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. 2014 May 2;15:124. doi: 10.1186/1471-2105-15-124

Table 3.

Main characteristics of tools used as references in this work

Tool
Algorithm
# Features
Pre-processing
Train
Source
      (+) (−) (+) (−) (+) (−)
Triplet −SVM
SVM
32
noML
BP>18
163
168
5.0
CDS
 
 
 
 
MFE<−15
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
noML
 
 
 
 
MiPred
RF
34
noML
BP>18
163
168
8.2
CDS
 
 
 
 
MFE<−15
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
50<len<138
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
noML
 
 
 
 
MicroPred
SVM
21
RR
len<151
Not
Not
12
CDS
 
 
 
 
RR
Given
Given
 
ncRNAs
 
 
 
 
 
Clearly
Clearly
 
 
G 2DE
G 2DE
7
RR
BP>18
460
460
12.0
CDS
 
 
 
noML
MFE<−25
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
noML
 
 
 
 
Mirident
SVM
1300
 
BP>18
484
484
11.0
CDS
 
 
 
RR
MFE<−25
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
noML
50<len<138
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
RR
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
noML
 
 
 
 
HuntMi
RF
28
ExpVal
Evalue≤102
Not
Not
17.0
CDS
 
 
 
 
 
Given
Given
 
mRNA
          Clearly Clearly   ncRNA

BP = Number of base pairs on the stem, MFE = Minimum Free Energy of the secondary structure, noML = no Multiple Loops, RR = Removed Redundancies, E-value ≤ 102 = expected value in BLASTN against mirbase, ExpVal = Only experimentally validated precursors and RF = Random forest.