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Metric	RNAalifold(20)		ProbKnot
MCC	0.683	>	0.562
Average MCC ± 95% Confidence Intervals	0.662 ± 0.120	>	0.533 ± 0.131
Sensitivity	0.603	>	0.600
Positive Predictive Value	0.779	>	0.532
Total TP	279	>	278
Total TN	62646	>	62481
Total FP	111	<	328
Total FP CONTRA	30	<	92
Total FP INCONS	49	<	153
Total FP COMP	32	<	83
Total FN	184	<	185
P-value	1.58287649515e-08

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

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	0.562
Average MCC ± 95% Confidence Intervals	0.533 ± 0.131
Sensitivity	0.600
Positive Predictive Value	0.532
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...	0.59	0.61	0.57	58	25435	49	17	26	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...	0.46	0.53	0.42	10	944	14	6	8	0	9
3J3E_8	5_8S_rRNA links to Rfam database...	-0.01	0.00	0.00	0	2718	37	6	18	13	15
3J3F_8	5_8S_rRNA links to Rfam database...	0.39	0.47	0.33	9	4734	38	9	9	20	10
3NPB_A	SAM links to Rfam database...	0.79	0.73	0.87	27	2247	9	0	4	5	10
3O58_3	5_8S_rRNA links to Rfam database...	0.38	0.50	0.29	11	4726	42	10	17	15	11
3PDR_A	ykoK links to Rfam database...	0.88	0.92	0.85	46	4786	10	5	3	2	4
3RKF_A	Purine links to Rfam database...	0.87	0.83	0.91	20	844	2	2	0	0	4
3SD1_A	THF links to Rfam database...	0.66	0.69	0.65	20	1502	11	6	5	0	9
3ZEX_C	5_8S_rRNA links to Rfam database...	0.48	0.52	0.45	15	5341	22	4	14	4	14
4A1C_2	5_8S_rRNA links to Rfam database...	0.17	0.25	0.13	5	4477	49	13	21	15	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...	0.81	0.73	0.92	11	460	1	1	0	0	4
4ENC_A	crcB links to Rfam database...	0.52	0.53	0.53	8	481	8	0	7	1	7
4FRG_B	AdoCbl-variant links to Rfam database...	0.38	0.38	0.41	9	1180	13	6	7	0	15

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