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This article is part of the supplement: Selected papers from the Seventh Asia-Pacific Bioinformatics Conference (APBC 2009)

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HHMMiR: efficient de novo prediction of microRNAs using hierarchical hidden Markov models

Sabah Kadri1*, Veronica Hinman2 and Panayiotis V Benos3*

Author Affiliations

1 Lane Center for Computational Biology, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA

2 Department of Biological Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA

3 Department of Computational Biology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA

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BMC Bioinformatics 2009, 10(Suppl 1):S35 doi:10.1186/1471-2105-10-S1-S35

Published: 30 January 2009

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This file contains the results of summarization of the microRNA registry (version 10.1, December 2007) [34] hairpin characteristics for each species.

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Additional File 2:

This file contains a more detailed description of the algorithms used for parameter estimation and classification using HHMMs.

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