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| Official URL http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-85557-6 |
Abstract
Despite the recent advances in Molecular Biology, the function of a large amount of proteins is still unknown. An approach that can be used in the prediction of a protein function consists of searching against secondary databases, also known as signature databases. Different strategies can be applied to use protein signatures in the prediction of function of proteins. A sophisticated approach consists of inducing a classification model for this prediction. This paper applies five hierarchical classification methods based on the standard Top-Down approach and one hierarchical classification method based on a new approach named Top-Down Ensembles - based on the hierarchical combination of classifiers - to three different protein functional classification datasets that employ protein signatures. The algorithm based on the Top-Down Ensembles approach presented slightly better results than the other algorithms, indicating that combinations of classifiers can improve the performance of hierarchical classification models.
| Item Type: | Conference or workshop item (Paper) |
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| Uncontrolled keywords: | classification, bioinformatics |
| Subjects: | Q Science > QA Mathematics (inc Computing science) > QA 76 Software, computer programming, |
| Divisions: | Faculties > Science Technology and Medical Studies > School of Computing > Applied and Interdisciplinary Informatics Group |
| Depositing User: | Mark Wheadon |
| Date Deposited: | 29 Mar 2010 12:12 |
| Last Modified: | 29 Mar 2010 12:12 |
| Resource URI: | http://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/24052 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes) |
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