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Metric	RNAalifold(20)		RDfolder
MCC	0.744	>	0.563
Average MCC ± 95% Confidence Intervals	0.725 ± 0.066	>	0.576 ± 0.148
Sensitivity	0.590	>	0.447
Positive Predictive Value	0.944	>	0.718
Total TP	272	>	206
Total TN	42523	<	42524
Total FP	22	<	90
Total FP CONTRA	7	<	9
Total FP INCONS	9	<	72
Total FP COMP	6	<	9
Total FN	189	<	255
P-value	1.52299983238e-08

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

Total Scores
MCC	0.744
Average MCC ± 95% Confidence Intervals	0.725 ± 0.066
Sensitivity	0.590
Positive Predictive Value	0.944
Nr of predictions	16

RNA Chain	Rfam family	MCC	SENS	PPV	TP	TN	FP	FP CONTRA	FP INCONS	FP COMP	FN
2KDQ_B	mir-TAR links to Rfam database...	0.60	0.36	1.00	4	402	0	0	0	0	7
2WRQ_Y	tRNA links to Rfam database...	0.57	0.59	0.56	10	2832	11	5	3	3	7
2XQD_Y	tRNA links to Rfam database...	0.88	0.78	1.00	21	2829	0	0	0	0	6
3A2K_C	tRNA links to Rfam database...	0.86	0.75	1.00	21	2905	0	0	0	0	7
3AMU_B	tRNA links to Rfam database...	0.86	0.74	1.00	20	2983	1	0	0	1	7
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...	0.74	0.58	0.95	18	2327	1	1	0	0	13
3J20_0	tRNA links to Rfam database...	0.84	0.70	1.00	21	2829	0	0	0	0	9
3J3D_C	tRNA links to Rfam database...	0.80	0.68	0.95	19	2755	1	0	1	0	9
3JYV_7	tRNA links to Rfam database...	0.81	0.66	1.00	21	2829	0	0	0	0	11
3LA5_A	Purine links to Rfam database...	0.75	0.56	1.00	19	2466	0	0	0	0	15
3RKF_A	Purine links to Rfam database...	0.68	0.50	0.94	17	2193	1	0	1	0	17
3SD1_A	THF links to Rfam database...	0.70	0.60	0.83	25	3886	5	1	4	0	17
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...	0.46	0.21	1.00	4	1271	0	0	0	0	15
4ENC_A	crcB links to Rfam database...	0.56	0.32	1.00	6	1320	0	0	0	0	13

Total Scores
MCC	0.563
Average MCC ± 95% Confidence Intervals	0.576 ± 0.148
Sensitivity	0.447
Positive Predictive Value	0.718
Nr of predictions	16

RNA Chain	Rfam family	MCC	SENS	PPV	TP	TN	FP	FP CONTRA	FP INCONS	FP COMP	FN
2KDQ_B	mir-TAR links to Rfam database...	0.95	0.91	1.00	10	396	0	0	0	0	1
2WRQ_Y	tRNA links to Rfam database...	0.57	0.59	0.56	10	2832	12	5	3	4	7
2XQD_Y	tRNA links to Rfam database...	0.88	0.78	1.00	21	2829	0	0	0	0	6
3A2K_C	tRNA links to Rfam database...	0.86	0.75	1.00	21	2905	0	0	0	0	7
3AMU_B	tRNA links to Rfam database...	0.18	0.15	0.22	4	2985	16	2	12	2	23
3GX2_A	SAM links to Rfam database...	0.50	0.40	0.64	16	4346	10	1	8	1	24
3IVN_B	Purine links to Rfam database...	0.78	0.61	1.00	19	2327	0	0	0	0	12
3J20_0	tRNA links to Rfam database...	0.73	0.57	0.94	17	2832	2	0	1	1	13
3J3D_C	tRNA links to Rfam database...	0.72	0.61	0.85	17	2755	3	0	3	0	11
3JYV_7	tRNA links to Rfam database...	-0.01	0.00	0.00	0	2830	20	0	20	0	32
3LA5_A	Purine links to Rfam database...	0.78	0.62	1.00	21	2464	0	0	0	0	13
3RKF_A	Purine links to Rfam database...	0.76	0.59	1.00	20	2191	0	0	0	0	14
3SD1_A	THF links to Rfam database...	0.30	0.17	0.54	7	3903	6	0	6	0	35
4AOB_A	SAM links to Rfam database...	0.35	0.26	0.48	11	4348	13	1	11	1	31
4ENB_A	crcB links to Rfam database...	0.43	0.32	0.60	6	1265	4	0	4	0	13
4ENC_A	crcB links to Rfam database...	0.43	0.32	0.60	6	1316	4	0	4	0	13

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