a<p>poly-A stretches removed.</p>b<p>17–28 nt size filtering,reads used by miRDeep2 quantification process.</p>c<p>reads with at least one and at most five reported alignments, used by the miRDeep2 prediction process.</p><p>* In AGO sample 2, many reads below 10 counts were present, subsequently discarded by miRDeep2 processes.</p