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Metric	CentroidAlifold(seed)		RDfolder
MCC	0.780	>	0.600
Average MCC ± 95% Confidence Intervals	0.710 ± 0.162	>	0.577 ± 0.209
Sensitivity	0.627	>	0.543
Positive Predictive Value	0.979	>	0.679
Total TP	188	>	163
Total TN	13149	>	13101
Total FP	8	<	79
Total FP CONTRA	3	<	15
Total FP INCONS	1	<	62
Total FP COMP	4	>	2
Total FN	112	<	137
P-value	1.19192530585e-08

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

Total Scores
MCC	0.780
Average MCC ± 95% Confidence Intervals	0.710 ± 0.162
Sensitivity	0.627
Positive Predictive Value	0.979
Nr of predictions	13

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
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
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	0.600
Average MCC ± 95% Confidence Intervals	0.577 ± 0.209
Sensitivity	0.543
Positive Predictive Value	0.679
Nr of predictions	13

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...	-0.03	0.00	0.00	0	514	14	3	11	0	18
2ZZN_D	tRNA links to Rfam database...	0.93	0.95	0.91	21	961	2	2	0	0	1
3A2K_C	tRNA links to Rfam database...	0.98	0.95	1.00	21	1087	0	0	0	0	1
3A3A_A	tRNA-Sec links to Rfam database...	0.59	0.50	0.71	15	1479	6	0	6	0	15
3GX2_A	SAM links to Rfam database...	0.60	0.57	0.64	16	1424	10	2	7	1	12
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...	-0.02	0.00	0.00	0	1091	20	4	16	0	20
3LA5_A	Purine links to Rfam database...	0.91	0.84	1.00	21	933	0	0	0	0	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...	0.35	0.24	0.54	7	1520	6	1	5	0	22
4AOB_A	SAM links to Rfam database...	0.42	0.38	0.48	11	1414	13	3	9	1	18
4ENB_A	crcB links to Rfam database...	0.48	0.40	0.60	6	462	4	0	4	0	9
4ENC_A	crcB links to Rfam database...	0.48	0.40	0.60	6	486	4	0	4	0	9

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