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Metric	RNAalifold(20)		ProbKnot
MCC	0.741	>	0.686
Average MCC ± 95% Confidence Intervals	0.716 ± 0.113	>	0.701 ± 0.122
Sensitivity	0.639	<	0.713
Positive Predictive Value	0.863	>	0.665
Total TP	347	<	387
Total TN	61016	>	60836
Total FP	90	<	280
Total FP CONTRA	17	<	59
Total FP INCONS	38	<	136
Total FP COMP	35	<	85
Total FN	196	>	156
P-value	3.30280588002e-08

Comparison of performance of RNAalifold(20) and ProbKnot. 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 RNAalifold(20) and ProbKnot).
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 RNAalifold(20) and ProbKnot).
Comparison of average Matthews Correlation Coefficients (MCCs) for RNAalifold(20) and ProbKnot. 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 RNAalifold(20) and ProbKnot).

Total Scores
MCC	0.741
Average MCC ± 95% Confidence Intervals	0.716 ± 0.113
Sensitivity	0.639
Positive Predictive Value	0.863
Nr of predictions	18

RNA Chain	Rfam family	MCC	SENS	PPV	TP	TN	FP	FP CONTRA	FP INCONS	FP COMP	FN
2L94_A	HIV_FE links to Rfam database...	0.51	0.50	0.56	9	341	8	0	7	1	9
2XKV_B	Bacteria_small_SRP links to Rfam database...	0.60	0.36	1.00	4	1831	3	0	0	3	7
2XQD_Y	tRNA links to Rfam database...	0.98	0.95	1.00	20	1109	1	0	0	1	1
2XXA_G	Bacteria_small_SRP links to Rfam database...	0.44	0.20	1.00	7	2038	0	0	0	0	28
3AMU_B	tRNA links to Rfam database...	1.00	1.00	1.00	19	1138	2	0	0	2	0
3IZ4_A	tmRNA links to Rfam database...	0.65	0.48	0.87	46	25483	15	4	3	8	49
3IZF_C	5S_rRNA links to Rfam database...	0.90	0.89	0.91	31	2606	6	0	3	3	4
3NPB_A	SAM links to Rfam database...	0.75	0.57	1.00	21	2257	4	0	0	4	16
3O58_3	5_8S_rRNA links to Rfam database...	0.42	0.36	0.50	8	4748	9	3	5	1	14
3O58_2	5S_rRNA links to Rfam database...	0.97	0.94	1.00	29	2725	7	0	0	7	2
3PDR_A	ykoK links to Rfam database...	0.92	0.88	0.96	44	4794	3	1	1	1	6
3RKF_A	Purine links to Rfam database...	0.81	0.71	0.94	17	848	1	0	1	0	7
3SD1_A	THF links to Rfam database...	0.84	0.86	0.83	25	1503	5	4	1	0	4
4A1C_3	5S_rRNA links to Rfam database...	0.90	0.84	0.97	31	2731	1	0	1	0	6
4A1C_2	5_8S_rRNA links to Rfam database...	0.22	0.25	0.19	5	4490	23	5	16	2	15
4AOB_A	SAM links to Rfam database...	0.85	0.72	1.00	21	1416	2	0	0	2	8
4ENB_A	crcB links to Rfam database...	0.51	0.27	1.00	4	468	0	0	0	0	11
4ENC_A	crcB links to Rfam database...	0.63	0.40	1.00	6	490	0	0	0	0	9

Total Scores
MCC	0.686
Average MCC ± 95% Confidence Intervals	0.701 ± 0.122
Sensitivity	0.713
Positive Predictive Value	0.665
Nr of predictions	18

RNA Chain	Rfam family	MCC	SENS	PPV	TP	TN	FP	FP CONTRA	FP INCONS	FP COMP	FN
2L94_A	HIV_FE links to Rfam database...	1.00	1.00	1.00	18	339	1	0	0	1	0
2XKV_B	Bacteria_small_SRP links to Rfam database...	0.64	0.73	0.57	8	1821	26	0	6	20	3
2XQD_Y	tRNA links to Rfam database...	1.00	1.00	1.00	21	1108	2	0	0	2	0
2XXA_G	Bacteria_small_SRP links to Rfam database...	0.25	0.26	0.26	9	2011	26	1	24	1	26
3AMU_B	tRNA links to Rfam database...	0.77	0.79	0.75	15	1137	9	0	5	4	4
3IZ4_A	tmRNA links to Rfam database...	0.59	0.61	0.57	58	25435	49	17	26	6	37
3IZF_C	5S_rRNA links to Rfam database...	0.90	0.91	0.89	32	2604	7	0	4	3	3
3NPB_A	SAM links to Rfam database...	0.79	0.73	0.87	27	2247	9	0	4	5	10
3O58_3	5_8S_rRNA links to Rfam database...	0.38	0.50	0.29	11	4726	42	10	17	15	11
3O58_2	5S_rRNA links to Rfam database...	0.91	0.94	0.88	29	2721	10	0	4	6	2
3PDR_A	ykoK links to Rfam database...	0.88	0.92	0.85	46	4786	10	5	3	2	4
3RKF_A	Purine links to Rfam database...	0.87	0.83	0.91	20	844	2	2	0	0	4
3SD1_A	THF links to Rfam database...	0.66	0.69	0.65	20	1502	11	6	5	0	9
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...	0.17	0.25	0.13	5	4477	49	13	21	15	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...	0.81	0.73	0.92	11	460	1	1	0	0	4
4ENC_A	crcB links to Rfam database...	0.52	0.53	0.53	8	481	8	0	7	1	7

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