Bioinformatics analysis with starbase v2.0 revealed that MALAT1 formed complementary base pairing (two putative 7-mer complementary sequences) with miR-23b-3p (Fig. 5a), which has been shown to target ATG12 and regulates autophagy-associated chemoresistance in gastric cancer in the previous study [24]. Here, MALAT1 is linked to gastric cancer.