[{"given":"Yin","family":"Tong","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Biological Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China"}]},{"given":"Beibei","family":"Ru","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Biological Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-2911-8446","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Jiangwen","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Biological Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China"}]}],"member":"286","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2018,4,20]]},"reference":[{"key":"2023012704185472800_bty320-B1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"e05005","DOI":"10.7554\/eLife.05005","article-title":"Predicting effective microRNA target sites in mammalian mRNAs","volume":"4","author":"Agarwal","year":"2015","journal-title":"Elife"},{"key":"2023012704185472800_bty320-B2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"R90","DOI":"10.1186\/gb-2010-11-8-r90","article-title":"Comprehensive modeling of microRNA targets predicts functional non-conserved and non-canonical sites","volume":"11","author":"Betel","year":"2010","journal-title":"Genome Biol"},{"key":"2023012704185472800_bty320-B3","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"402","DOI":"10.1038\/msb.2010.58","article-title":"MicroRNA-122 as a regulator of mitochondrial metabolic gene network in hepatocellular carcinoma","volume":"6","author":"Burchard","year":"2010","journal-title":"Mol. 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