Table 5.

Results for comparison between two precursor prediction methods.

Test Set	Total hairpins	Triplet SVM (%)	HHMMiR (%)
Positive Sets
New human hairpins in registry at the time.	39	92.3	97.4
M. musculus	36	94.4	88.9
R. norvegicus	25	80.0	84.0
G. gallus	13	84.6	100
D. rerio	6	66.7	100
C. elegans	110	86.4	90.9
C. briggsae	73	95.9	95.9
D. melanogaster	71	91.6	95.8
D. pseudoobscura	71	90.1	98.6
A. thaliana	75	92.0	97.3
O. sativa	96	94.8	86.5
Epstein Barr virus	5	100	80.0
TOTAL	620	91	93.2
Negative Sets
Folded genome hairpins from Chromosome 19	2444	89	88.6
Negative hairpin Set	1000	88.1	89.4
TOTAL	3444	88.7	88.8

The percentages represent the ratio of hairpins correctly predicted.