Plant MicroRNA Prediction by Supervised Machine Learning Using C5.0 Decision Trees

Table 7

Results from exclusion of each of the 13 taxonomic groups.

Taxonomic grouping	Error count	Total count of miRNAs	% correctly classified	% of full set excluded	Notes
Embryophyta	12	190	94	9.16	Physcomitrella patens (moss) —model organism
Lycopodiophyta	0	55	100	2.65	Selaginella moellendorffii (ancient vascular plant lineage)—model organism
Brassicaceae	0	440	100	20.22	Dicot, two Arabidopsis
Caricaceae	0	1	100	0.05	Dicot, papaya
Euphorbiaceae	0	7	100	0.34	Dicot, castor oil plant
Fabaceae	0	560	100	27.00	Dicot, three legumes
Salicaceae	16	73	78	3.52	Dicot, poplar tree
Solanaceae	1	14	93	0.68	Dicot, tomato plant
Vitaceae	9	89	94	4.29	Dicot, common grape
Rutaceae	0	9	100	0.43	Dicot, two citrus trees
Panicoideae	8	166	95	8.00	Monocot, Zea mays
Poaceae	0	404	100	19.48	Monocot, rice and sorghum
Pooideae	13	66	80	3.18	Monocot, Brachypodium distachyon (model organism)