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Metric	RNAalifold(seed)		Murlet(20)
MCC	0.685	>	0.643
Average MCC ± 95% Confidence Intervals	0.693 ± 0.077	>	0.651 ± 0.125
Sensitivity	0.515	<	0.519
Positive Predictive Value	0.918	>	0.801
Total TP	212	<	214
Total TN	49813	>	49777
Total FP	31	<	73
Total FP CONTRA	12	<	17
Total FP INCONS	7	<	36
Total FP COMP	12	<	20
Total FN	200	>	198
P-value	1.89649746203e-08

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

Total Scores
MCC	0.685
Average MCC ± 95% Confidence Intervals	0.693 ± 0.077
Sensitivity	0.515
Positive Predictive Value	0.918
Nr of predictions	13

RNA Chain	Rfam family	MCC	SENS	PPV	TP	TN	FP	FP CONTRA	FP INCONS	FP COMP	FN
3GX2_A	SAM links to Rfam database...	0.88	0.79	1.00	22	1427	1	0	0	1	6
3IVN_B	Purine links to Rfam database...	0.71	0.65	0.79	15	884	4	2	2	0	8
3IZ4_A	tmRNA links to Rfam database...	0.46	0.26	0.81	25	25505	8	6	0	2	70
3LA5_A	Purine links to Rfam database...	0.73	0.64	0.84	16	935	3	1	2	0	9
3NPB_A	SAM links to Rfam database...	0.77	0.59	1.00	22	2256	3	0	0	3	15
3O58_3	5_8S_rRNA links to Rfam database...	0.60	0.36	1.00	8	4756	1	0	0	1	14
3PDR_A	ykoK links to Rfam database...	0.81	0.66	1.00	33	4807	1	0	0	1	17
3RKF_A	Purine links to Rfam database...	0.74	0.67	0.84	16	847	3	1	2	0	8
3SD1_A	THF links to Rfam database...	0.70	0.59	0.85	17	1513	3	2	1	0	12
4A1C_2	5_8S_rRNA links to Rfam database...	0.50	0.25	1.00	5	4511	2	0	0	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...	0.63	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

Total Scores
MCC	0.643
Average MCC ± 95% Confidence Intervals	0.651 ± 0.125
Sensitivity	0.519
Positive Predictive Value	0.801
Nr of predictions	13

RNA Chain	Rfam family	MCC	SENS	PPV	TP	TN	FP	FP CONTRA	FP INCONS	FP COMP	FN
3GX2_A	SAM links to Rfam database...	0.73	0.54	1.00	15	1434	1	0	0	1	13
3IVN_B	Purine links to Rfam database...	0.80	0.65	1.00	15	888	0	0	0	0	8
3IZ4_A	tmRNA links to Rfam database...	0.46	0.33	0.66	31	25489	22	3	13	6	64
3LA5_A	Purine links to Rfam database...	0.80	0.64	1.00	16	938	0	0	0	0	9
3NPB_A	SAM links to Rfam database...	0.65	0.43	1.00	16	2262	2	0	0	2	21
3O58_3	5_8S_rRNA links to Rfam database...	0.37	0.32	0.44	7	4748	13	4	5	4	15
3PDR_A	ykoK links to Rfam database...	0.84	0.76	0.93	38	4799	3	1	2	0	12
3RKF_A	Purine links to Rfam database...	0.81	0.67	1.00	16	850	0	0	0	0	8
3SD1_A	THF links to Rfam database...	0.82	0.83	0.83	24	1504	5	4	1	0	5
4A1C_2	5_8S_rRNA links to Rfam database...	0.22	0.25	0.20	5	4491	24	5	15	4	15
4AOB_A	SAM links to Rfam database...	0.87	0.76	1.00	22	1415	3	0	0	3	7
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...	0.57	0.33	1.00	5	491	0	0	0	0	10

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