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Metric	MXScarna(seed)		Carnac(seed)
MCC	0.709	>	0.104
Average MCC ± 95% Confidence Intervals	0.650 ± 0.141	>	0.033 ± 0.072
Sensitivity	0.652	>	0.011
Positive Predictive Value	0.778	<	1.000
Total TP	238	>	4
Total TN	26230	<	26532
Total FP	111	>	0
Total FP CONTRA	27	>	0
Total FP INCONS	41	>	0
Total FP COMP	43	>	0
Total FN	127	<	361
P-value	2.1413769576e-08

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

Total Scores
MCC	0.709
Average MCC ± 95% Confidence Intervals	0.650 ± 0.141
Sensitivity	0.652
Positive Predictive Value	0.778
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...	-0.03	0.00	0.00	0	518	12	0	10	2	18
3A3A_A	tRNA-Sec links to Rfam database...	0.84	0.77	0.92	23	1475	4	0	2	2	7
3GX2_A	SAM links to Rfam database...	0.83	0.82	0.85	23	1422	7	2	2	3	5
3IVN_B	Purine links to Rfam database...	0.69	0.57	0.87	13	888	2	2	0	0	10
3LA5_A	Purine links to Rfam database...	0.82	0.72	0.95	18	935	1	1	0	0	7
3NPB_A	SAM links to Rfam database...	0.76	0.70	0.84	26	2247	10	2	3	5	11
3O58_3	5_8S_rRNA links to Rfam database...	0.54	0.50	0.58	11	4745	20	5	3	12	11
3PDR_A	ykoK links to Rfam database...	0.87	0.88	0.86	44	4789	10	4	3	3	6
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...	0.74	0.76	0.73	22	1503	9	4	4	1	7
4A1C_2	5_8S_rRNA links to Rfam database...	0.45	0.40	0.50	8	4500	20	4	4	12	12
4AOB_A	SAM links to Rfam database...	0.71	0.69	0.74	20	1410	10	2	5	3	9
4ENB_A	crcB links to Rfam database...	0.54	0.40	0.75	6	464	2	0	2	0	9
4ENC_A	crcB links to Rfam database...	0.48	0.40	0.60	6	486	4	1	3	0	9

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.