From our rigorous analysis pipeline, which covers three different well-established algorithms (IntaRNA, miRanda, and psRNATarget) to predict RNA-RNA interactions, we have identified 122 and 106 host antiviral miRNAs against SARS-CoV (R) and SARS-CoV-2 (R), respectively (Figures 2A,B, Supplementary File 2).
We identified 1,018 miRNAs to target SARS-CoV-2 genes, among which 98 miRNAs are predicted to target SARS-CoV-2 genes uniquely when compared with other viruses studied here (Supplementary Table S6).