Figure 2.

(A) Scatter plot of miRNA sequence similarity score compared to miRNA seed similarity score. Since the plot contains 3.25 million data points, the density distribution is also shown in red. The green and blue sequences represent extreme examples, i.e. miRNAs with high sequence similarity compared to the seed similarity (blue) and miRNAs with high seed sequence similarity compared to the overall lower sequence similarity (green). (B) Scatterplots for the sequence similarity and the seed similarity, each compared to the genomic distance. The blue ellipses highlight miRNAs with similar sequences and similar seeds, respectively, that also have close genomic proximity.