mirCellType mirCellType is an online tool to infer cell type composition of complex samples based on the identified cell type-specific miRNA signatures. mirCellType would further facilitate the development of miRNA biomarkers by highlighting the cell type-specific sources of tumor miRNAs or circulating miRNAs.

To use mirCellType simply upload human miRNA expression data file in tab delimited text format (up to 20M). The expression matrix should be a matrix with pre-miRNA or mature miRNA in the rows and samples in the columns.

This online tool provides two methods to evaluate cellular component: single sample genomic enrichment analysis (ssGSEA) method and abundance-based method.

Its output includes the estimated cell composition scores (en-richment scores from the ssGSEA method or abundance from the abundance-based method) and a clustered heatmap visualization thereof.