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Metric	Carnac(20)		Pknots
MCC	0.695	>	0.670
Average MCC ± 95% Confidence Intervals	0.617 ± 0.177	<	0.705 ± 0.160
Sensitivity	0.513	<	0.691
Positive Predictive Value	0.948	>	0.658
Total TP	184	<	248
Total TN	26533	>	26350
Total FP	20	<	165
Total FP CONTRA	3	<	43
Total FP INCONS	7	<	86
Total FP COMP	10	<	36
Total FN	175	>	111
P-value	3.16482497632e-07

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

Total Scores
MCC	0.695
Average MCC ± 95% Confidence Intervals	0.617 ± 0.177
Sensitivity	0.513
Positive Predictive Value	0.948
Nr of predictions	14

RNA Chain	Rfam family	MCC	SENS	PPV	TP	TN	FP	FP CONTRA	FP INCONS	FP COMP	FN
3A2K_C	tRNA links to Rfam database...	0.88	0.77	1.00	17	1091	0	0	0	0	5
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
3JYV_7	tRNA links to Rfam database...	0.81	0.70	0.93	14	1096	3	0	1	2	6
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

Total Scores
MCC	0.670
Average MCC ± 95% Confidence Intervals	0.705 ± 0.160
Sensitivity	0.691
Positive Predictive Value	0.658
Nr of predictions	14

RNA Chain	Rfam family	MCC	SENS	PPV	TP	TN	FP	FP CONTRA	FP INCONS	FP COMP	FN
3A2K_C	tRNA links to Rfam database...	0.50	0.55	0.48	12	1083	13	3	10	0	10
3GX2_A	SAM links to Rfam database...	0.55	0.57	0.55	16	1420	14	4	9	1	12
3IVN_B	Purine links to Rfam database...	0.91	0.87	0.95	20	882	1	0	1	0	3
3JYV_7	tRNA links to Rfam database...	0.97	0.95	1.00	19	1092	2	0	0	2	1
3LA5_A	Purine links to Rfam database...	0.94	0.88	1.00	22	932	0	0	0	0	3
3NPB_A	SAM links to Rfam database...	0.84	0.81	0.88	30	2244	9	0	4	5	7
3O58_3	5_8S_rRNA links to Rfam database...	0.32	0.45	0.24	10	4722	39	18	14	7	12
3PDR_A	ykoK links to Rfam database...	0.64	0.64	0.65	32	4791	19	4	13	2	18
3RKF_A	Purine links to Rfam database...	0.91	0.88	0.95	21	844	1	0	1	0	3
3SD1_A	THF links to Rfam database...	0.78	0.76	0.81	22	1506	5	1	4	0	7
4A1C_2	5_8S_rRNA links to Rfam database...	0.33	0.40	0.29	8	4488	36	9	11	16	12
4AOB_A	SAM links to Rfam database...	0.19	0.21	0.21	6	1409	23	3	19	1	23
4ENB_A	crcB links to Rfam database...	1.00	1.00	1.00	15	457	2	0	0	2	0
4ENC_A	crcB links to Rfam database...	0.97	1.00	0.94	15	480	1	1	0	0	0

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