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Metric	PPfold(20)		RNAfold
MCC	0.668	>	0.468
Average MCC ± 95% Confidence Intervals	0.643 ± 0.170	>	0.482 ± 0.156
Sensitivity	0.614	>	0.506
Positive Predictive Value	0.733	>	0.444
Total TP	159	>	131
Total TN	25369	>	25291
Total FP	79	<	229
Total FP CONTRA	14	<	49
Total FP INCONS	44	<	115
Total FP COMP	21	<	65
Total FN	100	<	128
P-value	5.64212886735e-09

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

Total Scores
MCC	0.668
Average MCC ± 95% Confidence Intervals	0.643 ± 0.170
Sensitivity	0.614
Positive Predictive Value	0.733
Nr of predictions	12

RNA Chain	Rfam family	MCC	SENS	PPV	TP	TN	FP	FP CONTRA	FP INCONS	FP COMP	FN
3J20_0	tRNA links to Rfam database...	0.95	0.95	0.95	20	1198	1	1	0	0	1
3J3D_C	tRNA links to Rfam database...	0.87	0.89	0.85	17	948	3	3	0	0	2
3J3E_8	5_8S_rRNA links to Rfam database...	0.21	0.20	0.23	3	2729	13	2	8	3	12
3J3F_8	5_8S_rRNA links to Rfam database...	0.37	0.37	0.37	7	4742	20	5	7	8	12
3RKF_A	Purine links to Rfam database...	0.86	0.79	0.95	19	846	1	0	1	0	5
3SD1_A	THF links to Rfam database...	0.81	0.76	0.88	22	1508	3	2	1	0	7
3ZEX_C	5_8S_rRNA links to Rfam database...	0.38	0.31	0.47	9	5355	14	0	10	4	20
4A1C_2	5_8S_rRNA links to Rfam database...	0.27	0.25	0.29	5	4499	16	1	11	4	15
4AOB_A	SAM links to Rfam database...	0.87	0.83	0.92	24	1411	4	0	2	2	5
4ENB_A	crcB links to Rfam database...	0.63	0.47	0.88	7	464	1	0	1	0	8
4ENC_A	crcB links to Rfam database...	0.64	0.53	0.80	8	486	2	0	2	0	7
4FRG_B	AdoCbl-variant links to Rfam database...	0.84	0.75	0.95	18	1183	1	0	1	0	6

Total Scores
MCC	0.468
Average MCC ± 95% Confidence Intervals	0.482 ± 0.156
Sensitivity	0.506
Positive Predictive Value	0.444
Nr of predictions	12

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
3ZEX_C	5_8S_rRNA links to Rfam database...	0.30	0.34	0.26	10	5336	43	5	23	15	19
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.