\name{mirbaseDESCRIPTION}
\alias{mirbaseDESCRIPTION}

\title{MicroRNA IDs to Descriptions}

\description{
  mirbaseDESCRIPTION is an R object that provides mappings between
  microRNA identifiers and their full names.
}

\details{
  Each microRNA identifier maps to a character string.

  Source: miRBase (Version: 16.0)  
  ftp://mirbase.org/pub/mirbase/CURRENT/  
  With a date stamp from the source of: 10 Sep 2010
}

\examples{
    x <- mirbaseDESCRIPTION
    # first 3 entries with a description.
    mget(mappedkeys(x)[1:3], x)
}

\keyword{data}