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Metric	RNAalifold(20)		Murlet(seed)
MCC	0.750	>	0.607
Average MCC ± 95% Confidence Intervals	0.717 ± 0.143	>	0.613 ± 0.037
Sensitivity	0.669	>	0.407
Positive Predictive Value	0.848	<	0.915
Total TP	212	>	129
Total TN	24258	<	24367
Total FP	49	>	17
Total FP CONTRA	14	>	4
Total FP INCONS	24	>	8
Total FP COMP	11	>	5
Total FN	105	<	188
P-value	1.87872347734e-08

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

Total Scores
MCC	0.750
Average MCC ± 95% Confidence Intervals	0.717 ± 0.143
Sensitivity	0.669
Positive Predictive Value	0.848
Nr of predictions	12

RNA Chain	Rfam family	MCC	SENS	PPV	TP	TN	FP	FP CONTRA	FP INCONS	FP COMP	FN
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
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	0.607
Average MCC ± 95% Confidence Intervals	0.613 ± 0.037
Sensitivity	0.407
Positive Predictive Value	0.915
Nr of predictions	12

RNA Chain	Rfam family	MCC	SENS	PPV	TP	TN	FP	FP CONTRA	FP INCONS	FP COMP	FN
3GX2_A	SAM links to Rfam database...	0.70	0.50	1.00	14	1435	1	0	0	1	14
3IVN_B	Purine links to Rfam database...	0.62	0.52	0.75	12	887	4	2	2	0	11
3LA5_A	Purine links to Rfam database...	0.67	0.56	0.82	14	937	3	1	2	0	11
3NPB_A	SAM links to Rfam database...	0.59	0.35	1.00	13	2265	2	0	0	2	24
3O58_3	5_8S_rRNA links to Rfam database...	0.52	0.27	1.00	6	4758	1	0	0	1	16
3PDR_A	ykoK links to Rfam database...	0.53	0.28	1.00	14	4826	0	0	0	0	36
3RKF_A	Purine links to Rfam database...	0.62	0.50	0.80	12	851	3	1	2	0	12
3SD1_A	THF links to Rfam database...	0.56	0.38	0.85	11	1520	2	0	2	0	18
4A1C_2	5_8S_rRNA links to Rfam database...	0.59	0.35	1.00	7	4509	0	0	0	0	13
4AOB_A	SAM links to Rfam database...	0.69	0.48	1.00	14	1423	1	0	0	1	15
4ENB_A	crcB links to Rfam database...	0.63	0.40	1.00	6	466	0	0	0	0	9
4ENC_A	crcB links to Rfam database...	0.63	0.40	1.00	6	490	0	0	0	0	9

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