Results

Performance Table

Program	CPU time	Seq ID	Free energy	Covar.	Bp. prob.	Canonical bp.	SPS	SEN	PPV	MCC
Consensus	0.00	0.40	-16.70	0.93	0.56	0.95	0.89	0.94	0.94	0.94
CMfinder	4.65	0.40	-13.79	0.81	0.52	0.91	0.74	0.85	0.86	0.83
FoldalignM	30.92	0.37	-16.84	0.95	0.57	0.95	0.74	0.90	0.91	0.89
LaRA	58.00	0.40	-18.63	1.03	0.59	0.97	0.87	0.96	0.96	0.95
LocARNA	7.68	0.41	-16.22	0.93	0.63	0.92	0.84	0.73	0.96	0.82
MASTR	170.05	0.42	-17.22	0.88	0.58	0.94	0.86	0.93	0.94	0.92
MXSCARNA	0.59	0.39	-15.87	0.68	0.56	0.92	0.81	0.90	0.91	0.89
MURLET	57.97	0.43	-9.23	0.90	0.70	0.98	0.85	0.57	1.00	0.73
RNASampler	96.54	0.37	-19.38	1.07	0.59	0.98	0.82	0.98	0.98	0.98
RNAforester	0.28	0.24	-4.67	0.32	0.46	0.66	0.32	0.36	0.57	0.35
PETfold	2.76	0.37	-6.02	0.37	0.45	0.73	0.65	0.64	0.62	0.56
ClustalW-Pfold	0.04	0.38	-5.15	0.60	0.38	0.86	0.61	0.53	0.74	0.59
ClustalW-RNAalifold	0.07	0.38	-7.03	0.66	0.38	0.87	0.61	0.51	0.76	0.58
MAFFT-Pfold	0.98	0.38	-14.59	0.85	0.61	0.92	0.78	0.82	0.89	0.84
MAFFT-RNAalifold	1.05	0.38	-15.10	0.90	0.65	0.92	0.78	0.70	0.90	0.77

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