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Metric	RSpredict(20)		RDfolder
MCC	0.760	>	0.641
Average MCC ± 95% Confidence Intervals	0.739 ± 0.146	>	0.633 ± 0.192
Sensitivity	0.678	>	0.585
Positive Predictive Value	0.863	>	0.718
Total TP	183	>	158
Total TN	12304	>	12296
Total FP	32	<	65
Total FP CONTRA	13	<	14
Total FP INCONS	16	<	48
Total FP COMP	3	=	3
Total FN	87	<	112
P-value	2.28439804626e-08

Comparison of performance of RSpredict(20) and RDfolder. 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 RSpredict(20) and RDfolder).
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 RSpredict(20) and RDfolder).
Comparison of average Matthews Correlation Coefficients (MCCs) for RSpredict(20) and RDfolder. 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 RSpredict(20) and RDfolder).

Total Scores
MCC	0.760
Average MCC ± 95% Confidence Intervals	0.739 ± 0.146
Sensitivity	0.678
Positive Predictive Value	0.863
Nr of predictions	12

RNA Chain	Rfam family	MCC	SENS	PPV	TP	TN	FP	FP CONTRA	FP INCONS	FP COMP	FN
3A2K_C	tRNA links to Rfam database...	0.88	0.86	0.90	19	1087	2	0	2	0	3
3GX2_A	SAM links to Rfam database...	0.40	0.21	0.75	6	1441	2	1	1	0	22
3IVN_B	Purine links to Rfam database...	0.91	0.87	0.95	20	882	1	1	0	0	3
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...	0.82	0.84	0.80	16	948	4	3	1	0	3
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...	0.89	0.80	1.00	20	934	0	0	0	0	5
3RKF_A	Purine links to Rfam database...	0.91	0.88	0.95	21	844	1	1	0	0	3
3SD1_A	THF links to Rfam database...	0.82	0.86	0.78	25	1501	7	5	2	0	4
4AOB_A	SAM links to Rfam database...	0.33	0.21	0.55	6	1426	5	1	4	0	23
4ENB_A	crcB links to Rfam database...	0.54	0.40	0.75	6	464	2	0	2	0	9
4ENC_A	crcB links to Rfam database...	0.51	0.40	0.67	6	487	3	0	3	0	9

Total Scores
MCC	0.641
Average MCC ± 95% Confidence Intervals	0.633 ± 0.192
Sensitivity	0.585
Positive Predictive Value	0.718
Nr of predictions	12

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...	0.60	0.57	0.64	16	1424	10	2	7	1	12
3IVN_B	Purine links to Rfam database...	0.91	0.83	1.00	19	884	0	0	0	0	4
3J20_0	tRNA links to Rfam database...	0.82	0.76	0.89	16	1201	3	1	1	1	5
3J3D_C	tRNA links to Rfam database...	0.76	0.79	0.75	15	948	5	3	2	0	4
3JYV_7	tRNA links to Rfam database...	-0.02	0.00	0.00	0	1091	20	4	16	0	20
3LA5_A	Purine links to Rfam database...	0.91	0.84	1.00	21	933	0	0	0	0	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...	0.35	0.24	0.54	7	1520	6	1	5	0	22
4AOB_A	SAM links to Rfam database...	0.42	0.38	0.48	11	1414	13	3	9	1	18
4ENB_A	crcB links to Rfam database...	0.48	0.40	0.60	6	462	4	0	4	0	9
4ENC_A	crcB links to Rfam database...	0.48	0.40	0.60	6	486	4	0	4	0	9

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