Table 3.

F-measure prediction accuracy of the MEA, MFE, gC-g1, and gC-pMFmeas algorithms on the MA dataset

RNA class	Class size	Mean ± std of length	F-meas (BL*)				F-meas (Turner99)
			ubcMEA	ubcMFE	gC-g1	gC-pMFmeas	rsMEA	rsMFE
16S Ribosomal RNA	675	485.66 ± 113.02	0.625	0.645	0.630	0.665	0.561	0.521
23S Ribosomal RNA	159	453.44 ± 117.85	0.645	0.643	0.626	0.664	0.588	0.562
5S Ribosomal RNA	128	120.98 ± 3.21	0.782	0.780	0.763	0.782	0.616	0.630
Group I intron	89	368.49 ± 103.58	0.644	0.631	0.642	0.670	0.576	0.550
Group II intron	2	578 ± 47	0.540	0.609	0.524	0.582	0.472	0.471
Ribonuclease P RNA	399	332.78 ± 52.34	0.643	0.603	0.656	0.678	0.615	0.575
Signal Recognition RNA	364	227.04 ± 109.53	0.730	0.721	0.680	0.708	0.609	0.625
Transfer RNA	489	77.19 ± 5.13	0.706	0.764	0.719	0.773	0.727	0.726
Unweighted Average			0.668	0.676	0.655	0.690	0.596	0.583
Weighted Average			0.672	0.682	0.669	0.708	0.618	0.600
S-Weighted Average			0.658	0.660	0.648	0.681	0.588	0.568