Unfortunately, the original version of this article [1] contained an error. Figures 6 and 7 were incorrect with the wrong captions. The figures have been corrected in the original article and is also included correctly below.

Fig. 6
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Scatter plot of frequencies of various types of seed alignment patterns in set of positive miRNA-mRNA interactions for Mouse (x-axis) and Human (y-axis). Among the top-10 most frequently occurring patterns, only two, namely, the 6-mer and 7-mer, are canonical seed match patterns. In the labels for the top-10 most frequently occurring patterns, 1 indicates a match, 2 indicates a mismatch, 3 a gap, and 4 indicates a GU wobble

Fig. 7
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ROC curves for 10-fold cross-validation performance of Avishkar in different regions of the gene in the human dataset