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Metric	IPknot		RNAfold
MCC	0.567	>	0.524
Average MCC ± 95% Confidence Intervals	0.507 ± 0.142	>	0.475 ± 0.146
Sensitivity	0.463	>	0.451
Positive Predictive Value	0.702	>	0.615
Total TP	233	>	227
Total TN	60875	>	60838
Total FP	110	<	161
Total FP CONTRA	12	<	15
Total FP INCONS	87	<	127
Total FP COMP	11	<	19
Total FN	270	<	276
P-value	2.32677072069e-08

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

Total Scores
MCC	0.567
Average MCC ± 95% Confidence Intervals	0.507 ± 0.142
Sensitivity	0.463
Positive Predictive Value	0.702
Nr of predictions	17

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...	0.40	0.30	0.55	6	1529	5	1	4	0	14
2LKR_A	-	0.84	0.77	0.91	30	6072	4	0	3	1	9
3AMU_B	tRNA links to Rfam database...	0.70	0.59	0.84	16	2984	5	0	3	2	11
3J0L_g	-	-0.01	0.00	0.00	0	461	4	1	3	0	4
3J0L_a	-	0.21	0.19	0.25	3	1116	9	1	8	0	13
3J0L_2	-	0.39	0.36	0.43	12	6188	18	2	14	2	21
3J0L_7	-	-0.01	0.00	0.00	0	1218	7	0	7	0	17
3J16_L	tRNA links to Rfam database...	0.75	0.57	1.00	17	2758	0	0	0	0	13
3RKF_A	Purine links to Rfam database...	0.76	0.59	1.00	20	2191	0	0	0	0	14
3SD1_A	THF links to Rfam database...	0.61	0.48	0.80	20	3891	5	0	5	0	22
3U4M_B	-	0.68	0.54	0.87	20	3137	3	1	2	0	17
3UZL_B	tRNA links to Rfam database...	0.72	0.54	0.95	20	3549	1	0	1	0	17
4A1C_2	5_8S_rRNA links to Rfam database...	0.17	0.15	0.19	5	11755	26	4	17	5	28
4A1C_3	5S_rRNA links to Rfam database...	0.69	0.57	0.84	31	7103	6	1	5	0	23
4AOB_A	SAM links to Rfam database...	0.42	0.33	0.54	14	4345	13	1	11	1	28
4ENB_A	crcB links to Rfam database...	0.76	0.58	1.00	11	1264	0	0	0	0	8
4ENC_A	crcB links to Rfam database...	0.52	0.42	0.67	8	1314	4	0	4	0	11

Total Scores
MCC	0.524
Average MCC ± 95% Confidence Intervals	0.475 ± 0.146
Sensitivity	0.451
Positive Predictive Value	0.615
Nr of predictions	17

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...	0.61	0.55	0.69	11	1524	5	0	5	0	9
2LKR_A	-	0.93	0.87	1.00	34	6071	3	0	0	3	5
3AMU_B	tRNA links to Rfam database...	0.70	0.59	0.84	16	2984	5	0	3	2	11
3J0L_g	-	-0.01	0.00	0.00	0	460	5	1	4	0	4
3J0L_a	-	0.23	0.19	0.30	3	1118	7	1	6	0	13
3J0L_2	-	0.25	0.24	0.26	8	6185	25	2	21	2	25
3J0L_7	-	-0.01	0.00	0.00	0	1213	12	0	12	0	17
3J16_L	tRNA links to Rfam database...	0.75	0.57	1.00	17	2758	0	0	0	0	13
3RKF_A	Purine links to Rfam database...	0.76	0.59	1.00	20	2191	0	0	0	0	14
3SD1_A	THF links to Rfam database...	0.64	0.52	0.79	22	3888	6	1	5	0	20
3U4M_B	-	0.38	0.32	0.46	12	3134	14	0	14	0	25
3UZL_B	tRNA links to Rfam database...	0.48	0.38	0.61	14	3547	9	0	9	0	23
4A1C_2	5_8S_rRNA links to Rfam database...	0.14	0.15	0.14	5	11744	43	5	27	11	28
4A1C_3	5S_rRNA links to Rfam database...	0.70	0.59	0.82	32	7101	7	1	6	0	22
4AOB_A	SAM links to Rfam database...	0.50	0.40	0.63	17	4344	11	2	8	1	25
4ENB_A	crcB links to Rfam database...	0.70	0.58	0.85	11	1262	2	1	1	0	8
4ENC_A	crcB links to Rfam database...	0.32	0.26	0.42	5	1314	7	1	6	0	14

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