Combination of measures distinguishes pre-miRNAs from other stem-loops in the genome of the newly sequenced Anopheles darlingi

Table 1 Positive/Negative set sizes

Dataset	Positive Set	Negative Set	Overlapping	Extracted candidates
A. gambiae	67	2 244 922	92	2 245 014
D. melanogaster	157	1 316 105	200	1 316 305
A. darlingi	44	1 748 087	66	1 748 153

The Table shows the number of elements in the positive and negative sets, the number of candidates overlapping elements of the positive set and the total number of extracted candidates for each dataset. For A. darlingi, the positive set is the set of clear homologs to A. gambiae pre-miRNAs whereas in all other datasets the positive set corresponds to the known precursors. In all cases, the negative set consists in the presumptive non-precursor candidates which do not overlap precursors in the positive set.

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