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Metric	Contrafold		Multilign(20)
MCC	0.567	>	0.517
Average MCC ± 95% Confidence Intervals	0.584 ± 0.177	>	0.513 ± 0.207
Sensitivity	0.596	>	0.530
Positive Predictive Value	0.550	>	0.515
Total TP	137	>	122
Total TN	19963	<	19975
Total FP	161	>	139
Total FP CONTRA	46	>	39
Total FP INCONS	66	<	76
Total FP COMP	49	>	24
Total FN	93	<	108
P-value	2.52220743227e-08

Comparison of performance of Contrafold and Multilign(20). 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 Contrafold and Multilign(20)).
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 Contrafold and Multilign(20)).
Comparison of average Matthews Correlation Coefficients (MCCs) for Contrafold and Multilign(20). 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 Contrafold and Multilign(20)).

Total Scores
MCC	0.567
Average MCC ± 95% Confidence Intervals	0.584 ± 0.177
Sensitivity	0.596
Positive Predictive Value	0.550
Nr of predictions	11

RNA Chain	Rfam family	MCC	SENS	PPV	TP	TN	FP	FP CONTRA	FP INCONS	FP COMP	FN
3J20_0	tRNA links to Rfam database...	0.53	0.57	0.50	12	1195	13	3	9	1	9
3J3D_C	tRNA links to Rfam database...	0.71	0.79	0.65	15	945	8	3	5	0	4
3J3E_8	5_8S_rRNA links to Rfam database...	0.12	0.13	0.11	2	2724	32	5	11	16	13
3J3F_8	5_8S_rRNA links to Rfam database...	0.35	0.47	0.26	9	4726	44	13	13	18	10
3RKF_A	Purine links to Rfam database...	0.87	0.83	0.91	20	844	2	2	0	0	4
3SD1_A	THF links to Rfam database...	0.68	0.69	0.69	20	1504	9	5	4	0	9
4A1C_2	5_8S_rRNA links to Rfam database...	0.21	0.25	0.19	5	4489	33	9	13	11	15
4AOB_A	SAM links to Rfam database...	0.53	0.52	0.56	15	1410	13	3	9	1	14
4ENB_A	crcB links to Rfam database...	0.85	0.73	1.00	11	461	1	0	0	1	4
4ENC_A	crcB links to Rfam database...	0.85	0.73	1.00	11	485	1	0	0	1	4
4FRG_B	AdoCbl-variant links to Rfam database...	0.73	0.71	0.77	17	1180	5	3	2	0	7

Total Scores
MCC	0.517
Average MCC ± 95% Confidence Intervals	0.513 ± 0.207
Sensitivity	0.530
Positive Predictive Value	0.515
Nr of predictions	11

RNA Chain	Rfam family	MCC	SENS	PPV	TP	TN	FP	FP CONTRA	FP INCONS	FP COMP	FN
3J20_0	tRNA links to Rfam database...	0.68	0.71	0.65	15	1196	9	2	6	1	6
3J3D_C	tRNA links to Rfam database...	0.90	0.95	0.86	18	947	3	3	0	0	1
3J3E_8	5_8S_rRNA links to Rfam database...	-0.01	0.00	0.00	0	2720	22	8	14	0	15
3J3F_8	5_8S_rRNA links to Rfam database...	0.45	0.53	0.38	10	4735	30	7	9	14	9
3RKF_A	Purine links to Rfam database...	0.91	0.88	0.95	21	844	1	0	1	0	3
3SD1_A	THF links to Rfam database...	0.68	0.69	0.69	20	1504	9	4	5	0	9
4A1C_2	5_8S_rRNA links to Rfam database...	0.20	0.25	0.16	5	4485	33	9	17	7	15
4AOB_A	SAM links to Rfam database...	0.59	0.55	0.64	16	1412	10	3	6	1	13
4ENB_A	crcB links to Rfam database...	0.39	0.33	0.50	5	462	6	0	5	1	10
4ENC_A	crcB links to Rfam database...	0.73	0.60	0.90	9	486	1	1	0	0	6
4FRG_B	AdoCbl-variant links to Rfam database...	0.13	0.13	0.17	3	1184	15	2	13	0	21

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