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Metric	RNAalifold(20)		MXScarna(20)
MCC	0.753	>	0.703
Average MCC ± 95% Confidence Intervals	0.747 ± 0.122	>	0.698 ± 0.114
Sensitivity	0.656	<	0.659
Positive Predictive Value	0.869	>	0.755
Total TP	298	<	299
Total TN	51920	>	51867
Total FP	66	<	147
Total FP CONTRA	18	<	49
Total FP INCONS	27	<	48
Total FP COMP	21	<	50
Total FN	156	>	155
P-value	3.27388928538e-08

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

Total Scores
MCC	0.753
Average MCC ± 95% Confidence Intervals	0.747 ± 0.122
Sensitivity	0.656
Positive Predictive Value	0.869
Nr of predictions	15

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
3IZ4_A	tmRNA links to Rfam database...	0.65	0.48	0.87	46	25483	15	4	3	8	49
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
3NPB_A	SAM links to Rfam database...	0.75	0.57	1.00	21	2257	4	0	0	4	16
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
4AOB_A	SAM links to Rfam database...	0.85	0.72	1.00	21	1416	2	0	0	2	8
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	0.703
Average MCC ± 95% Confidence Intervals	0.698 ± 0.114
Sensitivity	0.659
Positive Predictive Value	0.755
Nr of predictions	15

RNA Chain	Rfam family	MCC	SENS	PPV	TP	TN	FP	FP CONTRA	FP INCONS	FP COMP	FN
3A2K_C	tRNA links to Rfam database...	0.74	0.73	0.76	16	1087	6	1	4	1	6
3GX2_A	SAM links to Rfam database...	0.81	0.79	0.85	22	1423	6	2	2	2	6
3IVN_B	Purine links to Rfam database...	0.81	0.74	0.89	17	884	2	2	0	0	6
3IZ4_A	tmRNA links to Rfam database...	0.58	0.54	0.63	51	25455	35	18	12	5	44
3JYV_7	tRNA links to Rfam database...	0.95	0.90	1.00	18	1093	2	0	0	2	2
3LA5_A	Purine links to Rfam database...	0.87	0.80	0.95	20	933	1	1	0	0	5
3NPB_A	SAM links to Rfam database...	0.77	0.73	0.82	27	2245	9	2	4	3	10
3O58_3	5_8S_rRNA links to Rfam database...	0.62	0.59	0.65	13	4744	18	5	2	11	9
3PDR_A	ykoK links to Rfam database...	0.85	0.82	0.89	41	4794	9	2	3	4	9
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	6	2	1	7
4A1C_2	5_8S_rRNA links to Rfam database...	0.22	0.25	0.21	5	4492	36	8	11	17	15
4AOB_A	SAM links to Rfam database...	0.68	0.69	0.69	20	1408	13	2	7	4	9
4ENB_A	crcB links to Rfam database...	0.29	0.13	0.67	2	469	1	0	1	0	13
4ENC_A	crcB links to Rfam database...	0.68	0.47	1.00	7	489	0	0	0	0	8

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