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Table of contents:

  1. Overview

  2. Performance Plots

  3. Performance of RNAfold - scored higher in this pairwise comparison

  4. Performance of Alterna - scored lower in this pairwise comparison

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Overview

Metric RNAfold Alterna
MCC 0.569 > 0.523
Average MCC ± 95% Confidence Intervals 0.543 ± 0.097 > 0.510 ± 0.092
Sensitivity 0.484 > 0.449
Positive Predictive Value 0.680 > 0.620
Total TP 440 > 409
Total TN 79617 > 79604
Total FP 219 < 263
Total FP CONTRA 17 < 28
Total FP INCONS 190 < 223
Total FP COMP 12 = 12
Total FN 470 < 501
P-value 3.56938820447e-08

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Performance plots


  1. Comparison of performance of RNAfold and Alterna. 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 Alterna).

  2. 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 Alterna).

  3. Comparison of average Matthews Correlation Coefficients (MCCs) for RNAfold and Alterna. 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 Alterna).

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Performance of RNAfold - scored higher in this pairwise comparison

1. Total counts & total scores for RNAfold

Total Base Pair Counts
Total TP 440
Total TN 79617
Total FP 219
Total FP CONTRA 17
Total FP INCONS 190
Total FP COMP 12
Total FN 470
Total Scores
MCC 0.569
Average MCC ± 95% Confidence Intervals 0.543 ± 0.097
Sensitivity 0.484
Positive Predictive Value 0.680
Nr of predictions 35

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2. Individual counts for RNAfold [ download as .csv ]

RNA Chain Rfam family MCC SENS PPV TP TN FP FP CONTRA FP INCONS FP COMP FN
2KDQ_B 0.95 0.91 1.00 10 396 0 0 0 0 1
2KFC_A - -0.02 0.00 0.00 0 623 7 0 7 0 20
2KX8_A 0.94 0.89 1.00 16 845 0 0 0 0 2
2LA5_A - 0.39 0.26 0.63 5 622 3 1 2 0 14
2LC8_A 0.61 0.55 0.69 11 1524 5 0 5 0 9
2RP0_A - 0.64 0.42 1.00 5 346 0 0 0 0 7
2WRQ_Y 0.57 0.59 0.56 10 2832 13 5 3 5 7
2WW9_F - 0.59 0.60 0.60 6 290 4 0 4 0 4
2WW9_E - 0.53 0.29 1.00 4 557 0 0 0 0 10
2WW9_D - 0.14 0.12 0.19 3 1937 13 0 13 0 23
2WWQ_V 0.76 0.68 0.86 19 2904 5 0 3 2 9
2XQD_Y 0.88 0.78 1.00 21 2829 0 0 0 0 6
2ZZM_B 0.21 0.19 0.25 6 3462 18 0 18 0 26
2ZZN_D 0.82 0.78 0.88 21 2461 3 0 3 0 6
3A2K_C 0.42 0.39 0.46 11 2902 13 2 11 0 17
3A3A_A 0.87 0.76 1.00 28 3627 0 0 0 0 9
3ADB_C - 0.33 0.32 0.35 12 4152 22 0 22 0 26
3AKZ_H 0.43 0.39 0.48 11 2678 12 2 10 0 17
3AM1_B - 0.68 0.63 0.73 22 3210 8 1 7 0 13
3AMU_B 0.70 0.59 0.84 16 2984 5 0 3 2 11
3GCA_A - 0.54 0.29 1.00 5 523 0 0 0 0 12
3GX2_A 0.68 0.55 0.85 22 4345 5 0 4 1 18
3IVN_B 0.78 0.61 1.00 19 2327 0 0 0 0 12
3IWN_A 0.63 0.58 0.70 19 4251 9 0 8 1 14
3J0L_g - -0.01 0.00 0.00 0 460 5 1 4 0 4
3J0L_7 - -0.01 0.00 0.00 0 1213 12 0 12 0 17
3J0L_a - 0.23 0.19 0.30 3 1118 7 1 6 0 13
3J16_L 0.75 0.57 1.00 17 2758 0 0 0 0 13
3JYV_7 -0.01 0.00 0.00 0 2828 22 1 21 0 32
3KTW_C - 0.73 0.63 0.84 27 4528 6 2 3 1 16
3LA5_A 0.78 0.62 1.00 21 2464 0 0 0 0 13
3NKB_B - 0.59 0.54 0.67 14 1995 7 0 7 0 12
3RKF_A 0.76 0.59 1.00 20 2191 0 0 0 0 14
3SD1_A 0.64 0.52 0.79 22 3888 6 1 5 0 20
3UZL_B 0.48 0.38 0.61 14 3547 9 0 9 0 23

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Performance of Alterna - scored lower in this pairwise comparison

1. Total counts & total scores for Alterna

Total Base Pair Counts
Total TP 409
Total TN 79604
Total FP 263
Total FP CONTRA 28
Total FP INCONS 223
Total FP COMP 12
Total FN 501
Total Scores
MCC 0.523
Average MCC ± 95% Confidence Intervals 0.510 ± 0.092
Sensitivity 0.449
Positive Predictive Value 0.620
Nr of predictions 35

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2. Individual counts for Alterna [ download as .csv ]

RNA Chain Rfam family MCC SENS PPV TP TN FP FP CONTRA FP INCONS FP COMP FN
2KDQ_B 0.95 0.91 1.00 10 396 0 0 0 0 1
2KFC_A - 0.49 0.25 1.00 5 625 0 0 0 0 15
2KX8_A 0.88 0.83 0.94 15 845 1 0 1 0 3
2LA5_A - 0.46 0.26 0.83 5 624 1 0 1 0 14
2LC8_A 0.46 0.40 0.53 8 1525 7 0 7 0 12
2RP0_A - 0.64 0.42 1.00 5 346 0 0 0 0 7
2WRQ_Y 0.57 0.59 0.56 10 2832 13 5 3 5 7
2WW9_F - 0.71 0.60 0.86 6 293 1 0 1 0 4
2WW9_E - -0.01 0.00 0.00 0 556 5 0 5 0 14
2WW9_D - -0.01 0.00 0.00 0 1936 17 1 16 0 26
2WWQ_V 0.76 0.68 0.86 19 2904 5 0 3 2 9
2XQD_Y 0.67 0.59 0.76 16 2829 5 0 5 0 11
2ZZM_B 0.10 0.09 0.13 3 3463 20 2 18 0 29
2ZZN_D 0.84 0.78 0.91 21 2462 2 0 2 0 6
3A2K_C 0.44 0.43 0.46 12 2900 14 2 12 0 16
3A3A_A 0.84 0.70 1.00 26 3629 0 0 0 0 11
3ADB_C - 0.59 0.55 0.64 21 4153 12 0 12 0 17
3AKZ_H 0.40 0.39 0.42 11 2675 15 4 11 0 17
3AM1_B - 0.61 0.57 0.67 20 3210 10 1 9 0 15
3AMU_B 0.64 0.59 0.70 16 2980 9 0 7 2 11
3GCA_A - 0.54 0.29 1.00 5 523 0 0 0 0 12
3GX2_A 0.47 0.40 0.57 16 4343 13 1 11 1 24
3IVN_B 0.74 0.61 0.90 19 2325 2 1 1 0 12
3IWN_A 0.75 0.67 0.85 22 4252 5 0 4 1 11
3J0L_g - -0.01 0.00 0.00 0 456 9 4 5 0 4
3J0L_7 - 0.26 0.24 0.31 4 1212 9 0 9 0 13
3J0L_a - 0.23 0.19 0.30 3 1118 7 1 6 0 13
3J16_L 0.63 0.53 0.76 16 2754 5 1 4 0 14
3JYV_7 -0.01 0.00 0.00 0 2828 22 0 22 0 32
3KTW_C - 0.39 0.35 0.45 15 4527 19 1 17 1 28
3LA5_A 0.78 0.62 1.00 21 2464 0 0 0 0 13
3NKB_B - 0.35 0.31 0.42 8 1997 11 0 11 0 18
3RKF_A 0.69 0.56 0.86 19 2189 3 1 2 0 15
3SD1_A 0.46 0.38 0.57 16 3888 12 1 11 0 26
3UZL_B 0.52 0.43 0.64 16 3545 9 2 7 0 21

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