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. 2013 Jul 26;8(7):e70153. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0070153

Table 4. Features importance.

Rank Feature name Mean decreaseGini index
1 MFE of seed region 73.382
2 Position 2 25.282
3 G:C’s in seed region 23.232
4 MFE of complete alignment 20.210
5 Position 4 18.036
6 A:U’s in complete alignment 14.937
7 Alignment score 14.894
8 G:U’s in seed region 14.12
9 A:U’s in seed region 13.23
10 Position 7 12.702
11 Position 6 12.104
12 G:C’s in complete alignment 11.028
13 Position 15 10.043
14 Alignment length 9.954
15 Position 13 9.702
16 Mismatches in complete alignment 9.672
17 Position 3 8.644
18 Position 16 8.576
19 Position 5 8.249
20 Position 8 7.709
21 Position 9 7.667
22 G:U’s in complete alignment 7.297
23 Position 1 6.625
24 Position 10 6.114
25 Position 14 6.024
26 Position 11 5.978
27 Position 20 5.770
28 Position 18 5.348
29 Position 17 5.045
30 Position 12 5.027
31 Gaps in complete alignment 4.895
32 Position 19 4.087
33 Mismatches in seed region 2.939
34 Gaps in seed region 0.000

Ranking given according to features importance computed in the course of training. The decrease in nodes impurity, measured by the Gini index, is computed as the average among all trees.