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Metric	RNAalifold(20)		RNAsubopt
MCC	0.733	>	0.564
Average MCC ± 95% Confidence Intervals	0.724 ± 0.103	>	0.551 ± 0.123
Sensitivity	0.654	>	0.596
Positive Predictive Value	0.826	>	0.542
Total TP	380	>	346
Total TN	68069	>	67891
Total FP	115	<	378
Total FP CONTRA	31	<	100
Total FP INCONS	49	<	192
Total FP COMP	35	<	86
Total FN	201	<	235
P-value	5.02343278931e-08

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

Total Scores
MCC	0.733
Average MCC ± 95% Confidence Intervals	0.724 ± 0.103
Sensitivity	0.654
Positive Predictive Value	0.826
Nr of predictions	21

RNA Chain	Rfam family	MCC	SENS	PPV	TP	TN	FP	FP CONTRA	FP INCONS	FP COMP	FN
3A2K_C	tRNA links to Rfam database...	0.98	0.95	1.00	21	1087	0	0	0	0	1
3GX2_A	SAM links to Rfam database...	0.92	0.86	1.00	24	1425	1	0	0	1	4
3IVN_B	Purine links to Rfam database...	0.86	0.78	0.95	18	884	1	1	0	0	5
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
3JYV_7	tRNA links to Rfam database...	0.97	0.95	1.00	19	1092	2	0	0	2	1
3LA5_A	Purine links to Rfam database...	0.87	0.76	1.00	19	935	0	0	0	0	6
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	0.564
Average MCC ± 95% Confidence Intervals	0.551 ± 0.123
Sensitivity	0.596
Positive Predictive Value	0.542
Nr of predictions	21

RNA Chain	Rfam family	MCC	SENS	PPV	TP	TN	FP	FP CONTRA	FP INCONS	FP COMP	FN
3A2K_C	tRNA links to Rfam database...	0.47	0.50	0.46	11	1084	13	3	10	0	11
3GX2_A	SAM links to Rfam database...	0.53	0.54	0.54	15	1421	14	4	9	1	13
3IVN_B	Purine links to Rfam database...	0.88	0.78	1.00	18	885	0	0	0	0	5
3IZ4_A	tmRNA links to Rfam database...	0.56	0.60	0.53	57	25429	54	26	24	4	38
3J20_0	tRNA links to Rfam database...	0.51	0.57	0.48	12	1194	14	2	11	1	9
3J3D_C	tRNA links to Rfam database...	0.65	0.74	0.58	14	944	10	5	5	0	5
3J3E_8	5_8S_rRNA links to Rfam database...	0.25	0.33	0.20	5	2717	32	7	13	12	10
3J3F_8	5_8S_rRNA links to Rfam database...	0.35	0.47	0.26	9	4726	42	13	13	16	10
3JYV_7	tRNA links to Rfam database...	-0.02	0.00	0.00	0	1090	21	4	17	0	20
3LA5_A	Purine links to Rfam database...	0.91	0.84	1.00	21	933	0	0	0	0	4
3NPB_A	SAM links to Rfam database...	0.84	0.78	0.91	29	2246	8	0	3	5	8
3O58_3	5_8S_rRNA links to Rfam database...	0.41	0.50	0.34	11	4732	35	6	15	14	11
3PDR_A	ykoK links to Rfam database...	0.90	0.90	0.90	45	4790	7	2	3	2	5
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...	0.73	0.72	0.75	21	1505	7	4	3	0	8
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...	0.18	0.25	0.14	5	4481	43	13	17	13	15
4AOB_A	SAM links to Rfam database...	0.62	0.62	0.64	18	1409	11	4	6	1	11
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...	0.36	0.33	0.42	5	484	7	0	7	0	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.