Tar-Find Gene Extractor: A VIRmiRNA Tar-Find Companion Application for Extracting Gene Information

The VIRmiRNA Tar-Find web resource is available for the prediction of known and novel miRNA targets. Predicted miRNA targets are provided as hundreds to thousands of Ensembl transcript IDs, complicating and slowing the determination of the official gene symbol and function. We developed the Tar- Find Gene Extractor tool for the efficient, real-time conversion of VIRmiRNA Tar-Find miRNA target prediction results from Ensembl transcript IDs to official gene symbol and gene functions. The Tar-Find Gene Extractor operates through Microsoft ExcelTM, thus making this an easy to use tool for fast and efficient retrieval of Tar-Find predicted miRNA target genes’ information

Availability and implementation

The Tar-Find Gene Extractor Tool is available at Git Hub at https://github.com/ccdoss/tge.

Keywords: DAVID gene ID conversion tool; MiRNA target prediction; Ensembl database; Gene id retrieval; VIRmiRNA, Gene ID conversion

Abbreviations: TGE- Tar-Find Gene Extractor; Database for Annotation, Visualization and Integrated Discovery-DAVID