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Metric	CentroidAlifold(seed)		Pknots
MCC	0.787	>	0.710
Average MCC ± 95% Confidence Intervals	0.719 ± 0.124	<	0.742 ± 0.136
Sensitivity	0.641	<	0.727
Positive Predictive Value	0.972	>	0.701
Total TP	275	<	312
Total TN	29456	>	29294
Total FP	21	<	169
Total FP CONTRA	5	<	46
Total FP INCONS	3	<	87
Total FP COMP	13	<	36
Total FN	154	>	117
P-value	3.05041766982e-08

Comparison of performance of CentroidAlifold(seed) 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 CentroidAlifold(seed) 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 CentroidAlifold(seed) and Pknots).
Comparison of average Matthews Correlation Coefficients (MCCs) for CentroidAlifold(seed) 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 CentroidAlifold(seed) and Pknots).

Total Scores
MCC	0.787
Average MCC ± 95% Confidence Intervals	0.719 ± 0.124
Sensitivity	0.641
Positive Predictive Value	0.972
Nr of predictions	17

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...	0.00	0.00	0.00	0	528	0	0	0	0	18
2ZZN_D	tRNA links to Rfam database...	0.52	0.27	1.00	6	978	0	0	0	0	16
3A2K_C	tRNA links to Rfam database...	0.52	0.27	1.00	6	1102	0	0	0	0	16
3A3A_A	tRNA-Sec links to Rfam database...	0.95	0.90	1.00	27	1473	0	0	0	0	3
3GX2_A	SAM links to Rfam database...	0.92	0.86	1.00	24	1425	1	0	0	1	4
3IVN_B	Purine links to Rfam database...	0.86	0.83	0.90	19	882	2	2	0	0	4
3JYV_7	tRNA links to Rfam database...	0.50	0.25	1.00	5	1106	1	0	0	1	15
3LA5_A	Purine links to Rfam database...	0.87	0.80	0.95	20	933	1	1	0	0	5
3NPB_A	SAM links to Rfam database...	0.79	0.65	0.96	24	2253	5	0	1	4	13
3O58_3	5_8S_rRNA links to Rfam database...	0.68	0.50	0.92	11	4752	2	1	0	1	11
3PDR_A	ykoK links to Rfam database...	0.93	0.88	0.98	44	4795	3	0	1	2	6
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...	0.85	0.76	0.96	22	1510	1	0	1	0	7
4A1C_2	5_8S_rRNA links to Rfam database...	0.60	0.40	0.89	8	4507	3	1	0	2	12
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...	0.72	0.53	1.00	8	464	0	0	0	0	7
4ENC_A	crcB links to Rfam database...	0.73	0.53	1.00	8	488	0	0	0	0	7

Total Scores
MCC	0.710
Average MCC ± 95% Confidence Intervals	0.742 ± 0.136
Sensitivity	0.727
Positive Predictive Value	0.701
Nr of predictions	17

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...	0.83	0.83	0.83	15	510	3	2	1	0	3
2ZZN_D	tRNA links to Rfam database...	0.95	0.95	0.95	21	962	1	1	0	0	1
3A2K_C	tRNA links to Rfam database...	0.50	0.55	0.48	12	1083	13	3	10	0	10
3A3A_A	tRNA-Sec links to Rfam database...	0.97	0.93	1.00	28	1472	0	0	0	0	2
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.