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Metric	RNAalifold(seed)		Afold
MCC	0.561	>	0.552
Average MCC ± 95% Confidence Intervals	0.537 ± 0.167	<	0.623 ± 0.170
Sensitivity	0.400	<	0.600
Positive Predictive Value	0.791	>	0.513
Total TP	163	<	245
Total TN	69282	>	69010
Total FP	57	<	302
Total FP CONTRA	23	<	101
Total FP INCONS	20	<	132
Total FP COMP	14	<	69
Total FN	245	>	163
P-value	1.32823942078e-06

Comparison of performance of RNAalifold(seed) and Afold. 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(seed) and Afold).
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(seed) and Afold).
Comparison of average Matthews Correlation Coefficients (MCCs) for RNAalifold(seed) and Afold. 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(seed) and Afold).

Total Scores
MCC	0.561
Average MCC ± 95% Confidence Intervals	0.537 ± 0.167
Sensitivity	0.400
Positive Predictive Value	0.791
Nr of predictions	13

RNA Chain	Rfam family	MCC	SENS	PPV	TP	TN	FP	FP CONTRA	FP INCONS	FP COMP	FN
2LC8_A	GP_knot1 links to Rfam database...	-0.03	0.00	0.00	0	516	12	0	12	0	18
3A3A_A	tRNA-Sec links to Rfam database...	0.79	0.63	1.00	19	1481	0	0	0	0	11
3IVN_B	Purine links to Rfam database...	0.71	0.65	0.79	15	884	4	2	2	0	8
3IYQ_A	tmRNA links to Rfam database...	0.36	0.27	0.48	14	22411	19	13	2	4	37
3IZ4_A	tmRNA links to Rfam database...	0.46	0.26	0.81	25	25505	8	6	0	2	70
3J3E_8	5_8S_rRNA links to Rfam database...	0.00	0.00	0.00	0	2742	0	0	0	0	15
3LA5_A	Purine links to Rfam database...	0.73	0.64	0.84	16	935	3	1	2	0	9
3NPB_A	SAM links to Rfam database...	0.77	0.59	1.00	22	2256	3	0	0	3	15
3O58_3	5_8S_rRNA links to Rfam database...	0.60	0.36	1.00	8	4756	1	0	0	1	14
3RKF_A	Purine links to Rfam database...	0.74	0.67	0.84	16	847	3	1	2	0	8
3W3S_B	tRNA-Sec links to Rfam database...	0.71	0.52	1.00	17	1972	2	0	0	2	16
4A1C_2	5_8S_rRNA links to Rfam database...	0.50	0.25	1.00	5	4511	2	0	0	2	15
4ENB_A	crcB links to Rfam database...	0.63	0.40	1.00	6	466	0	0	0	0	9

Total Scores
MCC	0.552
Average MCC ± 95% Confidence Intervals	0.623 ± 0.170
Sensitivity	0.600
Positive Predictive Value	0.513
Nr of predictions	13

RNA Chain	Rfam family	MCC	SENS	PPV	TP	TN	FP	FP CONTRA	FP INCONS	FP COMP	FN
2LC8_A	GP_knot1 links to Rfam database...	0.64	0.61	0.69	11	512	6	0	5	1	7
3A3A_A	tRNA-Sec links to Rfam database...	0.93	0.87	1.00	26	1474	0	0	0	0	4
3IVN_B	Purine links to Rfam database...	0.91	0.83	1.00	19	884	0	0	0	0	4
3IYQ_A	tmRNA links to Rfam database...	0.23	0.33	0.17	17	22339	97	47	37	13	34
3IZ4_A	tmRNA links to Rfam database...	0.52	0.57	0.48	54	25423	63	27	32	4	41
3J3E_8	5_8S_rRNA links to Rfam database...	0.26	0.33	0.21	5	2718	31	6	13	12	10
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...	0.82	0.73	0.93	27	2249	6	0	2	4	10
3O58_3	5_8S_rRNA links to Rfam database...	0.41	0.50	0.34	11	4732	38	6	15	17	11
3RKF_A	Purine links to Rfam database...	0.91	0.83	1.00	20	846	0	0	0	0	4
3W3S_B	tRNA-Sec links to Rfam database...	0.55	0.55	0.56	18	1957	15	4	10	1	15
4A1C_2	5_8S_rRNA links to Rfam database...	0.19	0.25	0.15	5	4483	43	11	17	15	15
4ENB_A	crcB links to Rfam database...	0.81	0.73	0.92	11	460	3	0	1	2	4

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