2.2. miR Prediction
The miRTarget and miRBase programmes were used to predict the similarities between the SARS-CoV-2 genome and human miRs; e-value <10 and score >70 were considered as significant. DianaTools miRPath V3 were then used to create heat maps for pathways affected by selected miRs, focusing on the microT-CDS version 5.0 database. The p value threshold was 0.05 and microT threshold was 0.8. Heatmap analysis was done with pathway intersection [24].