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Metric	ProbKnot		Carnac(seed)
MCC	0.572	>	0.088
Average MCC ± 95% Confidence Intervals	0.542 ± 0.155	>	0.034 ± 0.075
Sensitivity	0.516	>	0.008
Positive Predictive Value	0.641	<	1.000
Total TP	262	>	4
Total TN	79618	<	80023
Total FP	178	>	0
Total FP CONTRA	26	>	0
Total FP INCONS	121	>	0
Total FP COMP	31	>	0
Total FN	246	<	504
P-value	2.16131455263e-08

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

Total Scores
MCC	0.572
Average MCC ± 95% Confidence Intervals	0.542 ± 0.155
Sensitivity	0.516
Positive Predictive Value	0.641
Nr of predictions	13

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...	-0.01	0.00	0.00	0	1525	15	2	13	0	20
3IZF_C	5S_rRNA links to Rfam database...	0.72	0.61	0.85	33	6864	6	0	6	0	21
3NPB_A	SAM links to Rfam database...	0.72	0.61	0.85	28	6988	8	1	4	3	18
3O58_2	5S_rRNA links to Rfam database...	0.76	0.76	0.76	29	7222	10	3	6	1	9
3O58_3	5_8S_rRNA links to Rfam database...	0.31	0.34	0.29	12	12362	41	4	25	12	23
3PDR_A	ykoK links to Rfam database...	0.74	0.64	0.85	46	12826	10	1	7	2	26
3RKF_A	Purine links to Rfam database...	0.73	0.59	0.91	20	2189	2	1	1	0	14
3SD1_A	THF links to Rfam database...	0.55	0.48	0.65	20	3885	11	2	9	0	22
4A1C_2	5_8S_rRNA links to Rfam database...	0.13	0.15	0.12	5	11738	49	7	31	11	28
4A1C_3	5S_rRNA links to Rfam database...	0.73	0.61	0.87	33	7102	6	1	4	1	21
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...	0.73	0.58	0.92	11	1263	1	1	0	0	8
4ENC_A	crcB links to Rfam database...	0.45	0.42	0.50	8	1310	8	1	7	0	11

Total Scores
MCC	0.088
Average MCC ± 95% Confidence Intervals	0.034 ± 0.075
Sensitivity	0.008
Positive Predictive Value	1.000
Nr of predictions	13

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...	0.44	0.20	1.00	4	1536	0	0	0	0	16
3IZF_C	5S_rRNA links to Rfam database...	0.00	0.00	0.00	0	6903	0	0	0	0	54
3NPB_A	SAM links to Rfam database...	0.00	0.00	0.00	0	7021	0	0	0	0	46
3O58_2	5S_rRNA links to Rfam database...	0.00	0.00	0.00	0	7260	0	0	0	0	38
3O58_3	5_8S_rRNA links to Rfam database...	0.00	0.00	0.00	0	12403	0	0	0	0	35
3PDR_A	ykoK links to Rfam database...	0.00	0.00	0.00	0	12880	0	0	0	0	72
3RKF_A	Purine links to Rfam database...	0.00	0.00	0.00	0	2211	0	0	0	0	34
3SD1_A	THF links to Rfam database...	0.00	0.00	0.00	0	3916	0	0	0	0	42
4A1C_2	5_8S_rRNA links to Rfam database...	0.00	0.00	0.00	0	11781	0	0	0	0	33
4A1C_3	5S_rRNA links to Rfam database...	0.00	0.00	0.00	0	7140	0	0	0	0	54
4AOB_A	SAM links to Rfam database...	0.00	0.00	0.00	0	4371	0	0	0	0	42
4ENB_A	crcB links to Rfam database...	0.00	0.00	0.00	0	1275	0	0	0	0	19
4ENC_A	crcB links to Rfam database...	0.00	0.00	0.00	0	1326	0	0	0	0	19

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