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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Aug 13.
Published in final edited form as: Nat Methods. 2016 Nov 7;14(1):45–48. doi: 10.1038/nmeth.4066
G-test:16
GT(i,j)=2a,bObsijablogObsijabExpijab,
Pearson’s chi-square:
CHI(i,j)=a,b(ObsijabExpijab)Expijab2,
Mutual information (MI):27;28
MI(i,j)=a,bPijablogPijabpiapjb,
MI normalized:29
MIr(i,j)=MI(i,j)H(i,j)=MI(i,j)a,bPijablogPijab,
MI with gap penalty:10
MIg(i,j)=MI(i,j)NijGN,
Obs-Minus-Exp-Squared:30
OMES(i,j)=a,b(ObsijabExpijab)2Nij,
RNAalifold (RAF):31
RAF(i,j)=Bi,j,
RNAalifold Stacking (RAFS):10
RAFS(i,j)=14(Bi1,j+1+2Bi,j+Bi+1,j1),