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Table 1 Percentage of sequences with low P-values

From: Fast selection of miRNA candidates based on large-scale pre-computed MFE sets of randomized sequences

Data set

Total # sequences analyzed

% sequences with an error/not found

% sequences with P <0.05

% sequences with P <0.01

% sequences with P < =0.001

% sequences with P < =0.0001

Random

250000

21.3

3.0

1.5

0.8

0.5

MirBase

15172

1.0

89.9

84.4

75.9

66.8

EBV known miRNAs

25

0.0

96.0

92.0

88.0

76.0

EBV genome

566988

0.1

19.1

10.7

5.7

3.6

  1. This table shows the percentage of sequences below the given P-value in four different data sets. A data set of random sequences shows a very low percentage with a P-value < = 0.001. A high percentage of known miRNAs sequences is within the same range.