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Table 1 Quality of non-canonical base pair prediction for RNA STRAND-deposited structures (best values in bold)

From: New in silico approach to assessing RNA secondary structures with non-canonical base pairs

 

Sequence length (nts)

1–50

51–100

101–200

201–500

Number of reference structures that include non-canonical base pairs

319

126

188

455

Total number of non-canonical base pairs observed in reference structures

641

300

607

2252

(a) Results for non-canonical base pairs predicted from sequence

Number (and percentage) of correctly predicted non-canonical base pairs present in the reference structures

RNAwolf

171 (26.68)

38 (12.67)

44 (7.25)

149 (6.62)

MC-Fold-DP

405 (63.18)

94 (31.33)

157 (25.86)

636 (28.24)

MC-Fold

363 (56.63)

82 (27.33)

167 (27.51)

n/a

RC/Rp-1

369 (57.57)

111 (37.00)

291 (47.94)

690 (30.64)

RC/Rp-2

311 (48.52)

79 (26.33)

244 (40.20)

618 (27.44)

RC/Rp-3

312 (48.67)

81 (27.00)

225 (37.07)

654 (29.04)

Total number of predicted non-canonical base pairs

RNAwolf

893

501

1334

8616

MC-Fold-DP

1099

1040

2891

20123

MC-Fold

816

699

1825

n/a

RC/Rp-1

1493

1462

4453

26050

RC/Rp-2

1418

1235

4041

27282

RC/Rp-3

949

698

2968

14756

(b) Results for non-canonical base pairs predicted from canonical secondary structure

Number (and percentage) of correctly predicted non-canonical base pairs present in the reference structures

RNAwolf

214 (33.39)

67 (22.33)

268 (44.15)

772 (34.28)

MC-Fold-DP

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

MC-Fold

334 (52.11)

136 (45.33)

279 (45.96)

n/a

RC/Rp-1

452 (70.51)

173 (57.67)

337 (55.52)

1124 (49.91)

RC/Rp-2

398 (62.09)

131 (43.67)

290 (47.78)

974 (43.25)

RC/Rp-3

408 (63.65)

145 (48.33)

261 (43.00)

1051 (46.67)

Total number of predicted non-canonical base pairs

RNAwolf

352

154

461

2183

MC-Fold-DP

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

MC-Fold

335

137

279

n/a

RC/Rp-1

1404

1470

4145

26479

RC/Rp-2

1273

1191

3978

26287

RC/Rp-3

969

672

2754

15011