Comparison with <i>ProMiR</i>.

Average distance distributions for the Top Scoring candidates provided by MatureBayes (red) and ProMiR (blue) on a common human/mouse blind test set. The set consisted of 301 miRNA precursors which were correctly predicted by ProMiR to contain a mature miRNA.ProMiR correctly identified the functional stem for 172/301, which were used for the respective distance distribution. The distance distribution for MatureBayes is generated using 134/301 precursors for which the correct stem was predicted, using the Top Scorer procedure. The statistical difference between the two distributions was evaluated using the Kolmogorov-Smirnov Test, confirming that the two datasets come from different distributions (p-value).