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Metric	Pknots		RSpredict(20)
MCC	0.670	>	0.625
Average MCC ± 95% Confidence Intervals	0.705 ± 0.160	>	0.612 ± 0.179
Sensitivity	0.691	>	0.557
Positive Predictive Value	0.658	<	0.712
Total TP	248	>	200
Total TN	26350	<	26446
Total FP	165	>	95
Total FP CONTRA	43	>	38
Total FP INCONS	86	>	43
Total FP COMP	36	>	14
Total FN	111	<	159
P-value	1.74172190343e-08

Comparison of performance of Pknots and RSpredict(20). 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 Pknots and RSpredict(20)).
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 Pknots and RSpredict(20)).
Comparison of average Matthews Correlation Coefficients (MCCs) for Pknots and RSpredict(20). 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 Pknots and RSpredict(20)).

Total Scores
MCC	0.670
Average MCC ± 95% Confidence Intervals	0.705 ± 0.160
Sensitivity	0.691
Positive Predictive Value	0.658
Nr of predictions	14

RNA Chain	Rfam family	MCC	SENS	PPV	TP	TN	FP	FP CONTRA	FP INCONS	FP COMP	FN
3A2K_C	tRNA links to Rfam database...	0.50	0.55	0.48	12	1083	13	3	10	0	10
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

Total Scores
MCC	0.625
Average MCC ± 95% Confidence Intervals	0.612 ± 0.179
Sensitivity	0.557
Positive Predictive Value	0.712
Nr of predictions	14

RNA Chain	Rfam family	MCC	SENS	PPV	TP	TN	FP	FP CONTRA	FP INCONS	FP COMP	FN
3A2K_C	tRNA links to Rfam database...	0.88	0.86	0.90	19	1087	2	0	2	0	3
3GX2_A	SAM links to Rfam database...	0.40	0.21	0.75	6	1441	2	1	1	0	22
3IVN_B	Purine links to Rfam database...	0.91	0.87	0.95	20	882	1	1	0	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...	0.89	0.80	1.00	20	934	0	0	0	0	5
3NPB_A	SAM links to Rfam database...	-0.01	0.00	0.00	0	2272	6	1	5	0	37
3O58_3	5_8S_rRNA links to Rfam database...	0.38	0.50	0.30	11	4727	29	15	11	3	11
3PDR_A	ykoK links to Rfam database...	0.80	0.70	0.92	35	4802	5	1	2	2	15
3RKF_A	Purine links to Rfam database...	0.91	0.88	0.95	21	844	1	1	0	0	3
3SD1_A	THF links to Rfam database...	0.82	0.86	0.78	25	1501	7	5	2	0	4
4A1C_2	5_8S_rRNA links to Rfam database...	0.25	0.30	0.21	6	4487	30	12	11	7	14
4AOB_A	SAM links to Rfam database...	0.33	0.21	0.55	6	1426	5	1	4	0	23
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...	0.51	0.40	0.67	6	487	3	0	3	0	9

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