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Metric	MaxExpect		Alterna
MCC	0.711	>	0.584
Average MCC ± 95% Confidence Intervals	0.667 ± 0.186	>	0.553 ± 0.176
Sensitivity	0.689	>	0.582
Positive Predictive Value	0.745	>	0.604
Total TP	193	>	163
Total TN	12630	>	12619
Total FP	70	<	110
Total FP CONTRA	18	<	26
Total FP INCONS	48	<	81
Total FP COMP	4	>	3
Total FN	87	<	117
P-value	1.91441904741e-08

Comparison of performance of MaxExpect and Alterna. 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 MaxExpect and Alterna).
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 MaxExpect and Alterna).
Comparison of average Matthews Correlation Coefficients (MCCs) for MaxExpect and Alterna. 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 MaxExpect and Alterna).

Total Scores
MCC	0.711
Average MCC ± 95% Confidence Intervals	0.667 ± 0.186
Sensitivity	0.689
Positive Predictive Value	0.745
Nr of predictions	12

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	513	15	3	12	0	18
3A2K_C	tRNA links to Rfam database...	0.47	0.50	0.46	11	1084	13	3	10	0	11
3ADB_C	-	0.86	0.85	0.88	28	1787	4	0	4	0	5
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
3IWN_A	c-di-GMP-I links to Rfam database...	0.80	0.79	0.81	22	1445	6	1	4	1	6
3J0L_a	-	0.39	0.36	0.44	4	402	6	4	1	1	7
3JYV_7	tRNA links to Rfam database...	0.48	0.45	0.53	9	1094	9	3	5	1	11
3LA5_A	Purine links to Rfam database...	0.91	0.84	1.00	21	933	0	0	0	0	4
3NKB_B	-	0.69	0.74	0.67	14	714	7	0	7	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...	0.70	0.69	0.71	20	1505	8	3	5	0	9

Total Scores
MCC	0.584
Average MCC ± 95% Confidence Intervals	0.553 ± 0.176
Sensitivity	0.582
Positive Predictive Value	0.604
Nr of predictions	12

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	0.44	0.53	8	513	7	0	7	0	10
3A2K_C	tRNA links to Rfam database...	0.49	0.55	0.46	12	1082	14	3	11	0	10
3ADB_C	-	0.63	0.64	0.64	21	1786	12	1	11	0	12
3GX2_A	SAM links to Rfam database...	0.56	0.57	0.57	16	1421	13	4	8	1	12
3IVN_B	Purine links to Rfam database...	0.81	0.78	0.86	18	882	3	2	1	0	5
3IWN_A	c-di-GMP-I links to Rfam database...	0.81	0.79	0.85	22	1446	5	1	3	1	6
3J0L_a	-	0.18	0.18	0.22	2	402	8	3	4	1	9
3JYV_7	tRNA links to Rfam database...	-0.02	0.00	0.00	0	1089	22	4	18	0	20
3LA5_A	Purine links to Rfam database...	0.91	0.84	1.00	21	933	0	0	0	0	4
3NKB_B	-	0.41	0.42	0.42	8	716	11	3	8	0	11
3RKF_A	Purine links to Rfam database...	0.82	0.79	0.86	19	844	3	1	2	0	5
3SD1_A	THF links to Rfam database...	0.55	0.55	0.57	16	1505	12	4	8	0	13

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