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Metric	RNAalifold(seed)		MXScarna(20)
MCC	0.559	>	0.547
Average MCC ± 95% Confidence Intervals	0.542 ± 0.082	<	0.547 ± 0.106
Sensitivity	0.338	<	0.434
Positive Predictive Value	0.929	>	0.693
Total TP	262	<	337
Total TN	187063	>	186859
Total FP	28	<	220
Total FP CONTRA	7	<	25
Total FP INCONS	13	<	124
Total FP COMP	8	<	71
Total FN	514	>	439
P-value	2.91763127434e-08

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

Total Scores
MCC	0.559
Average MCC ± 95% Confidence Intervals	0.542 ± 0.082
Sensitivity	0.338
Positive Predictive Value	0.929
Nr of predictions	19

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...	0.52	0.27	1.00	3	403	0	0	0	0	8
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

Total Scores
MCC	0.547
Average MCC ± 95% Confidence Intervals	0.547 ± 0.106
Sensitivity	0.434
Positive Predictive Value	0.693
Nr of predictions	19

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
3GX2_A	SAM links to Rfam database...	0.70	0.58	0.85	23	4344	5	0	4	1	17
3IVN_B	Purine links to Rfam database...	0.74	0.58	0.95	18	2327	1	1	0	0	13
3IZ4_A	tmRNA links to Rfam database...	0.51	0.41	0.64	54	70791	32	7	24	1	78
3J3E_8	5_8S_rRNA links to Rfam database...	0.14	0.09	0.23	3	7490	15	2	8	5	30
3J3F_8	5_8S_rRNA links to Rfam database...	0.43	0.36	0.52	13	12221	26	2	10	14	23
3JYX_4	5_8S_rRNA links to Rfam database...	0.33	0.30	0.37	10	12219	32	2	15	15	23
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...	0.69	0.59	0.82	27	6988	9	1	5	3	19
3O58_3	5_8S_rRNA links to Rfam database...	0.52	0.40	0.67	14	12382	17	2	5	10	21
3PDR_A	ykoK links to Rfam database...	0.71	0.57	0.89	41	12834	9	0	5	4	31
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...	0.63	0.55	0.74	23	3885	8	2	6	0	19
3ZEX_C	5_8S_rRNA links to Rfam database...	0.31	0.21	0.46	11	14172	13	2	11	0	41
4A1C_2	5_8S_rRNA links to Rfam database...	0.18	0.15	0.21	5	11757	36	2	17	17	28
4AOB_A	SAM links to Rfam database...	0.62	0.55	0.72	23	4339	10	0	9	1	19
4ENB_A	crcB links to Rfam database...	0.26	0.11	0.67	2	1272	1	0	1	0	17
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...	0.55	0.44	0.70	14	3466	6	2	4	0	18

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