Table 1.

Functional comparison of eRNA, miRspring, and miRDeep2

Functionality	eRNA	miRspring	miRDeep2
Identification of known miRNAs	+	+	+
Visualization of analytic results	-	+	+
Discovery of miRNAs	-	-	+
miRNA expression profiling analysis	+	-	+
Batch data processing	+	-	-
Visualization of sequencing quality control	+	-	-

+, available functions. -, unavailable functions.