CompaRNA - on-line benchmarks of RNA structure prediction methods

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Metric	McQFold		Alterna
MCC	0.717	>	0.647
Average MCC ± 95% Confidence Intervals	0.700 ± 0.161	>	0.645 ± 0.141
Sensitivity	0.689	>	0.636
Positive Predictive Value	0.758	>	0.674
Total TP	244	>	225
Total TN	15561	>	15549
Total FP	81	<	112
Total FP CONTRA	19	<	28
Total FP INCONS	59	<	81
Total FP COMP	3	=	3
Total FN	110	<	129
P-value	2.76499031155e-08

Comparison of performance of McQFold 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 McQFold and Alterna).
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 McQFold and Alterna).
Comparison of average Matthews Correlation Coefficients (MCCs) for McQFold 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 McQFold and Alterna).

Total Scores
MCC	0.717
Average MCC ± 95% Confidence Intervals	0.700 ± 0.161
Sensitivity	0.689
Positive Predictive Value	0.758
Nr of predictions	17

RNA Chain	Rfam family	MCC	SENS	PPV	TP	TN	FP	FP CONTRA	FP INCONS	FP COMP	FN
2KFC_A	-	0.79	0.63	1.00	5	231	0	0	0	0	3
2LC8_A	GP_knot1 links to Rfam database...	0.64	0.61	0.69	11	512	5	1	4	0	7
2RP0_A	-	0.84	0.71	1.00	5	111	0	0	0	0	2
2ZZN_D	tRNA links to Rfam database...	0.93	0.95	0.91	21	961	2	2	0	0	1
3A2K_C	tRNA links to Rfam database...	0.98	0.95	1.00	21	1087	0	0	0	0	1
3A3A_A	tRNA-Sec links to Rfam database...	0.97	0.93	1.00	28	1472	0	0	0	0	2
3ADB_C	-	0.98	0.97	1.00	32	1787	1	0	0	1	1
3GCA_A	-	0.84	0.71	1.00	5	153	0	0	0	0	2
3GX2_A	SAM links to Rfam database...	0.56	0.57	0.57	16	1421	13	4	8	1	12
3IVN_B	Purine links to Rfam database...	0.91	0.83	1.00	19	884	0	0	0	0	4
3IWN_A	c-di-GMP-I links to Rfam database...	0.21	0.21	0.24	6	1447	19	2	17	0	22
3J0L_a	-	0.21	0.18	0.29	2	404	6	3	2	1	9
3JYV_7	tRNA links to Rfam database...	-0.02	0.00	0.00	0	1091	20	4	16	0	20
3LA5_A	Purine links to Rfam database...	0.91	0.84	1.00	21	933	0	0	0	0	4
3NKB_B	-	0.42	0.42	0.44	8	717	10	2	8	0	11
3RKF_A	Purine links to Rfam database...	0.91	0.83	1.00	20	846	0	0	0	0	4
3SD1_A	THF links to Rfam database...	0.82	0.83	0.83	24	1504	5	1	4	0	5

Total Scores
MCC	0.647
Average MCC ± 95% Confidence Intervals	0.645 ± 0.141
Sensitivity	0.636
Positive Predictive Value	0.674
Nr of predictions	17

RNA Chain	Rfam family	MCC	SENS	PPV	TP	TN	FP	FP CONTRA	FP INCONS	FP COMP	FN
2KFC_A	-	0.79	0.63	1.00	5	231	0	0	0	0	3
2LC8_A	GP_knot1 links to Rfam database...	0.47	0.44	0.53	8	513	7	0	7	0	10
2RP0_A	-	0.84	0.71	1.00	5	111	0	0	0	0	2
2ZZN_D	tRNA links to Rfam database...	0.93	0.95	0.91	21	961	2	2	0	0	1
3A2K_C	tRNA links to Rfam database...	0.49	0.55	0.46	12	1082	14	3	11	0	10
3A3A_A	tRNA-Sec links to Rfam database...	0.93	0.87	1.00	26	1474	0	0	0	0	4
3ADB_C	-	0.63	0.64	0.64	21	1786	12	1	11	0	12
3GCA_A	-	0.84	0.71	1.00	5	153	0	0	0	0	2
3GX2_A	SAM links to Rfam database...	0.56	0.57	0.57	16	1421	13	4	8	1	12
3IVN_B	Purine links to Rfam database...	0.81	0.78	0.86	18	882	3	2	1	0	5
3IWN_A	c-di-GMP-I links to Rfam database...	0.81	0.79	0.85	22	1446	5	1	3	1	6
3J0L_a	-	0.18	0.18	0.22	2	402	8	3	4	1	9
3JYV_7	tRNA links to Rfam database...	-0.02	0.00	0.00	0	1089	22	4	18	0	20
3LA5_A	Purine links to Rfam database...	0.91	0.84	1.00	21	933	0	0	0	0	4
3NKB_B	-	0.41	0.42	0.42	8	716	11	3	8	0	11
3RKF_A	Purine links to Rfam database...	0.82	0.79	0.86	19	844	3	1	2	0	5
3SD1_A	THF links to Rfam database...	0.55	0.55	0.57	16	1505	12	4	8	0	13

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