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Metric	CentroidAlifold(20)		Fold
MCC	0.758	>	0.621
Average MCC ± 95% Confidence Intervals	0.738 ± 0.123	>	0.579 ± 0.179
Sensitivity	0.631	<	0.637
Positive Predictive Value	0.914	>	0.611
Total TP	212	<	214
Total TN	46506	>	46388
Total FP	33	<	182
Total FP CONTRA	13	<	45
Total FP INCONS	7	<	91
Total FP COMP	13	<	46
Total FN	124	>	122
P-value	8.09700314043e-09

Comparison of performance of CentroidAlifold(20) and Fold. 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 CentroidAlifold(20) and Fold).
Comparison of average Matthews Correlation Coefficients (MCCs) for CentroidAlifold(20) and Fold. 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 CentroidAlifold(20) and Fold).

Total Scores
MCC	0.758
Average MCC ± 95% Confidence Intervals	0.738 ± 0.123
Sensitivity	0.631
Positive Predictive Value	0.914
Nr of predictions	10

RNA Chain	Rfam family	MCC	SENS	PPV	TP	TN	FP	FP CONTRA	FP INCONS	FP COMP	FN
3IZ4_A	tmRNA links to Rfam database...	0.67	0.52	0.88	49	25480	9	7	0	2	46
3NPB_A	SAM links to Rfam database...	0.77	0.65	0.92	24	2252	6	1	1	4	13
3O58_3	5_8S_rRNA links to Rfam database...	0.64	0.45	0.91	10	4753	2	1	0	1	12
3PDR_A	ykoK links to Rfam database...	0.92	0.90	0.94	45	4792	5	1	2	2	5
3RKF_A	Purine links to Rfam database...	0.86	0.75	1.00	18	848	0	0	0	0	6
3SD1_A	THF links to Rfam database...	0.85	0.76	0.96	22	1510	1	0	1	0	7
4A1C_2	5_8S_rRNA links to Rfam database...	0.33	0.25	0.45	5	4505	8	3	3	2	15
4AOB_A	SAM links to Rfam database...	0.89	0.79	1.00	23	1414	2	0	0	2	6
4ENB_A	crcB links to Rfam database...	0.77	0.60	1.00	9	463	0	0	0	0	6
4ENC_A	crcB links to Rfam database...	0.68	0.47	1.00	7	489	0	0	0	0	8

Total Scores
MCC	0.621
Average MCC ± 95% Confidence Intervals	0.579 ± 0.179
Sensitivity	0.637
Positive Predictive Value	0.611
Nr of predictions	10

RNA Chain	Rfam family	MCC	SENS	PPV	TP	TN	FP	FP CONTRA	FP INCONS	FP COMP	FN
3IZ4_A	tmRNA links to Rfam database...	0.60	0.61	0.59	58	25437	47	16	25	6	37
3NPB_A	SAM links to Rfam database...	0.77	0.73	0.82	27	2245	11	0	6	5	10
3O58_3	5_8S_rRNA links to Rfam database...	0.39	0.50	0.31	11	4728	41	9	16	16	11
3PDR_A	ykoK links to Rfam database...	0.93	0.92	0.94	46	4791	5	1	2	2	4
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...	0.68	0.69	0.69	20	1504	9	4	5	0	9
4A1C_2	5_8S_rRNA links to Rfam database...	0.19	0.25	0.15	5	4482	43	11	18	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...	0.37	0.33	0.45	5	461	7	0	6	1	10
4ENC_A	crcB links to Rfam database...	0.36	0.33	0.42	5	484	8	0	7	1	10

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