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Metric	RNAalifold(seed)		UNAFold
MCC	0.634	>	0.619
Average MCC ± 95% Confidence Intervals	0.634 ± 0.121	<	0.643 ± 0.168
Sensitivity	0.479	<	0.646
Positive Predictive Value	0.842	>	0.599
Total TP	245	<	330
Total TN	74221	>	73961
Total FP	62	<	282
Total FP CONTRA	25	<	88
Total FP INCONS	21	<	133
Total FP COMP	16	<	61
Total FN	266	>	181
P-value	6.77735941577e-06

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

Total Scores
MCC	0.634
Average MCC ± 95% Confidence Intervals	0.634 ± 0.121
Sensitivity	0.479
Positive Predictive Value	0.842
Nr of predictions	16

RNA Chain	Rfam family	MCC	SENS	PPV	TP	TN	FP	FP CONTRA	FP INCONS	FP COMP	FN
2LC8_A	GP_knot1 links to Rfam database...	-0.03	0.00	0.00	0	516	12	0	12	0	18
3A3A_A	tRNA-Sec links to Rfam database...	0.79	0.63	1.00	19	1481	0	0	0	0	11
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
3IYQ_A	tmRNA links to Rfam database...	0.36	0.27	0.48	14	22411	19	13	2	4	37
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	0.619
Average MCC ± 95% Confidence Intervals	0.643 ± 0.168
Sensitivity	0.646
Positive Predictive Value	0.599
Nr of predictions	16

RNA Chain	Rfam family	MCC	SENS	PPV	TP	TN	FP	FP CONTRA	FP INCONS	FP COMP	FN
2LC8_A	GP_knot1 links to Rfam database...	-0.03	0.00	0.00	0	513	15	3	12	0	18
3A3A_A	tRNA-Sec links to Rfam database...	0.97	0.93	1.00	28	1472	0	0	0	0	2
3GX2_A	SAM links to Rfam database...	0.81	0.79	0.85	22	1423	5	2	2	1	6
3IVN_B	Purine links to Rfam database...	0.91	0.83	1.00	19	884	0	0	0	0	4
3IYQ_A	tmRNA links to Rfam database...	0.23	0.33	0.17	17	22339	96	46	38	12	34
3IZ4_A	tmRNA links to Rfam database...	0.58	0.60	0.57	57	25436	53	12	31	10	38
3LA5_A	Purine links to Rfam database...	0.91	0.84	1.00	21	933	0	0	0	0	4
3NPB_A	SAM links to Rfam database...	0.85	0.78	0.94	29	2247	6	0	2	4	8
3O58_3	5_8S_rRNA links to Rfam database...	0.42	0.50	0.35	11	4733	34	5	15	14	11
3PDR_A	ykoK links to Rfam database...	0.93	0.92	0.94	46	4791	5	1	2	2	4
3RKF_A	Purine links to Rfam database...	0.91	0.83	1.00	20	846	0	0	0	0	4
3SD1_A	THF links to Rfam database...	0.77	0.76	0.79	22	1505	6	4	2	0	7
4A1C_2	5_8S_rRNA links to Rfam database...	0.19	0.25	0.15	5	4483	42	11	17	14	15
4AOB_A	SAM links to Rfam database...	0.60	0.59	0.63	17	1410	11	4	6	1	12
4ENB_A	crcB links to Rfam database...	0.85	0.73	1.00	11	461	2	0	0	2	4
4ENC_A	crcB links to Rfam database...	0.37	0.33	0.45	5	485	7	0	6	1	10

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