Table 1.

Mapping summary of precursors with the small RNA datasets.

S. No	Precursors	Small RNA Dataset 1	Small RNA Dataset 2	Small RNA Dataset 3
1	No of precursors for known miRNAs	309	305	241
2	No of common precursors (for Known miRNAs) among the three datasets	219
3	No of unique precursors (for known miRNAs) among the three datasets	330
4	No of precursors for novel miRNAs	4863	4115	3509
5	No of common precursors (for novel miRNAs) among the three datasets	2003
6	No of unique precursors (for novel miRNAs) among the three datasets	6793