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Metric	RNAfold		PPfold(seed)
MCC	0.565	>	0.102
Average MCC ± 95% Confidence Intervals	0.573 ± 0.132	>	0.050 ± 0.095
Sensitivity	0.476	>	0.020
Positive Predictive Value	0.677	>	0.538
Total TP	170	>	7
Total TN	42657	<	42895
Total FP	95	>	25
Total FP CONTRA	11	>	0
Total FP INCONS	70	>	6
Total FP COMP	14	<	19
Total FN	187	<	350
P-value	8.61680779366e-09

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

Total Scores
MCC	0.565
Average MCC ± 95% Confidence Intervals	0.573 ± 0.132
Sensitivity	0.476
Positive Predictive Value	0.677
Nr of predictions	11

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
3AMU_B	tRNA links to Rfam database...	0.70	0.59	0.84	16	2984	5	0	3	2	11
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
3UZL_B	tRNA links to Rfam database...	0.48	0.38	0.61	14	3547	9	0	9	0	23
4A1C_3	5S_rRNA links to Rfam database...	0.70	0.59	0.82	32	7101	7	1	6	0	22
4A1C_2	5_8S_rRNA links to Rfam database...	0.14	0.15	0.14	5	11744	43	5	27	11	28
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

Total Scores
MCC	0.102
Average MCC ± 95% Confidence Intervals	0.050 ± 0.095
Sensitivity	0.020
Positive Predictive Value	0.538
Nr of predictions	11

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...	0.47	0.30	0.75	6	1532	2	0	2	0	14
3AMU_B	tRNA links to Rfam database...	0.00	0.00	0.00	0	3003	0	0	0	0	27
3J16_L	tRNA links to Rfam database...	0.00	0.00	0.00	0	2775	0	0	0	0	30
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
3UZL_B	tRNA links to Rfam database...	0.00	0.00	0.00	0	3570	0	0	0	0	37
4A1C_3	5S_rRNA links to Rfam database...	0.00	0.00	0.00	0	7140	0	0	0	0	54
4A1C_2	5_8S_rRNA links to Rfam database...	0.08	0.03	0.20	1	11776	23	0	4	19	32
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.