Table 3. Statistics of the novel miRNAs in the two libraries used for target prediction.

Small RNAs [18-26nt]	Grand Naine (GN1)	Rasthali (NR1)
Total Reads	4981328	8889596
Total reads that did not map to mirBase used for novel miRNA prediction	188621	396431
Total Reads Mapped to genome (Musa acuminata)	105799	217931
Total number of novel miRNA identified	43	81
Total number of novel miRNA's taken for target prediction (> = 10 Read count cut-off)	16	20