Other BioC packages

TargetScan predicted microRNA targets

TargetScan is a database of predicted microRNA targets, developed at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research. To facilitate the use of this database in BioConductor we created annotation R packages from it.

Download and Installation

You will need to install the core BioConductor packages first. See the BioConductor web site for details on this. Then, choose a package for your organism and your operating system:

• Human, Microsoft Windows (all versions)
  Download this file, save it in a temporary directory, and then start R. From the Packages menu choose 'Install packages from local zip files' and select the saved file.
• Human, Mac OSX (all versions)
  Currently not available.
• Human, Linux and Unix systems, R source package
  Download this file, save it in a temporary directory, and start R. Install the downloaded package using the install.packages() function: give the full path of the saved file and use the 'repos=NULL' argument of install.packages().
• Mouse, Microsoft Windows (all versions)
  Download this file, save it in a temporary directory, and then start R. From the Packages menu choose 'Install packages from local zip files' and select the saved file.
• Mouse, Mac OSX (all versions)
  Currently not available.
• Mouse, Linux and Unix systems, R source package
  Download this file, save it in a temporary directory, and start R. Install the downloaded package using the install.packages() function: give the full path of the saved file and use the 'repos=NULL' argument of install.packages().