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Metric	RNAalifold(seed)		RNASLOpt
MCC	0.544	>	0.449
Average MCC ± 95% Confidence Intervals	0.501 ± 0.151	>	0.475 ± 0.169
Sensitivity	0.327	<	0.376
Positive Predictive Value	0.910	>	0.542
Total TP	141	<	162
Total TN	74509	>	74365
Total FP	18	<	180
Total FP CONTRA	1	<	21
Total FP INCONS	13	<	116
Total FP COMP	4	<	43
Total FN	290	>	269
P-value	2.20167918023e-08

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

Total Scores
MCC	0.544
Average MCC ± 95% Confidence Intervals	0.501 ± 0.151
Sensitivity	0.327
Positive Predictive Value	0.910
Nr of predictions	13

RNA Chain	Rfam family	MCC	SENS	PPV	TP	TN	FP	FP CONTRA	FP INCONS	FP COMP	FN
2LC8_A	GP_knot1 links to Rfam database...	-0.01	0.00	0.00	0	1528	12	0	12	0	20
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
3W1K_J	tRNA-Sec links to Rfam database...	0.71	0.50	1.00	19	4167	0	0	0	0	19
3W3S_B	tRNA-Sec links to Rfam database...	0.67	0.45	1.00	18	4735	1	0	0	1	22
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
4FRN_A	AdoCbl-variant links to Rfam database...	0.69	0.53	0.90	19	5130	2	1	1	0	17
4JF2_A	preQ1-II links to Rfam database...	0.59	0.35	1.00	11	2839	0	0	0	0	20

Total Scores
MCC	0.449
Average MCC ± 95% Confidence Intervals	0.475 ± 0.169
Sensitivity	0.376
Positive Predictive Value	0.542
Nr of predictions	13

RNA Chain	Rfam family	MCC	SENS	PPV	TP	TN	FP	FP CONTRA	FP INCONS	FP COMP	FN
2LC8_A	GP_knot1 links to Rfam database...	0.47	0.35	0.64	7	1529	4	0	4	0	13
3J3E_8	5_8S_rRNA links to Rfam database...	0.00	0.00	0.00	0	7483	30	1	19	10	33
3J3F_8	5_8S_rRNA links to Rfam database...	0.34	0.33	0.35	12	12212	35	3	19	13	24
3W1K_J	tRNA-Sec links to Rfam database...	0.84	0.74	0.97	28	4157	1	1	0	0	10
3W3S_B	tRNA-Sec links to Rfam database...	0.82	0.70	0.97	28	4724	2	0	1	1	12
3ZEX_C	5_8S_rRNA links to Rfam database...	0.26	0.21	0.33	11	14163	35	2	20	13	41
4A1C_2	5_8S_rRNA links to Rfam database...	0.23	0.24	0.22	8	11744	35	8	21	6	25
4AOB_A	SAM links to Rfam database...	0.26	0.19	0.38	8	4350	13	2	11	0	34
4ENB_A	crcB links to Rfam database...	0.76	0.58	1.00	11	1264	0	0	0	0	8
4ENC_A	crcB links to Rfam database...	0.65	0.47	0.90	9	1316	1	1	0	0	10
4FRG_B	AdoCbl-variant links to Rfam database...	0.56	0.47	0.68	15	3464	7	1	6	0	17
4FRN_A	AdoCbl-variant links to Rfam database...	0.20	0.17	0.26	6	5128	17	2	15	0	30
4JF2_A	preQ1-II links to Rfam database...	0.78	0.61	1.00	19	2831	0	0	0	0	12

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