CompaRNA - on-line benchmarks of RNA structure prediction methods

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Metric	RNAalifold(seed)		Carnac(20)
MCC	0.673	>	0.612
Average MCC ± 95% Confidence Intervals	0.677 ± 0.064	>	0.540 ± 0.152
Sensitivity	0.492	>	0.402
Positive Predictive Value	0.925	<	0.939
Total TP	245	>	200
Total TN	58946	<	58998
Total FP	37	>	24
Total FP CONTRA	12	>	6
Total FP INCONS	8	>	7
Total FP COMP	17	>	11
Total FN	253	<	298
P-value	2.69132796717e-08

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

Total Scores
MCC	0.673
Average MCC ± 95% Confidence Intervals	0.677 ± 0.064
Sensitivity	0.492
Positive Predictive Value	0.925
Nr of predictions	18

RNA Chain	Rfam family	MCC	SENS	PPV	TP	TN	FP	FP CONTRA	FP INCONS	FP COMP	FN
2KDQ_B	mir-TAR links to Rfam database...	0.54	0.30	1.00	3	171	0	0	0	0	7
2L94_A	HIV_FE links to Rfam database...	0.57	0.39	0.88	7	349	2	0	1	1	11
2XKV_B	Bacteria_small_SRP links to Rfam database...	0.80	0.64	1.00	7	1828	2	0	0	2	4
2XXA_G	Bacteria_small_SRP links to Rfam database...	0.50	0.26	1.00	9	2036	0	0	0	0	26
3GX2_A	SAM links to Rfam database...	0.88	0.79	1.00	22	1427	1	0	0	1	6
3IVN_B	Purine links to Rfam database...	0.71	0.65	0.79	15	884	4	2	2	0	8
3IZ4_A	tmRNA links to Rfam database...	0.46	0.26	0.81	25	25505	8	6	0	2	70
3JYX_4	5_8S_rRNA links to Rfam database...	0.76	0.58	1.00	7	4749	2	0	0	2	5
3LA5_A	Purine links to Rfam database...	0.73	0.64	0.84	16	935	3	1	2	0	9
3NPB_A	SAM links to Rfam database...	0.77	0.59	1.00	22	2256	3	0	0	3	15
3O58_3	5_8S_rRNA links to Rfam database...	0.60	0.36	1.00	8	4756	1	0	0	1	14
3PDR_A	ykoK links to Rfam database...	0.81	0.66	1.00	33	4807	1	0	0	1	17
3RKF_A	Purine links to Rfam database...	0.74	0.67	0.84	16	847	3	1	2	0	8
3SD1_A	THF links to Rfam database...	0.70	0.59	0.85	17	1513	3	2	1	0	12
4A1C_2	5_8S_rRNA links to Rfam database...	0.50	0.25	1.00	5	4511	2	0	0	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...	0.63	0.40	1.00	6	466	0	0	0	0	9
4ENC_A	crcB links to Rfam database...	0.63	0.40	1.00	6	490	0	0	0	0	9

Total Scores
MCC	0.612
Average MCC ± 95% Confidence Intervals	0.540 ± 0.152
Sensitivity	0.402
Positive Predictive Value	0.939
Nr of predictions	18

RNA Chain	Rfam family	MCC	SENS	PPV	TP	TN	FP	FP CONTRA	FP INCONS	FP COMP	FN
2KDQ_B	mir-TAR links to Rfam database...	0.77	0.60	1.00	6	168	0	0	0	0	4
2L94_A	HIV_FE links to Rfam database...	0.00	0.00	0.00	0	357	0	0	0	0	18
2XKV_B	Bacteria_small_SRP links to Rfam database...	0.43	0.18	1.00	2	1833	1	0	0	1	9
2XXA_G	Bacteria_small_SRP links to Rfam database...	0.29	0.09	1.00	3	2042	0	0	0	0	32
3GX2_A	SAM links to Rfam database...	0.68	0.46	1.00	13	1436	0	0	0	0	15
3IVN_B	Purine links to Rfam database...	0.91	0.83	1.00	19	884	0	0	0	0	4
3IZ4_A	tmRNA links to Rfam database...	0.52	0.31	0.88	29	25503	4	3	1	0	66
3JYX_4	5_8S_rRNA links to Rfam database...	0.76	0.58	1.00	7	4749	2	0	0	2	5
3LA5_A	Purine links to Rfam database...	0.91	0.84	1.00	21	933	0	0	0	0	4
3NPB_A	SAM links to Rfam database...	0.46	0.22	1.00	8	2270	3	0	0	3	29
3O58_3	5_8S_rRNA links to Rfam database...	0.60	0.36	1.00	8	4756	1	0	0	1	14
3PDR_A	ykoK links to Rfam database...	0.75	0.58	0.97	29	4810	3	1	0	2	21
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...	0.72	0.55	0.94	16	1516	1	0	1	0	13
4A1C_2	5_8S_rRNA links to Rfam database...	0.42	0.25	0.71	5	4509	3	0	2	1	15
4AOB_A	SAM links to Rfam database...	0.59	0.48	0.74	14	1418	6	2	3	1	15
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.