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Metric	RNASampler(20)		IPknot
MCC	0.628	>	0.536
Average MCC ± 95% Confidence Intervals	0.633 ± 0.169	>	0.541 ± 0.166
Sensitivity	0.583	>	0.525
Positive Predictive Value	0.683	>	0.557
Total TP	151	>	136
Total TN	25365	>	25342
Total FP	107	<	145
Total FP CONTRA	21	<	37
Total FP INCONS	49	<	71
Total FP COMP	37	=	37
Total FN	108	<	123
P-value	8.5281770229e-09

Comparison of performance of RNASampler(20) and IPknot. 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 RNASampler(20) and IPknot).
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 RNASampler(20) and IPknot).
Comparison of average Matthews Correlation Coefficients (MCCs) for RNASampler(20) and IPknot. 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 RNASampler(20) and IPknot).

Total Scores
MCC	0.628
Average MCC ± 95% Confidence Intervals	0.633 ± 0.169
Sensitivity	0.583
Positive Predictive Value	0.683
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...	0.90	0.90	0.90	19	1198	3	1	1	1	2
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...	0.19	0.20	0.19	3	2726	21	5	8	8	12
3J3F_8	5_8S_rRNA links to Rfam database...	0.43	0.47	0.39	9	4738	20	6	8	6	10
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...	0.81	0.69	0.95	20	1512	1	0	1	0	9
3ZEX_C	5_8S_rRNA links to Rfam database...	0.35	0.31	0.39	9	5351	21	3	11	7	20
4A1C_2	5_8S_rRNA links to Rfam database...	0.24	0.25	0.24	5	4495	30	3	13	14	15
4AOB_A	SAM links to Rfam database...	0.70	0.59	0.85	17	1417	4	0	3	1	12
4ENB_A	crcB links to Rfam database...	0.68	0.47	1.00	7	465	0	0	0	0	8
4ENC_A	crcB links to Rfam database...	0.85	0.73	1.00	11	485	0	0	0	0	4
4FRG_B	AdoCbl-variant links to Rfam database...	0.64	0.54	0.76	13	1185	4	0	4	0	11

Total Scores
MCC	0.536
Average MCC ± 95% Confidence Intervals	0.541 ± 0.166
Sensitivity	0.525
Positive Predictive Value	0.557
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...	0.54	0.57	0.52	12	1196	12	3	8	1	9
3J3D_C	tRNA links to Rfam database...	0.52	0.53	0.53	10	949	9	3	6	0	9
3J3E_8	5_8S_rRNA links to Rfam database...	-0.01	0.00	0.00	0	2723	25	5	14	6	15
3J3F_8	5_8S_rRNA links to Rfam database...	0.36	0.47	0.28	9	4729	40	11	12	17	10
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...	0.74	0.69	0.80	20	1508	5	0	5	0	9
3ZEX_C	5_8S_rRNA links to Rfam database...	0.51	0.34	0.77	10	5361	7	1	2	4	19
4A1C_2	5_8S_rRNA links to Rfam database...	0.23	0.25	0.22	5	4493	26	8	10	8	15
4AOB_A	SAM links to Rfam database...	0.50	0.48	0.54	14	1411	13	3	9	1	15
4ENB_A	crcB links to Rfam database...	0.85	0.73	1.00	11	461	0	0	0	0	4
4ENC_A	crcB links to Rfam database...	0.59	0.53	0.67	8	484	4	0	4	0	7
4FRG_B	AdoCbl-variant links to Rfam database...	0.75	0.71	0.81	17	1181	4	3	1	0	7

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