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Metric	CMfinder(20)		RNAfold
MCC	0.521	>	0.487
Average MCC ± 95% Confidence Intervals	0.514 ± 0.127	>	0.449 ± 0.143
Sensitivity	0.366	<	0.431
Positive Predictive Value	0.748	>	0.557
Total TP	163	<	192
Total TN	67962	>	67835
Total FP	61	<	181
Total FP CONTRA	4	<	10
Total FP INCONS	51	<	143
Total FP COMP	6	<	28
Total FN	282	>	253
P-value	1.59816551561e-08

Comparison of performance of CMfinder(20) and RNAfold. 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 CMfinder(20) and RNAfold).
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 CMfinder(20) and RNAfold).
Comparison of average Matthews Correlation Coefficients (MCCs) for CMfinder(20) and RNAfold. 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 CMfinder(20) and RNAfold).

Total Scores
MCC	0.521
Average MCC ± 95% Confidence Intervals	0.514 ± 0.127
Sensitivity	0.366
Positive Predictive Value	0.748
Nr of predictions	11

RNA Chain	Rfam family	MCC	SENS	PPV	TP	TN	FP	FP CONTRA	FP INCONS	FP COMP	FN
3J20_0	tRNA links to Rfam database...	0.75	0.57	1.00	17	2833	1	0	0	1	13
3J2L_3	5S_rRNA links to Rfam database...	0.45	0.32	0.63	17	7848	11	1	9	1	36
3J3D_C	tRNA links to Rfam database...	0.76	0.61	0.94	17	2757	1	0	1	0	11
3J3E_8	5_8S_rRNA links to Rfam database...	0.10	0.06	0.17	2	7491	10	1	9	0	31
3J3E_7	5S_rRNA links to Rfam database...	0.62	0.46	0.83	25	7110	5	1	4	0	29
3J3F_8	5_8S_rRNA links to Rfam database...	0.45	0.33	0.60	12	12226	8	1	7	0	24
3J3F_7	5S_rRNA links to Rfam database...	0.66	0.52	0.84	26	7229	6	0	5	1	24
3J3V_B	5S_rRNA links to Rfam database...	0.38	0.21	0.71	12	7004	5	0	5	0	45
3ZEX_D	5S_rRNA links to Rfam database...	0.58	0.39	0.86	19	6999	3	0	3	0	30
3ZND_W	tRNA links to Rfam database...	0.45	0.39	0.53	9	2986	11	0	8	3	14
4FRG_B	AdoCbl-variant links to Rfam database...	0.47	0.22	1.00	7	3479	0	0	0	0	25

Total Scores
MCC	0.487
Average MCC ± 95% Confidence Intervals	0.449 ± 0.143
Sensitivity	0.431
Positive Predictive Value	0.557
Nr of predictions	11

RNA Chain	Rfam family	MCC	SENS	PPV	TP	TN	FP	FP CONTRA	FP INCONS	FP COMP	FN
3J20_0	tRNA links to Rfam database...	0.43	0.40	0.48	12	2825	14	0	13	1	18
3J2L_3	5S_rRNA links to Rfam database...	0.62	0.53	0.74	28	7837	12	0	10	2	25
3J3D_C	tRNA links to Rfam database...	0.28	0.25	0.32	7	2753	15	1	14	0	21
3J3E_8	5_8S_rRNA links to Rfam database...	0.16	0.15	0.19	5	7476	31	2	20	9	28
3J3E_7	5S_rRNA links to Rfam database...	0.58	0.48	0.70	26	7103	11	1	10	0	28
3J3F_8	5_8S_rRNA links to Rfam database...	0.30	0.31	0.31	11	12210	39	4	21	14	25
3J3F_7	5S_rRNA links to Rfam database...	0.73	0.64	0.84	32	7222	7	0	6	1	18
3J3V_B	5S_rRNA links to Rfam database...	0.54	0.44	0.68	25	6984	12	1	11	0	32
3ZEX_D	5S_rRNA links to Rfam database...	0.77	0.65	0.91	32	6986	3	0	3	0	17
3ZND_W	tRNA links to Rfam database...	0.20	0.22	0.19	5	2977	22	1	20	1	18
4FRG_B	AdoCbl-variant links to Rfam database...	0.32	0.28	0.38	9	3462	15	0	15	0	23

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