Research Article

An Approach to Identify Individual Functional Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms and Isoform MicroRNAs

Table 1

The feature set of mature miRNA identification.

categoryMature miRNA(number)MiRNA:miRNAduplex(number)Pre-miRNAPri-miRNA
(number)(number)

lengthDistance to terminal loop(

minimum free energyMFE1(9nt-MFE; 5nt-MFE; 3nt-MFE; +3nt-MFE; (4)

Structural specificity(50)Left 9nt flank region(18); right 3nt flank region(6)

Paired nucleotidePaired nucleotide(25)

Number of “-”3-8nt; 9-12nt; -2-2nt; (

Paired nucleotideFirst nucleotide type(; First nucleotide paired(; Single nucleotide frequency(5)