miRLAB

miRLAB is an R package for automating the procedure of inferring and validating miRNA-mRNA regulatory relationships. The package provides a complete set of pipelines for testing new methods and analysing new expression datasets. miRLAB includes a pipeline to obtain matched miRNA and mRNA expression datasets directly from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA, based on TCGA Assembler), the benchmark computational methods for inferring miRNA-mRNA regulatory relationships, the functions for validating the predictions using miRNA experimentally validated target data and miRNA transfection data, and tools to compare the results from different computational methods.