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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 email, Veronica Hinman2 email and Panayiotis V Benos3 email

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

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

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

author email corresponding author email

BMC Bioinformatics 2009, 10(Suppl 1):S35doi:10.1186/1471-2105-10-S1-S35

Published: 30 January 2009

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Additional File 1:

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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