Table 1. Distribution of seed energies E for different seed lengths (= number of base pairs; no bulges allowed) with μ|σ = mean|standard deviation. The highlighted row corresponds to the seed constraints of the benchmark.

Seed length	min(E)	max(E)	μ(E)	σ(E)
5	−9.2	8.3	−1.6	2.5
6	−12.5	9.6	−3.2	2.8
7	−15.8	9.9	−4.8	3.1
8	−19.1	11.2	−6.4	3.4