The experimentally verified miRNA-mRNA pairs were downloaded from starBase v3.0 (18), DIANA-Tarbase v8 (19), miRTarbase (v7.0) (20) and miRSponge (21) databases, while the experimentally validated miRNA-lncRNA pairs were extracted from starBase v3.0 (18), LncACTdb2.0 (22), DIANA-LncBase Experimental...