Table 1. P-values obtained by Wilcoxon rank-sum testing and Kruskal-Wallis testing functional similarity of the intra-family, inter-family and randomly selected miRNAs.

	Wilcoxon rank-sum test			Kruskal-Wallis test
	intra-inter	intra-random	inter-random	Intra-inter-random
Wang’s method	0.00E-00	0.00E-00	1.30E-03	0.00E-00
Xuan’s method	0.00E-00	0.00E-00	1.10E-03	0.00E-00
CSD+BMA	0.00E-00	0.00E-00	9.02E-04	0.00E-00
MFSP	0.00E-00	0.00E-00	1.94E-04	0.00E-00