Center for RNA Biology, Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics, and Department of Biostatistics & Computational Biology, University of Rochester Medical Center, 601 Elmwood Avenue, Box 712, Rochester, NY 14642, United States.
Methods. 2019 Jun 1;162-163:60-67. doi: 10.1016/j.ymeth.2019.04.003. Epub 2019 Apr 2.
RNA secondary structure prediction is widely used. As new methods are developed, these are often benchmarked for accuracy against existing methods. This review discusses good practices for performing these benchmarks, including the choice of benchmarking structures, metrics to quantify accuracy, the importance of allowing flexibility for pairs in the accepted structure, and the importance of statistical testing for significance.
RNA 二级结构预测应用广泛。随着新方法的不断发展,人们经常将这些方法与现有方法进行准确性基准测试。本文讨论了进行这些基准测试的良好实践,包括基准结构的选择、用于量化准确性的指标、在接受结构中为碱基对留出灵活性的重要性以及统计测试对显著性的重要性。