NOVOMIR: De Novo Prediction of MicroRNA-Coding Regions in a Single Plant-Genome

Table 2

Specificity of NOVOMIR.

Data set	# sequences	Specificity5
A. thaliana mRNAs	710	0.975
noncoding RNAs1	1,296	1.000
noncoding RNAs2	455	0.982
shuffled A. thaliana pre-miRNAs	2,760	0.998
A. thaliana repetitive elements3	56	0.983
H. sapiens pseudohairpins	8,000	0.990
A. thaliana pseudohairpins	10,000	0.991
A. thaliana 4	50,000	1.000

1 631 A. thaliana tRNAs, 63 5.8 S rRNAs, 602 5 S rRNAs
2 noncoding RNAs from RFAM
3 in total 134,000 nt
⁴10×5,000 sequences of a length between 80 and 800 nt s randomly selected from the five chromosomes of A. thaliana
5 Specificity is calculated as 𝑇𝑁/(𝑇𝑁+𝐹𝑃).