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Metric	RNAalifold(20)		MCFold
MCC	0.776	>	0.506
Average MCC ± 95% Confidence Intervals	0.746 ± 0.156	>	0.492 ± 0.144
Sensitivity	0.717	>	0.546
Positive Predictive Value	0.847	>	0.482
Total TP	210	>	160
Total TN	22764	>	22680
Total FP	45	<	208
Total FP CONTRA	14	<	51
Total FP INCONS	24	<	121
Total FP COMP	7	<	36
Total FN	83	<	133
P-value	1.59816551561e-08

Comparison of performance of RNAalifold(20) and MCFold. 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 RNAalifold(20) and MCFold).
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 RNAalifold(20) and MCFold).
Comparison of average Matthews Correlation Coefficients (MCCs) for RNAalifold(20) and MCFold. 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 RNAalifold(20) and MCFold).

Total Scores
MCC	0.776
Average MCC ± 95% Confidence Intervals	0.746 ± 0.156
Sensitivity	0.717
Positive Predictive Value	0.847
Nr of predictions	12

RNA Chain	Rfam family	MCC	SENS	PPV	TP	TN	FP	FP CONTRA	FP INCONS	FP COMP	FN
3A2K_C	tRNA links to Rfam database...	0.98	0.95	1.00	21	1087	0	0	0	0	1
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	0.78	0.95	18	884	1	1	0	0	5
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...	0.87	0.76	1.00	19	935	0	0	0	0	6
3O58_3	5_8S_rRNA links to Rfam database...	0.42	0.36	0.50	8	4748	9	3	5	1	14
3PDR_A	ykoK links to Rfam database...	0.92	0.88	0.96	44	4794	3	1	1	1	6
3RKF_A	Purine links to Rfam database...	0.81	0.71	0.94	17	848	1	0	1	0	7
3SD1_A	THF links to Rfam database...	0.84	0.86	0.83	25	1503	5	4	1	0	4
4A1C_2	5_8S_rRNA links to Rfam database...	0.22	0.25	0.19	5	4490	23	5	16	2	15
4ENB_A	crcB links to Rfam database...	0.51	0.27	1.00	4	468	0	0	0	0	11
4ENC_A	crcB links to Rfam database...	0.63	0.40	1.00	6	490	0	0	0	0	9

Total Scores
MCC	0.506
Average MCC ± 95% Confidence Intervals	0.492 ± 0.144
Sensitivity	0.546
Positive Predictive Value	0.482
Nr of predictions	12

RNA Chain	Rfam family	MCC	SENS	PPV	TP	TN	FP	FP CONTRA	FP INCONS	FP COMP	FN
3A2K_C	tRNA links to Rfam database...	0.49	0.55	0.46	12	1082	14	3	11	0	10
3GX2_A	SAM links to Rfam database...	0.58	0.61	0.57	17	1419	15	1	12	2	11
3IVN_B	Purine links to Rfam database...	0.45	0.48	0.46	11	879	14	5	8	1	12
3JYV_7	tRNA links to Rfam database...	0.25	0.30	0.24	6	1086	20	8	11	1	14
3LA5_A	Purine links to Rfam database...	0.44	0.44	0.48	11	931	12	2	10	0	14
3O58_3	5_8S_rRNA links to Rfam database...	0.28	0.36	0.22	8	4727	39	14	15	10	14
3PDR_A	ykoK links to Rfam database...	0.78	0.80	0.77	40	4788	14	5	7	2	10
3RKF_A	Purine links to Rfam database...	0.89	0.88	0.91	21	843	3	0	2	1	3
3SD1_A	THF links to Rfam database...	0.43	0.45	0.43	13	1503	17	1	16	0	16
4A1C_2	5_8S_rRNA links to Rfam database...	0.18	0.25	0.14	5	4480	45	12	19	14	15
4ENB_A	crcB links to Rfam database...	0.78	0.73	0.85	11	459	4	0	2	2	4
4ENC_A	crcB links to Rfam database...	0.34	0.33	0.38	5	483	11	0	8	3	10

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