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Metric	Multilign(20)		RNAfold
MCC	0.517	>	0.492
Average MCC ± 95% Confidence Intervals	0.513 ± 0.207	>	0.498 ± 0.168
Sensitivity	0.530	>	0.526
Positive Predictive Value	0.515	>	0.471
Total TP	122	>	121
Total TN	19975	>	19955
Total FP	139	<	186
Total FP CONTRA	39	<	44
Total FP INCONS	76	<	92
Total FP COMP	24	<	50
Total FN	108	<	109
P-value	6.52786411104e-07

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

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

Total Scores
MCC	0.492
Average MCC ± 95% Confidence Intervals	0.498 ± 0.168
Sensitivity	0.526
Positive Predictive Value	0.471
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...	0.51	0.57	0.48	12	1194	14	3	10	1	9
3J3D_C	tRNA links to Rfam database...	0.33	0.37	0.32	7	946	15	3	12	0	12
3J3E_8	5_8S_rRNA links to Rfam database...	0.25	0.33	0.20	5	2717	31	7	13	11	10
3J3F_8	5_8S_rRNA links to Rfam database...	0.33	0.42	0.27	8	4731	42	10	12	20	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...	0.77	0.76	0.79	22	1505	6	4	2	0	7
4A1C_2	5_8S_rRNA links to Rfam database...	0.19	0.25	0.15	5	4482	43	11	18	14	15
4AOB_A	SAM links to Rfam database...	0.60	0.59	0.63	17	1410	11	4	6	1	12
4ENB_A	crcB links to Rfam database...	0.85	0.73	1.00	11	461	2	0	0	2	4
4ENC_A	crcB links to Rfam database...	0.37	0.33	0.45	5	485	7	0	6	1	10
4FRG_B	AdoCbl-variant links to Rfam database...	0.36	0.38	0.38	9	1178	15	2	13	0	15

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