scholarly journals A Two-Step Feature Selection Method to Predict Cancerlectins by Multiview Features and Synthetic Minority Oversampling Technique

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Runtao Yang ◽  
Chengjin Zhang ◽  
Lina Zhang ◽  
Rui Gao

Cancerlectins have an inhibitory effect on the growth of cancer cells and are currently being employed as therapeutic agents. The accurate identification of the cancerlectins should provide insight into the molecular mechanisms of cancers. In this study, a new computational method based on the RF (Random Forest) algorithm is proposed for further improving the performance of identifying cancerlectins. Hybrid feature space before feature selection is developed by combining different individual feature spaces, CTD (Composition, Transition, and Distribution), PseAAC (Pseudo Amino Acid Composition), PSSM (Position-Specific Scoring Matrix), and disorder. The SMOTE (Synthetic Minority Oversampling Technique) is applied to solve the imbalanced data problem. To reduce feature redundancy and computation complexity, we propose a two-step feature selection process to select informative features. A 5-fold cross-validation technique is used for the evaluation of various prediction strategies. The proposed method achieves a sensitivity of 0.779, a specificity of 0.717, an accuracy of 0.748, and an MCC (Matthew’s Correlation Coefficient) of 0.497. The prediction results are also compared with other existing methods on the same dataset using 5-fold cross-validation. The comparison results demonstrate the high effectiveness of our method for predicting cancerlectins.

Molecules ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (8) ◽  
pp. 2000 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jiu-Xin Tan ◽  
Fu-Ying Dao ◽  
Hao Lv ◽  
Peng-Mian Feng ◽  
Hui Ding

Accurate identification of phage virion protein is not only a key step for understanding the function of the phage virion protein but also helpful for further understanding the lysis mechanism of the bacterial cell. Since traditional experimental methods are time-consuming and costly for identifying phage virion proteins, it is extremely urgent to apply machine learning methods to accurately and efficiently identify phage virion proteins. In this work, a support vector machine (SVM) based method was proposed by mixing multiple sets of optimal g-gap dipeptide compositions. The analysis of variance (ANOVA) and the minimal-redundancy-maximal-relevance (mRMR) with an increment feature selection (IFS) were applied to single out the optimal feature set. In the five-fold cross-validation test, the proposed method achieved an overall accuracy of 87.95%. We believe that the proposed method will become an efficient and powerful method for scientists concerning phage virion proteins.


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 450
Author(s):  
Jinfu Liu ◽  
Mingliang Bai ◽  
Na Jiang ◽  
Ran Cheng ◽  
Xianling Li ◽  
...  

Multi-classifiers are widely applied in many practical problems. But the features that can significantly discriminate a certain class from others are often deleted in the feature selection process of multi-classifiers, which seriously decreases the generalization ability. This paper refers to this phenomenon as interclass interference in multi-class problems and analyzes its reason in detail. Then, this paper summarizes three interclass interference suppression methods including the method based on all-features, one-class classifiers and binary classifiers and compares their effects on interclass interference via the 10-fold cross-validation experiments in 14 UCI datasets. Experiments show that the method based on binary classifiers can suppress the interclass interference efficiently and obtain the best classification accuracy among the three methods. Further experiments were done to compare the suppression effect of two methods based on binary classifiers including the one-versus-one method and one-versus-all method. Results show that the one-versus-one method can obtain a better suppression effect on interclass interference and obtain better classification accuracy. By proposing the concept of interclass inference and studying its suppression methods, this paper significantly improves the generalization ability of multi-classifiers.


2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (S23) ◽  
Author(s):  
Cheng Yan ◽  
Guihua Duan ◽  
Fang-Xiang Wu ◽  
Jianxin Wang

Abstract Background Viral infectious diseases are the serious threat for human health. The receptor-binding is the first step for the viral infection of hosts. To more effectively treat human viral infectious diseases, the hidden virus-receptor interactions must be discovered. However, current computational methods for predicting virus-receptor interactions are limited. Result In this study, we propose a new computational method (IILLS) to predict virus-receptor interactions based on Initial Interaction scores method via the neighbors and the Laplacian regularized Least Square algorithm. IILLS integrates the known virus-receptor interactions and amino acid sequences of receptors. The similarity of viruses is calculated by the Gaussian Interaction Profile (GIP) kernel. On the other hand, we also compute the receptor GIP similarity and the receptor sequence similarity. Then the sequence similarity is used as the final similarity of receptors according to the prediction results. The 10-fold cross validation (10CV) and leave one out cross validation (LOOCV) are used to assess the prediction performance of our method. We also compare our method with other three competing methods (BRWH, LapRLS, CMF). Conlusion The experiment results show that IILLS achieves the AUC values of 0.8675 and 0.9061 with the 10-fold cross validation and leave-one-out cross validation (LOOCV), respectively, which illustrates that IILLS is superior to the competing methods. In addition, the case studies also further indicate that the IILLS method is effective for the virus-receptor interaction prediction.


Author(s):  
Jin-Fan Li ◽  
Xiao-Jing Ma ◽  
Lin-Lin Ying ◽  
Ying-hui Tong ◽  
Xue-ping Xiang

Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) as a common cancer is a heterogeneous disease which is mainly divided into BCP-ALL and T-ALL, accounting for 80–85% and 15–20%, respectively. There are many differences between BCP-ALL and T-ALL, including prognosis, treatment, drug screening, gene research and so on. In this study, starting with methylation and gene expression data, we analyzed the molecular differences between BCP-ALL and T-ALL and identified the multi-omics signatures using Boruta and Monte Carlo feature selection methods. There were 7 expression signature genes (CD3D, VPREB3, HLA-DRA, PAX5, BLNK, GALNT6, SLC4A8) and 168 methylation sites corresponding to 175 methylation signature genes. The overall accuracy, accuracy of BCP-ALL, accuracy of T-ALL of the RIPPER (Repeated Incremental Pruning to Produce Error Reduction) classifier using these signatures evaluated with 10-fold cross validation repeated 3 times were 0.973, 0.990, and 0.933, respectively. Two overlapped genes between 175 methylation signature genes and 7 expression signature genes were CD3D and VPREB3. The network analysis of the methylation and expression signature genes suggested that their common gene, CD3D, was not only different on both methylation and expression levels, but also played a key regulatory role as hub on the network. Our results provided insights of understanding the underlying molecular mechanisms of ALL and facilitated more precision diagnosis and treatment of ALL.


Author(s):  
Sarfaraz Masood ◽  
Khwaja Wisal ◽  
Om Pal ◽  
Chanchal Kumar

Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a highly common neurological disease affecting a large population worldwide. Several studies revealed that the degradation of voice is one of its initial symptoms, which is also known as dysarthria. In this work, we attempt to explore and harness the correlation between various features in the voice samples observed in PD subjects. To do so, a novel two-level ensemble-based feature selection method has been proposed, whose results were combined with an MLP based classifier using K-fold cross-validation as the re-sampling strategy. Three separate benchmark datasets of voice samples were used for the experimentation work. Results strongly suggest that the proposed feature selection framework helps in identifying an optimal set of features which further helps in highly accurate identification of PD patients using a Multi-Layer Perceptron from their voice samples. The proposed model achieves an overall accuracy of 98.3%, 95.1% and 100% on the three selected datasets respectively. These results are significantly better than those achieved by a non-feature selection based option, and even the recently proposed chi-square based feature selection option.


2016 ◽  
Vol 36 (suppl_1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hua Tang ◽  
Hao Lin

Objective: Apolipoproteins are of great physiological importance and are associated with different diseases such as dyslipidemia, thrombogenesis and angiocardiopathy. Apolipoproteins have therefore emerged as key risk markers and important research targets yet the types of apolipoproteins has not been fully elucidated. Accurate identification of the apoliproproteins is very crucial to the comprehension of cardiovascular diseases and drug design. The aim of this study is to develop a powerful model to precisely identify apolipoproteins. Approach and Results: We manually collected a non-redundant dataset of 53 apoliproproteins and 136 non-apoliproproteins with the sequence identify of less than 40% from UniProt. After formulating the protein sequence samples with g -gap dipeptide composition (here g =1~10), the analysis of various (ANOVA) was adopted to find out the best feature subset which can achieve the best accuracy. Support Vector Machine (SVM) was then used to perform classification. The predictive model was evaluated using a five-fold cross-validation which yielded a sensitivity of 96.2%, a specificity of 99.3%, and an accuracy of 98.4%. The study indicated that the proposed method could be a feasible means of conducting preliminary analyses of apoliproproteins. Conclusion: We demonstrated that apoliproproteins can be predicted from their primary sequences. Also we discovered the special dipeptide distribution in apoliproproteins. These findings open new perspectives to improve apoliproproteins prediction by considering the specific dipeptides. We expect that these findings will help to improve drug development in anti-angiocardiopathy disease. Key words: Apoliproproteins Angiocardiopathy Support Vector Machine


2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Yanjuan Li ◽  
Zitong Zhang ◽  
Zhixia Teng ◽  
Xiaoyan Liu

Amyloid is generally an aggregate of insoluble fibrin; its abnormal deposition is the pathogenic mechanism of various diseases, such as Alzheimer’s disease and type II diabetes. Therefore, accurately identifying amyloid is necessary to understand its role in pathology. We proposed a machine learning-based prediction model called PredAmyl-MLP, which consists of the following three steps: feature extraction, feature selection, and classification. In the step of feature extraction, seven feature extraction algorithms and different combinations of them are investigated, and the combination of SVMProt-188D and tripeptide composition (TPC) is selected according to the experimental results. In the step of feature selection, maximum relevant maximum distance (MRMD) and binomial distribution (BD) are, respectively, used to remove the redundant or noise features, and the appropriate features are selected according to the experimental results. In the step of classification, we employed multilayer perceptron (MLP) to train the prediction model. The 10-fold cross-validation results show that the overall accuracy of PredAmyl-MLP reached 91.59%, and the performance was better than the existing methods.


2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yubin Xiao ◽  
Zheng Xiao ◽  
Xiang Feng ◽  
Zhiping Chen ◽  
Linai Kuang ◽  
...  

Abstract Background Accumulating evidence has demonstrated that long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) are closely associated with human diseases, and it is useful for the diagnosis and treatment of diseases to get the relationships between lncRNAs and diseases. Due to the high costs and time complexity of traditional bio-experiments, in recent years, more and more computational methods have been proposed by researchers to infer potential lncRNA-disease associations. However, there exist all kinds of limitations in these state-of-the-art prediction methods as well. Results In this manuscript, a novel computational model named FVTLDA is proposed to infer potential lncRNA-disease associations. In FVTLDA, its major novelty lies in the integration of direct and indirect features related to lncRNA-disease associations such as the feature vectors of lncRNA-disease pairs and their corresponding association probability fractions, which guarantees that FVTLDA can be utilized to predict diseases without known related-lncRNAs and lncRNAs without known related-diseases. Moreover, FVTLDA neither relies solely on known lncRNA-disease nor requires any negative samples, which guarantee that it can infer potential lncRNA-disease associations more equitably and effectively than traditional state-of-the-art prediction methods. Additionally, to avoid the limitations of single model prediction techniques, we combine FVTLDA with the Multiple Linear Regression (MLR) and the Artificial Neural Network (ANN) for data analysis respectively. Simulation experiment results show that FVTLDA with MLR can achieve reliable AUCs of 0.8909, 0.8936 and 0.8970 in 5-Fold Cross Validation (fivefold CV), 10-Fold Cross Validation (tenfold CV) and Leave-One-Out Cross Validation (LOOCV), separately, while FVTLDA with ANN can achieve reliable AUCs of 0.8766, 0.8830 and 0.8807 in fivefold CV, tenfold CV, and LOOCV respectively. Furthermore, in case studies of gastric cancer, leukemia and lung cancer, experiment results show that there are 8, 8 and 8 out of top 10 candidate lncRNAs predicted by FVTLDA with MLR, and 8, 7 and 8 out of top 10 candidate lncRNAs predicted by FVTLDA with ANN, having been verified by recent literature. Comparing with the representative prediction model of KATZLDA, comparison results illustrate that FVTLDA with MLR and FVTLDA with ANN can achieve the average case study contrast scores of 0.8429 and 0.8515 respectively, which are both notably higher than the average case study contrast score of 0.6375 achieved by KATZLDA. Conclusion The simulation results show that FVTLDA has good prediction performance, which is a good supplement to future bioinformatics research.


2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (9) ◽  
pp. 3291
Author(s):  
Jesús F. Pérez-Gómez ◽  
Juana Canul-Reich ◽  
José Hernández-Torruco ◽  
Betania Hernández-Ocaña

Requiring only a few relevant characteristics from patients when diagnosing bacterial vaginosis is highly useful for physicians as it makes it less time consuming to collect these data. This would result in having a dataset of patients that can be more accurately diagnosed using only a subset of informative or relevant features in contrast to using the entire set of features. As such, this is a feature selection (FS) problem. In this work, decision tree and Relief algorithms were used as feature selectors. Experiments were conducted on a real dataset for bacterial vaginosis with 396 instances and 252 features/attributes. The dataset was obtained from universities located in Baltimore and Atlanta. The FS algorithms utilized feature rankings, from which the top fifteen features formed a new dataset that was used as input for both support vector machine (SVM) and logistic regression (LR) algorithms for classification. For performance evaluation, averages of 30 runs of 10-fold cross-validation were reported, along with balanced accuracy, sensitivity, and specificity as performance measures. A performance comparison of the results was made between using the total number of features against using the top fifteen. These results found similar attributes from our rankings compared to those reported in the literature. This study is part of ongoing research that is investigating a range of feature selection and classification methods.


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