We have evaluated the prediction performance of miRRim by plotting the number of total predictions in the human genome (X-axis) and the number of known miRNA detacted (Y-axis). In figure 1, the prediction performances of miRRim as well as Berezikov et al. (2005), miRNAMap 1.0 (Hsu et al. 2006), RNAmicro 1.1 (Hertel and Stadler 2006), and Li et al. (2006) are shown. With miRRim, the total number of predictions was smaller than those of the other methods when the coverage was the same. The exact numbers and genomic coordinates of miRNAs predicted by miRRim are shown in http://mirrim.ncrna.org/TableS1.html. For more details, see Terai et al. (2007).

Figure 1 Number of miRNA detected and total number of predictions

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