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Metric	Contrafold		Carnac(seed)
MCC	0.735	>	0.104
Average MCC ± 95% Confidence Intervals	0.727 ± 0.142	>	0.033 ± 0.072
Sensitivity	0.723	>	0.011
Positive Predictive Value	0.754	<	1.000
Total TP	264	>	4
Total TN	26186	<	26532
Total FP	109	>	0
Total FP CONTRA	36	>	0
Total FP INCONS	50	>	0
Total FP COMP	23	>	0
Total FN	101	<	361
P-value	2.78993384543e-08

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

Total Scores
MCC	0.735
Average MCC ± 95% Confidence Intervals	0.727 ± 0.142
Sensitivity	0.723
Positive Predictive Value	0.754
Nr of predictions	14

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...	0.46	0.39	0.58	7	516	5	3	2	0	11
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...	0.93	0.89	0.96	25	1423	2	1	0	1	3
3IVN_B	Purine links to Rfam database...	0.91	0.83	1.00	19	884	0	0	0	0	4
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...	0.86	0.84	0.89	31	2243	9	1	3	5	6
3O58_3	5_8S_rRNA links to Rfam database...	0.32	0.36	0.29	8	4736	21	7	13	1	14
3PDR_A	ykoK links to Rfam database...	0.83	0.86	0.80	43	4786	13	5	6	2	7
3RKF_A	Purine links to Rfam database...	0.87	0.83	0.91	20	844	2	2	0	0	4
3SD1_A	THF links to Rfam database...	0.68	0.69	0.69	20	1504	9	5	4	0	9
4A1C_2	5_8S_rRNA links to Rfam database...	0.21	0.25	0.19	5	4489	33	9	13	11	15
4AOB_A	SAM links to Rfam database...	0.53	0.52	0.56	15	1410	13	3	9	1	14
4ENB_A	crcB links to Rfam database...	0.85	0.73	1.00	11	461	1	0	0	1	4
4ENC_A	crcB links to Rfam database...	0.85	0.73	1.00	11	485	1	0	0	1	4

Total Scores
MCC	0.104
Average MCC ± 95% Confidence Intervals	0.033 ± 0.072
Sensitivity	0.011
Positive Predictive Value	1.000
Nr of predictions	14

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...	0.47	0.22	1.00	4	524	0	0	0	0	14
3A3A_A	tRNA-Sec links to Rfam database...	0.00	0.00	0.00	0	1500	0	0	0	0	30
3GX2_A	SAM links to Rfam database...	0.00	0.00	0.00	0	1449	0	0	0	0	28
3IVN_B	Purine links to Rfam database...	0.00	0.00	0.00	0	903	0	0	0	0	23
3LA5_A	Purine links to Rfam database...	0.00	0.00	0.00	0	954	0	0	0	0	25
3NPB_A	SAM links to Rfam database...	0.00	0.00	0.00	0	2278	0	0	0	0	37
3O58_3	5_8S_rRNA links to Rfam database...	0.00	0.00	0.00	0	4764	0	0	0	0	22
3PDR_A	ykoK links to Rfam database...	0.00	0.00	0.00	0	4840	0	0	0	0	50
3RKF_A	Purine links to Rfam database...	0.00	0.00	0.00	0	866	0	0	0	0	24
3SD1_A	THF links to Rfam database...	0.00	0.00	0.00	0	1533	0	0	0	0	29
4A1C_2	5_8S_rRNA links to Rfam database...	0.00	0.00	0.00	0	4516	0	0	0	0	20
4AOB_A	SAM links to Rfam database...	0.00	0.00	0.00	0	1437	0	0	0	0	29
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.