MatchScore at different microRNA score threshold
Box and whisker plots for the distribution of our calculated MatchScore (see Materials and methods), separate for 5′ (A and D), 3′ (B and E) and unspecified prime (C and F) mature sequences matching to T. gondii hairpins. The distribution is calculated for different microRNA cutoff values provided by the learned models for human and rodents. Panels A−C show human mature microRNAs matching to predicted T. gondii hairpins, while panels D−F show the same information for rodents. Unspecified prime (U′) refers to mature sequences for which 5′ or 3″ were not specified in miRBase.