Automatically clustering large-scale miRNA sequences: methods and experiments

BMC Genomics

Table 1 Statistical results of miRNA families in miRBase16 and miRBase17

miRBase		miRBase16	miRBase17
Species		142	153
Family numbers		1148	1220
Family number of each organism	animal	858(319)*	914(331)
	plant	256(75)	268(82)
	viruses	33(2)	37(2)
	chromalveolata	1(1)	1(1)

* For example, 858 (319) means that there are 858 animal families, and 319 of them contain no less than 5 members.

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