Table 5.

Comparison between the results of our computational approach and seed regions of putative miRNAs listed in miRNAMap [45].

Method	7-mers identified	7-mers corresponding to putative miRNAs	expected by chance	number of putative miRNAs	P-value
CO	465	76	26.7	101	6.7 · 10-17
SA	214	46	12.3	79	3.9 · 10-15
CSA	113	23	6.48	42	8.8 · 10-8
CO∩CSA	59	15	3.38	31	7.8 · 10-7
CO∪SA	601	98	34.4	135	1.8 · 10-21

Same as Table 2 for putative miRNAs. The total number of 7-mers which are seed regions of putative miRNA is 939.