| RRI | RNA-RNA interaction |
| CoM | compensatory mutation |
| MFE | minimum free energy |
| nt | nucleotide |
| ww, wm, mw, mm | sRNA-mRNA combinations of (w)ildtype and (m)utated variants |
| AUAU, AUCG, … | CoM classes where the first two letters encode the wildtype and the last two letters the mutated nts, e.g., AUCG encodes the mutation of either an AU or UA RRI base pair into either CG or GC |