maTE: Discovering Expressed Interactions between microRNAs and their Targets

Disease is often manifested via changes in transcript and protein abundance. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are instrumental in regulating protein abundance and may measurably influence transcript levels. miRNAs often target more than one mRNA (for humans, the average is three), and mRNAs are often targeted by more than one miRNA (for the genes considered in this study, the average is also three). Therefore, it is difficult to determine the miRNAs that may cause the observed differential gene expression. We present a novel approach, maTE, which is based on machine learning, that integrates information about miRNA target genes with gene expression data. maTE depends on the availability of a sufficient amount of patient and control samples. The samples are used to train classifiers to accurately classify the samples on a per miRNA basis. Multiple high scoring miRNAs are used to build a final classifier to improve separation.

Version Metadata:
- Date: 8/1/2021
- Sena Project
- V3: workflow has output of group size

Find the full data set and documentation below in the "External resources" section.

External resources

• maTE (blog) - Malik Yousef Blog
• maTE - GitHub repository by 'malikyousef'
• maTE (paper) - Bioinformatics, Volume 35, Issue 20, 15 October 2019