Figure 1
From: Bioinformatic discovery of microRNA precursors from human ESTs and introns
Illustration of how to infer putative miRNAs. After applying Srnaloop, we noted the positions of the first nucleotide (Pfn) and the terminal nucleotide (Ptn) of the terminal loop. We elongated each putative miRNA by two nucleotides at each end. By doing so, we acquired 26-nt putative miRNAs, each of which is located between (Pfn-24, Pfn+1) or (Ptn+1, Ptn+26) within each candidate hairpin.