Feature | Abbreviation | Description | Frequency chosen |
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Site | |||
 Site type | site type | Type of site (8mer, 7mer-m8, or 7mer-A1) [37] | 100% |
 Site position 9 | site9 | Identity of nucleotide at position 9 of the site | 2% |
 Site position 10 | site10 | Identity of nucleotide at position 10 of the site | 0% |
 Local AU content | local_AU | AU content within 30 nucleotides of the site [37] | 51% |
 3′ supplementary pairing | 3P_score | Supplementary pairing at the miRNA 3′ end [37] | 4% |
 Energy of 3′ supplementary pairing | 3P_energy | Thermodynamic energy of supplementary pairing at the miRNA 3′ end (ΔG duplex – ΔG seed duplex) (Fig. 3c) | 94% |
 Predicted structural accessibility | SA | log10(Probability that a 25-nt segment centered on the match to miRNA position 7 is unpaired) (Fig. 3d) | 92% |
 Probability of conserved targetinga | P CT | Probability of site conservation, controlling for dinucleotide evolution and site context [57] | 100% |
mRNA | |||
 5′ UTR length | len_5UTR | log10(Length of the 5′ UTR) | 30% |
 ORF length | len_ORF | log10(Length of the ORF) [51] | 100% |
 3′ UTR length | len_3UTR | log10(Length of the 3′ UTR) [91] | 100% |
 5′ UTR AU content | AU_5UTR | Fractional AU content in the 5′ UTR | 17% |
 ORF AU content | AU_ORF | Fractional AU content in the ORF | 37% |
 3′ UTR AU content | AU_3UTR | Fractional AU content in the 3′ UTR | 56% |
 Distance from stop codon | dist_stop | log10(Distance of site from stop codon) | 4% |
 Minimum distance | min_dist | log10(Minimum distance of site from stop codon or poly(A) cleavage site) [37, 41, 92] | 55% |
 Weak canonical sites in mRNA | other_sites | Number of 8mer sites in the 5′ UTR and ORF and offset-6mer, 6mer-A1, and 6mer sites in the 3′ UTR [51] | 100% |