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Table 3 Relative importance of features for seedless and seed sites

From: MicroRNA target prediction using thermodynamic and sequence curves

 

Seedless Sites

 

Seed Sites

 

Rank

Feature

Weight

Feature

Weight

1

CDS

–0.452

Site length

–0.591

2

Site length

–0.404

CDS

–0.436

3

Seed enrichment

0.364

A U seed [9]

0.287

4

A U site [10]

0.198

Δ Δ G site [10]

–0.250

5

A U seed [10]

0.198

A U seed [10]

0.235

6

A U seed [9]

0.192

Seed enrichment

0.210

7

5’ UTR

–0.165

A U site [9]

0.208

8

Consv

0.149

Δ G seed [9]

–0.195

9

Δ Δ G site [10]

–0.148

Δ Δ G seed [9]

–0.193

10

Relative site location

–0.141

Δ Δ G seed [10]

–0.190

11

A U site [9]

0.134

Δ Δ G site [9]

–0.187

12

Δ G site [15]

0.118

A U site [10]

0.187

13

Δ G site [19]

0.116

Δ G seed [10]

–0.179

14

Δ G site [14]

0.113

5’ UTR

–0.178

15

Δ G site [17]

0.111

Seed consv

0.175

16

Δ G site [16]

0.098

Relative site location

–0.154

17

Δ Δ G site [9]

–0.093

Δ G site [12]

0.100

18

A U seed [8]

0.089

Δ G site [14]

0.097

19

A U seed [11]

0.088

3’ UTR

–0.089

20

Δ G site [12]

0.078

A U seed [3]

0.088

  1. The rank is computed by sorting by absolute value of weight in descending order. For functional covariates, the numbers in square braces indicate the coefficient index for the B-spline basis functions