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Metric	RNAfold		Carnac(seed)
MCC	0.743	>	0.104
Average MCC ± 95% Confidence Intervals	0.725 ± 0.142	>	0.033 ± 0.072
Sensitivity	0.737	>	0.011
Positive Predictive Value	0.756	<	1.000
Total TP	269	>	4
Total TN	26180	<	26532
Total FP	126	>	0
Total FP CONTRA	30	>	0
Total FP INCONS	57	>	0
Total FP COMP	39	>	0
Total FN	96	<	361
P-value	2.04409141234e-08

Comparison of performance of RNAfold and Carnac(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 RNAfold and Carnac(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 RNAfold and Carnac(seed)).
Comparison of average Matthews Correlation Coefficients (MCCs) for RNAfold and Carnac(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 RNAfold and Carnac(seed)).

Total Scores
MCC	0.743
Average MCC ± 95% Confidence Intervals	0.725 ± 0.142
Sensitivity	0.737
Positive Predictive Value	0.756
Nr of predictions	14

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...	0.64	0.61	0.69	11	512	5	0	5	0	7
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
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...	0.91	0.86	0.97	32	2245	5	1	0	4	5
3O58_3	5_8S_rRNA links to Rfam database...	0.41	0.50	0.34	11	4732	35	6	15	14	11
3PDR_A	ykoK links to Rfam database...	0.90	0.90	0.90	45	4790	7	2	3	2	5
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	4482	43	11	18	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

Total Scores
MCC	0.104
Average MCC ± 95% Confidence Intervals	0.033 ± 0.072
Sensitivity	0.011
Positive Predictive Value	1.000
Nr of predictions	14

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...	0.47	0.22	1.00	4	524	0	0	0	0	14
3A3A_A	tRNA-Sec links to Rfam database...	0.00	0.00	0.00	0	1500	0	0	0	0	30
3GX2_A	SAM links to Rfam database...	0.00	0.00	0.00	0	1449	0	0	0	0	28
3IVN_B	Purine links to Rfam database...	0.00	0.00	0.00	0	903	0	0	0	0	23
3LA5_A	Purine links to Rfam database...	0.00	0.00	0.00	0	954	0	0	0	0	25
3NPB_A	SAM links to Rfam database...	0.00	0.00	0.00	0	2278	0	0	0	0	37
3O58_3	5_8S_rRNA links to Rfam database...	0.00	0.00	0.00	0	4764	0	0	0	0	22
3PDR_A	ykoK links to Rfam database...	0.00	0.00	0.00	0	4840	0	0	0	0	50
3RKF_A	Purine links to Rfam database...	0.00	0.00	0.00	0	866	0	0	0	0	24
3SD1_A	THF links to Rfam database...	0.00	0.00	0.00	0	1533	0	0	0	0	29
4A1C_2	5_8S_rRNA links to Rfam database...	0.00	0.00	0.00	0	4516	0	0	0	0	20
4AOB_A	SAM links to Rfam database...	0.00	0.00	0.00	0	1437	0	0	0	0	29
4ENB_A	crcB links to Rfam database...	0.00	0.00	0.00	0	472	0	0	0	0	15
4ENC_A	crcB links to Rfam database...	0.00	0.00	0.00	0	496	0	0	0	0	15

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