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Metric	CentroidAlifold(20)		RNAalifold(seed)
MCC	0.612	>	0.560
Average MCC ± 95% Confidence Intervals	0.583 ± 0.109	>	0.544 ± 0.087
Sensitivity	0.429	>	0.339
Positive Predictive Value	0.877	<	0.928
Total TP	328	>	259
Total TN	186565	<	186660
Total FP	56	>	28
Total FP CONTRA	9	>	7
Total FP INCONS	37	>	13
Total FP COMP	10	>	8
Total FN	437	<	506
P-value	2.16131455263e-08

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

Total Scores
MCC	0.612
Average MCC ± 95% Confidence Intervals	0.583 ± 0.109
Sensitivity	0.429
Positive Predictive Value	0.877
Nr of predictions	18

RNA Chain	Rfam family	MCC	SENS	PPV	TP	TN	FP	FP CONTRA	FP INCONS	FP COMP	FN
3GX2_A	SAM links to Rfam database...	0.77	0.60	1.00	24	4347	1	0	0	1	16
3IVN_B	Purine links to Rfam database...	0.78	0.65	0.95	20	2325	1	1	0	0	11
3IZ4_A	tmRNA links to Rfam database...	0.58	0.39	0.88	51	70818	7	3	4	0	81
3J3E_8	5_8S_rRNA links to Rfam database...	0.00	0.00	0.00	0	7499	4	0	4	0	33
3J3F_8	5_8S_rRNA links to Rfam database...	0.39	0.25	0.60	9	12231	6	1	5	0	27
3JYX_4	5_8S_rRNA links to Rfam database...	0.39	0.27	0.56	9	12230	9	0	7	2	24
3LA5_A	Purine links to Rfam database...	0.78	0.62	1.00	21	2464	0	0	0	0	13
3NPB_A	SAM links to Rfam database...	0.70	0.54	0.89	25	6993	5	1	2	2	21
3O58_3	5_8S_rRNA links to Rfam database...	0.54	0.31	0.92	11	12391	1	0	1	0	24
3PDR_A	ykoK links to Rfam database...	0.76	0.63	0.94	45	12832	5	0	3	2	27
3RKF_A	Purine links to Rfam database...	0.72	0.53	1.00	18	2193	0	0	0	0	16
3SD1_A	THF links to Rfam database...	0.71	0.52	0.96	22	3893	1	0	1	0	20
3ZEX_C	5_8S_rRNA links to Rfam database...	0.38	0.21	0.69	11	14180	5	1	4	0	41
4A1C_2	5_8S_rRNA links to Rfam database...	0.26	0.15	0.45	5	11770	8	1	5	2	28
4AOB_A	SAM links to Rfam database...	0.75	0.57	1.00	24	4347	1	0	0	1	18
4ENB_A	crcB links to Rfam database...	0.69	0.47	1.00	9	1266	0	0	0	0	10
4ENC_A	crcB links to Rfam database...	0.60	0.37	1.00	7	1319	0	0	0	0	12
4FRG_B	AdoCbl-variant links to Rfam database...	0.69	0.53	0.89	17	3467	2	1	1	0	15

Total Scores
MCC	0.560
Average MCC ± 95% Confidence Intervals	0.544 ± 0.087
Sensitivity	0.339
Positive Predictive Value	0.928
Nr of predictions	18

RNA Chain	Rfam family	MCC	SENS	PPV	TP	TN	FP	FP CONTRA	FP INCONS	FP COMP	FN
3GX2_A	SAM links to Rfam database...	0.74	0.55	1.00	22	4349	1	0	0	1	18
3IVN_B	Purine links to Rfam database...	0.61	0.48	0.79	15	2327	4	2	2	0	16
3IZ4_A	tmRNA links to Rfam database...	0.42	0.21	0.85	28	70843	5	1	4	0	104
3J3E_8	5_8S_rRNA links to Rfam database...	0.00	0.00	0.00	0	7503	0	0	0	0	33
3J3F_8	5_8S_rRNA links to Rfam database...	0.50	0.25	1.00	9	12237	0	0	0	0	27
3JYX_4	5_8S_rRNA links to Rfam database...	0.46	0.21	1.00	7	12239	2	0	0	2	26
3LA5_A	Purine links to Rfam database...	0.63	0.47	0.84	16	2466	3	1	2	0	18
3NPB_A	SAM links to Rfam database...	0.66	0.48	0.92	22	6997	3	1	1	1	24
3O58_3	5_8S_rRNA links to Rfam database...	0.51	0.26	1.00	9	12394	0	0	0	0	26
3PDR_A	ykoK links to Rfam database...	0.68	0.46	1.00	33	12847	1	0	0	1	39
3RKF_A	Purine links to Rfam database...	0.63	0.47	0.84	16	2192	3	1	2	0	18
3SD1_A	THF links to Rfam database...	0.58	0.40	0.85	17	3896	3	1	2	0	25
3ZEX_C	5_8S_rRNA links to Rfam database...	0.42	0.17	1.00	9	14187	0	0	0	0	43
4A1C_2	5_8S_rRNA links to Rfam database...	0.39	0.15	1.00	5	11776	2	0	0	2	28
4AOB_A	SAM links to Rfam database...	0.72	0.52	1.00	22	4349	1	0	0	1	20
4ENB_A	crcB links to Rfam database...	0.56	0.32	1.00	6	1269	0	0	0	0	13
4ENC_A	crcB links to Rfam database...	0.56	0.32	1.00	6	1320	0	0	0	0	13
4FRG_B	AdoCbl-variant links to Rfam database...	0.73	0.53	1.00	17	3469	0	0	0	0	15

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