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Metric	HotKnots		PPfold(seed)
MCC	0.675	>	0.122
Average MCC ± 95% Confidence Intervals	0.687 ± 0.181	>	0.053 ± 0.099
Sensitivity	0.687	>	0.029
Positive Predictive Value	0.673	>	0.538
Total TP	167	>	7
Total TN	15972	<	16207
Total FP	109	>	25
Total FP CONTRA	24	>	0
Total FP INCONS	57	>	6
Total FP COMP	28	>	19
Total FN	76	<	236
P-value	6.91686328089e-09

Comparison of performance of HotKnots and PPfold(seed). Positive Predictive Value (PPV) is plotted against sensitivity. Each dot represents a single test of each method. See tables below for raw data (individual counts for HotKnots and PPfold(seed)).
Average Matthews Correlation Coefficients (MCC) with 95% confidence intervals (CIs) were plotted for different RNA families, for which at least 3 members were present in the benchmarking dataset. 'n' denotes the number of MCCs used to calculate the average and CI. See tables below for raw data (individual counts for HotKnots and PPfold(seed)).
Comparison of average Matthews Correlation Coefficients (MCCs) for HotKnots and PPfold(seed). The whiskers correspond to 95% confidence intervals (CIs). 'n' denotes the number of MCCs used to calculate average MCCs and CIs. See tables below for raw data (individual counts for HotKnots and PPfold(seed)).

Total Scores
MCC	0.675
Average MCC ± 95% Confidence Intervals	0.687 ± 0.181
Sensitivity	0.687
Positive Predictive Value	0.673
Nr of predictions	11

RNA Chain	Rfam family	MCC	SENS	PPV	TP	TN	FP	FP CONTRA	FP INCONS	FP COMP	FN
2LC8_A	GP_knot1 links to Rfam database...	0.64	0.61	0.69	11	512	5	0	5	0	7
3AMU_B	tRNA links to Rfam database...	0.81	0.79	0.83	15	1139	6	0	3	3	4
3J16_L	tRNA links to Rfam database...	0.31	0.33	0.30	7	1136	16	3	13	0	14
3RKF_A	Purine links to Rfam database...	0.91	0.83	1.00	20	846	0	0	0	0	4
3SD1_A	THF links to Rfam database...	0.77	0.76	0.79	22	1505	6	4	2	0	7
3UZL_B	tRNA links to Rfam database...	0.49	0.50	0.50	8	1277	15	0	8	7	8
4A1C_3	5S_rRNA links to Rfam database...	0.88	0.86	0.89	32	2727	7	0	4	3	5
4A1C_2	5_8S_rRNA links to Rfam database...	0.19	0.25	0.15	5	4483	42	12	16	14	15
4AOB_A	SAM links to Rfam database...	0.60	0.59	0.63	17	1410	11	4	6	1	12
4ENB_A	crcB links to Rfam database...	1.00	1.00	1.00	15	457	0	0	0	0	0
4ENC_A	crcB links to Rfam database...	0.97	1.00	0.94	15	480	1	1	0	0	0

Total Scores
MCC	0.122
Average MCC ± 95% Confidence Intervals	0.053 ± 0.099
Sensitivity	0.029
Positive Predictive Value	0.538
Nr of predictions	11

RNA Chain	Rfam family	MCC	SENS	PPV	TP	TN	FP	FP CONTRA	FP INCONS	FP COMP	FN
2LC8_A	GP_knot1 links to Rfam database...	0.49	0.33	0.75	6	520	2	0	2	0	12
3AMU_B	tRNA links to Rfam database...	0.00	0.00	0.00	0	1157	0	0	0	0	19
3J16_L	tRNA links to Rfam database...	0.00	0.00	0.00	0	1159	0	0	0	0	21
3RKF_A	Purine links to Rfam database...	0.00	0.00	0.00	0	866	0	0	0	0	24
3SD1_A	THF links to Rfam database...	0.00	0.00	0.00	0	1533	0	0	0	0	29
3UZL_B	tRNA links to Rfam database...	0.00	0.00	0.00	0	1293	0	0	0	0	16
4A1C_3	5S_rRNA links to Rfam database...	0.00	0.00	0.00	0	2763	0	0	0	0	37
4A1C_2	5_8S_rRNA links to Rfam database...	0.10	0.05	0.20	1	4511	23	0	4	19	19
4AOB_A	SAM links to Rfam database...	0.00	0.00	0.00	0	1437	0	0	0	0	29
4ENB_A	crcB links to Rfam database...	0.00	0.00	0.00	0	472	0	0	0	0	15
4ENC_A	crcB links to Rfam database...	0.00	0.00	0.00	0	496	0	0	0	0	15

Matthews Correlation Coeffient, Sensitivity and Positive Predictive Value have been calculated based on the paper by Gardener & Giegerich, 2004.