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How to increase the speed of miRanda target prediction program?

I am running miRanda for miRNA target prediction and I noticed that its way too slow even when running on cluster with 60 cores. Any existing method or probable/possible suggestion/method/advice apart from this that could speed up the process? Did anybody try using GNU parallel, if yes I wanted to know how its being done.

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updated by kuttibiotech2009 • kuttibiotech2009 • written by lakhujanivijay lakhujanivijay

I uses miRanda some time ago and it was ok in terms of speed (it was ~10 putative miRNA sequences against all cDNA sequences (~35.000 sequences)). In my memory it was like a couple of hours..

Could you explain your setup please ? and also the computational time ?

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written by Nicolas Rosewick Nicolas Rosewick

agree, I have used it to predict targets for about 500 miRNAs and it doesn´t take more than 1 hour..

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written by Buffo Buffo

I have installed miRanda tool. Can u help me to get the target genes?

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written by kuttibiotech2009 • kuttibiotech2009

what are the files required to run this tool... I have only expressed miRNA sequence file. what else do we need? where to download it?

Thanks in advance

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written by kuttibiotech2009 • kuttibiotech2009

My species name is Anas platyrhynchos.

Could you please tell me how to download the entire 3' UTR sequence?

Thank you in advance

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written by kuttibiotech2009 • kuttibiotech2009

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