Table 2.

Splicing and conservation characteristics of the me-ncRNAs

ncRNA category	PUT	PST	ANEST	CPMH*	CFLS*
ES me-ncRNAs	56%	44%	2.9	81	37
Other ml-ncRNA	71%	29%	3.7	23#	23

ES: Experimentally Supported; PUT: Percentage of Unspliced Transcripts; PST: Percentage of Spliced Transcripts; ANEST: Average Number of Exons of Spliced Transcripts; CPMH: Conservation of Pre-miRNA Hairpins; CFLS: Conservation of Full Length Sequence;

*Conservation was estimated as the average PhastCons score (APCSs), For "Pre-miRNA hairpins in other ml-ncRNAs", conservation is calculated for all PriMir extracted hairpins