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Metric	RSpredict(20)		RDfolder
MCC	0.742	>	0.613
Average MCC ± 95% Confidence Intervals	0.715 ± 0.175	>	0.601 ± 0.231
Sensitivity	0.643	>	0.552
Positive Predictive Value	0.865	>	0.698
Total TP	148	>	127
Total TN	10158	>	10147
Total FP	25	<	57
Total FP CONTRA	9	<	10
Total FP INCONS	14	<	45
Total FP COMP	2	=	2
Total FN	82	<	103
P-value	1.26497248087e-08

Comparison of performance of RSpredict(20) and RDfolder. 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 RSpredict(20) and RDfolder).
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 RSpredict(20) and RDfolder).
Comparison of average Matthews Correlation Coefficients (MCCs) for RSpredict(20) and RDfolder. 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 RSpredict(20) and RDfolder).

Total Scores
MCC	0.742
Average MCC ± 95% Confidence Intervals	0.715 ± 0.175
Sensitivity	0.643
Positive Predictive Value	0.865
Nr of predictions	10

RNA Chain	Rfam family	MCC	SENS	PPV	TP	TN	FP	FP CONTRA	FP INCONS	FP COMP	FN
3A2K_C	tRNA links to Rfam database...	0.88	0.86	0.90	19	1087	2	0	2	0	3
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
3JYV_7	tRNA links to Rfam database...	0.97	0.95	1.00	19	1092	2	0	0	2	1
3LA5_A	Purine links to Rfam database...	0.89	0.80	1.00	20	934	0	0	0	0	5
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
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

Total Scores
MCC	0.613
Average MCC ± 95% Confidence Intervals	0.601 ± 0.231
Sensitivity	0.552
Positive Predictive Value	0.698
Nr of predictions	10

RNA Chain	Rfam family	MCC	SENS	PPV	TP	TN	FP	FP CONTRA	FP INCONS	FP COMP	FN
3A2K_C	tRNA links to Rfam database...	0.98	0.95	1.00	21	1087	0	0	0	0	1
3GX2_A	SAM links to Rfam database...	0.60	0.57	0.64	16	1424	10	2	7	1	12
3IVN_B	Purine links to Rfam database...	0.91	0.83	1.00	19	884	0	0	0	0	4
3JYV_7	tRNA links to Rfam database...	-0.02	0.00	0.00	0	1091	20	4	16	0	20
3LA5_A	Purine links to Rfam database...	0.91	0.84	1.00	21	933	0	0	0	0	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...	0.35	0.24	0.54	7	1520	6	1	5	0	22
4AOB_A	SAM links to Rfam database...	0.42	0.38	0.48	11	1414	13	3	9	1	18
4ENB_A	crcB links to Rfam database...	0.48	0.40	0.60	6	462	4	0	4	0	9
4ENC_A	crcB links to Rfam database...	0.48	0.40	0.60	6	486	4	0	4	0	9

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