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Metric	RNAalifold(20)		CentroidAlifold(seed)
MCC	0.658	>	0.629
Average MCC ± 95% Confidence Intervals	0.657 ± 0.077	>	0.603 ± 0.062
Sensitivity	0.513	>	0.417
Positive Predictive Value	0.847	<	0.953
Total TP	470	>	382
Total TN	191063	<	191217
Total FP	118	>	34
Total FP CONTRA	20	>	4
Total FP INCONS	65	>	15
Total FP COMP	33	>	15
Total FN	446	<	534
P-value	5.19332990918e-08

Comparison of performance of RNAalifold(20) and CentroidAlifold(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 RNAalifold(20) and CentroidAlifold(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 RNAalifold(20) and CentroidAlifold(seed)).
Comparison of average Matthews Correlation Coefficients (MCCs) for RNAalifold(20) and CentroidAlifold(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 RNAalifold(20) and CentroidAlifold(seed)).

Total Scores
MCC	0.658
Average MCC ± 95% Confidence Intervals	0.657 ± 0.077
Sensitivity	0.513
Positive Predictive Value	0.847
Nr of predictions	23

RNA Chain	Rfam family	MCC	SENS	PPV	TP	TN	FP	FP CONTRA	FP INCONS	FP COMP	FN
2WRQ_Y	tRNA links to Rfam database...	0.57	0.59	0.56	10	2832	11	5	3	3	7
2XQD_Y	tRNA links to Rfam database...	0.88	0.78	1.00	21	2829	0	0	0	0	6
3A2K_C	tRNA links to Rfam database...	0.86	0.75	1.00	21	2905	0	0	0	0	7
3AMU_B	tRNA links to Rfam database...	0.86	0.74	1.00	20	2983	1	0	0	1	7
3GX2_A	SAM links to Rfam database...	0.77	0.60	1.00	24	4347	1	0	0	1	16
3IVN_B	Purine links to Rfam database...	0.74	0.58	0.95	18	2327	1	1	0	0	13
3IZ4_A	tmRNA links to Rfam database...	0.53	0.35	0.82	46	70820	15	4	6	5	86
3IZF_C	5S_rRNA links to Rfam database...	0.71	0.59	0.86	32	6866	5	1	4	0	22
3JYV_7	tRNA links to Rfam database...	0.81	0.66	1.00	21	2829	0	0	0	0	11
3JYX_4	5_8S_rRNA links to Rfam database...	0.39	0.30	0.50	10	12226	15	0	10	5	23
3JYX_3	5S_rRNA links to Rfam database...	0.60	0.52	0.70	14	6308	17	0	6	11	13
3LA5_A	Purine links to Rfam database...	0.75	0.56	1.00	19	2466	0	0	0	0	15
3NPB_A	SAM links to Rfam database...	0.68	0.48	0.96	22	6998	3	1	0	2	24
3O58_3	5_8S_rRNA links to Rfam database...	0.37	0.26	0.53	9	12386	8	2	6	0	26
3O58_2	5S_rRNA links to Rfam database...	0.79	0.76	0.83	29	7225	7	3	3	1	9
3PDR_A	ykoK links to Rfam database...	0.76	0.61	0.96	44	12834	3	0	2	1	28
3RKF_A	Purine links to Rfam database...	0.68	0.50	0.94	17	2193	1	0	1	0	17
3SD1_A	THF links to Rfam database...	0.70	0.60	0.83	25	3886	5	1	4	0	17
4A1C_3	5S_rRNA links to Rfam database...	0.74	0.57	0.97	31	7108	1	0	1	0	23
4A1C_2	5_8S_rRNA links to Rfam database...	0.17	0.15	0.19	5	11755	23	2	19	2	28
4AOB_A	SAM links to Rfam database...	0.72	0.52	1.00	22	4349	1	0	0	1	20
4ENB_A	crcB links to Rfam database...	0.46	0.21	1.00	4	1271	0	0	0	0	15
4ENC_A	crcB links to Rfam database...	0.56	0.32	1.00	6	1320	0	0	0	0	13

Total Scores
MCC	0.629
Average MCC ± 95% Confidence Intervals	0.603 ± 0.062
Sensitivity	0.417
Positive Predictive Value	0.953
Nr of predictions	23

RNA Chain	Rfam family	MCC	SENS	PPV	TP	TN	FP	FP CONTRA	FP INCONS	FP COMP	FN
2WRQ_Y	tRNA links to Rfam database...	0.24	0.12	0.50	2	2846	4	0	2	2	15
2XQD_Y	tRNA links to Rfam database...	0.47	0.22	1.00	6	2844	0	0	0	0	21
3A2K_C	tRNA links to Rfam database...	0.46	0.21	1.00	6	2920	0	0	0	0	22
3AMU_B	tRNA links to Rfam database...	0.47	0.22	1.00	6	2997	0	0	0	0	21
3GX2_A	SAM links to Rfam database...	0.77	0.60	1.00	24	4347	1	0	0	1	16
3IVN_B	Purine links to Rfam database...	0.78	0.65	0.95	20	2325	1	1	0	0	11
3IZ4_A	tmRNA links to Rfam database...	0.58	0.39	0.88	51	70818	7	2	5	0	81
3IZF_C	5S_rRNA links to Rfam database...	0.54	0.30	1.00	16	6887	0	0	0	0	38
3JYV_7	tRNA links to Rfam database...	0.43	0.19	1.00	6	2844	0	0	0	0	26
3JYX_4	5_8S_rRNA links to Rfam database...	0.52	0.30	0.91	10	12235	3	0	1	2	23
3JYX_3	5S_rRNA links to Rfam database...	0.59	0.41	0.85	11	6315	5	0	2	3	16
3LA5_A	Purine links to Rfam database...	0.78	0.62	1.00	21	2464	0	0	0	0	13
3NPB_A	SAM links to Rfam database...	0.71	0.54	0.93	25	6994	4	1	1	2	21
3O58_3	5_8S_rRNA links to Rfam database...	0.56	0.34	0.92	12	12390	1	0	1	0	23
3O58_2	5S_rRNA links to Rfam database...	0.65	0.42	1.00	16	7244	0	0	0	0	22
3PDR_A	ykoK links to Rfam database...	0.77	0.61	0.98	44	12835	3	0	1	2	28
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...	0.71	0.52	0.96	22	3893	1	0	1	0	20
4A1C_3	5S_rRNA links to Rfam database...	0.54	0.30	1.00	16	7124	0	0	0	0	38
4A1C_2	5_8S_rRNA links to Rfam database...	0.46	0.24	0.89	8	11772	3	0	1	2	25
4AOB_A	SAM links to Rfam database...	0.75	0.57	1.00	24	4347	1	0	0	1	18
4ENB_A	crcB links to Rfam database...	0.65	0.42	1.00	8	1267	0	0	0	0	11
4ENC_A	crcB links to Rfam database...	0.65	0.42	1.00	8	1318	0	0	0	0	11

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