Mirinho: An efficient and general plant and animal pre-miRNA predictor for genomic and deep sequencing data

BMC Bioinformatics

Table 4 Comparison of the sensitivity and precision using as input the insect genomes of dataset D5

Organism	Method	Sensitivity	Precision
A. pisum	Mirinho	69.92	0.52
	CSHMM	23.58	0.05
	miRPara	36.59	0.14
	MIReNA	24.39	3.42
C. quinquefasciatus	Mirinho	69.17	0.25
	CSHMM	48.51	0.10
	miRPara	28.33	0.07
	MIReNA	18.33	2.00
H. melpomene	Mirinho	78.22	0.94
	CSHMM	48.51	0.10
	miRPara	58.42	0.23
	MIReNA	31.68	7.88

The energy threshold used in MIRINHO was e = -20.6. Values are given in percentage.

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