Plant MicroRNA Prediction by Supervised Machine Learning Using C5.0 Decision Trees

Table 9

Results from exclusion of each of the 3 taxonomic groups.

Taxonomic grouping	Error count	Total count of miRNAs	% correctly classified	% of full set excluded	Notes
Primitive	0	389	100	11.81	Physcomitrella patens (moss) and Selaginella moellendorffii (ancient vascular plant lineage), two model organisms
Monocotyledons	0	1775	100	30.67	Four species
Dicotyledons	0	946	100	57.52	Twelve species