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Metric	RNAalifold(seed)		RSpredict(20)
MCC	0.685	>	0.590
Average MCC ± 95% Confidence Intervals	0.693 ± 0.077	>	0.564 ± 0.176
Sensitivity	0.515	<	0.524
Positive Predictive Value	0.918	>	0.671
Total TP	212	<	216
Total TN	49813	>	49722
Total FP	31	<	129
Total FP CONTRA	12	<	51
Total FP INCONS	7	<	55
Total FP COMP	12	<	23
Total FN	200	>	196
P-value	1.75835195567e-08

Comparison of performance of RNAalifold(seed) 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 RNAalifold(seed) 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 RNAalifold(seed) and RSpredict(20)).
Comparison of average Matthews Correlation Coefficients (MCCs) for RNAalifold(seed) 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 RNAalifold(seed) and RSpredict(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	0.590
Average MCC ± 95% Confidence Intervals	0.564 ± 0.176
Sensitivity	0.524
Positive Predictive Value	0.671
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...	0.40	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
3IZ4_A	tmRNA links to Rfam database...	0.61	0.57	0.67	54	25455	38	13	14	11	41
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.