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Metric	RNAalifold(20)		Fold
MCC	0.683	>	0.526
Average MCC ± 95% Confidence Intervals	0.662 ± 0.120	>	0.476 ± 0.140
Sensitivity	0.603	>	0.562
Positive Predictive Value	0.779	>	0.499
Total TP	279	>	260
Total TN	62646	>	62483
Total FP	111	<	348
Total FP CONTRA	30	<	86
Total FP INCONS	49	<	175
Total FP COMP	32	<	87
Total FN	184	<	203
P-value	2.89169006118e-08

Comparison of performance of RNAalifold(20) and Fold. 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 RNAalifold(20) and Fold).
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 RNAalifold(20) and Fold).
Comparison of average Matthews Correlation Coefficients (MCCs) for RNAalifold(20) and Fold. 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 RNAalifold(20) and Fold).

Total Scores
MCC	0.683
Average MCC ± 95% Confidence Intervals	0.662 ± 0.120
Sensitivity	0.603
Positive Predictive Value	0.779
Nr of predictions	16

RNA Chain	Rfam family	MCC	SENS	PPV	TP	TN	FP	FP CONTRA	FP INCONS	FP COMP	FN
3IZ4_A	tmRNA links to Rfam database...	0.65	0.48	0.87	46	25483	15	4	3	8	49
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...	0.34	0.33	0.36	5	2728	9	3	6	0	10
3J3F_8	5_8S_rRNA links to Rfam database...	0.54	0.58	0.50	11	4739	20	4	7	9	8
3NPB_A	SAM links to Rfam database...	0.75	0.57	1.00	21	2257	4	0	0	4	16
3O58_3	5_8S_rRNA links to Rfam database...	0.42	0.36	0.50	8	4748	9	3	5	1	14
3PDR_A	ykoK links to Rfam database...	0.92	0.88	0.96	44	4794	3	1	1	1	6
3RKF_A	Purine links to Rfam database...	0.81	0.71	0.94	17	848	1	0	1	0	7
3SD1_A	THF links to Rfam database...	0.84	0.86	0.83	25	1503	5	4	1	0	4
3ZEX_C	5_8S_rRNA links to Rfam database...	0.46	0.41	0.52	12	5351	16	2	9	5	17
4A1C_2	5_8S_rRNA links to Rfam database...	0.22	0.25	0.19	5	4490	23	5	16	2	15
4AOB_A	SAM links to Rfam database...	0.85	0.72	1.00	21	1416	2	0	0	2	8
4ENB_A	crcB links to Rfam database...	0.51	0.27	1.00	4	468	0	0	0	0	11
4ENC_A	crcB links to Rfam database...	0.63	0.40	1.00	6	490	0	0	0	0	9
4FRG_B	AdoCbl-variant links to Rfam database...	0.84	0.71	1.00	17	1185	0	0	0	0	7

Total Scores
MCC	0.526
Average MCC ± 95% Confidence Intervals	0.476 ± 0.140
Sensitivity	0.562
Positive Predictive Value	0.499
Nr of predictions	16

RNA Chain	Rfam family	MCC	SENS	PPV	TP	TN	FP	FP CONTRA	FP INCONS	FP COMP	FN
3IZ4_A	tmRNA links to Rfam database...	0.60	0.61	0.59	58	25437	47	16	25	6	37
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...	0.47	0.53	0.43	10	945	13	5	8	0	9
3J3E_8	5_8S_rRNA links to Rfam database...	-0.01	0.00	0.00	0	2719	34	5	18	11	15
3J3F_8	5_8S_rRNA links to Rfam database...	0.32	0.42	0.25	8	4729	41	12	12	17	11
3NPB_A	SAM links to Rfam database...	0.77	0.73	0.82	27	2245	11	0	6	5	10
3O58_3	5_8S_rRNA links to Rfam database...	0.39	0.50	0.31	11	4728	41	9	16	16	11
3PDR_A	ykoK links to Rfam database...	0.93	0.92	0.94	46	4791	5	1	2	2	4
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...	0.68	0.69	0.69	20	1504	9	4	5	0	9
3ZEX_C	5_8S_rRNA links to Rfam database...	0.28	0.34	0.23	10	5330	46	9	25	12	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...	0.37	0.33	0.45	5	461	7	0	6	1	10
4ENC_A	crcB links to Rfam database...	0.36	0.33	0.42	5	484	8	0	7	1	10
4FRG_B	AdoCbl-variant links to Rfam database...	0.22	0.25	0.23	6	1176	20	7	13	0	18

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