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Websites
- Mirnamap: a website that offers tools to cross-reference between miRNA profiles and expression profiles of its targets http://mirnamap.mbc.nctu.edu.tw/
- Repeat Masker: a program that screens DNA sequences for interspaced repeats and low complexity DNA www.repeatmasker.org
- TM4: a software designed for gene-expression analyses. www.tm4.org/mev.html