Table 6.

Comparison between the results of our computational approach and seed regions of known and putative miRNAs

Method	7-mers identified	7-mers corresponding to known or putative miRNAs	expected by chance	number of known or putative miRNAs	P-value
CO	465	114	50.3	217	1.5 · 10-17
SA	214	62	23.1	180	1.6 · 10-13
CSA	113	30	12.2	96	2.2 · 10-6
CO ∩ CSA	59	19	6.38	77	8.0 · 10-6
CO ∪ SA	601	149	65.0	285	3.4 · 10-23

r Same as Table 2 for known and putative miRNAs together. The total number of 7-mers which are seed regions of known or putative miRNA is 1772.