Fig. 2

Measure of SOM training for hsa species at varying of SOM parameters. The box-plot reports the distribution of the mean between QE’ and TE’ (as defined in section “MiRNATIP configuration”), at varying of SOM parameters, i.e. map size (from 30×30 to 70×70) and α _max (from 0.75 to 0.95). Values of α _min (from 0.001 to 0.1) are omitted from the graph for the clarity of image. According to Eq. 2, the best configuration for hsa species is map size =65×65, α _max =0.85 and α _min =0.1