Comparing approaches to predict transmembrane domains in protein sequences

• There are today several systems for predicting transmembrane domains in membrane protein sequences. As they are based on different classifiers as well as different pre- and post-processing techniques, it is very difficult to evaluate the performance of the particular classifier used. We have developed a system called MemMiC for predicting transmembrane domains in protein se-quences with the possibility to choose between different ap-proaches to pre- and post-processing as well as different classifiers. Therefore it is possible to compare the performance of each classifier in a certain environment as well as the different approaches to pre- and post-processing. We have demonstrated the usefulness of MemMiC in a set of experiments, which shows, e.g., that the performance of a classifier is very dependent on which pre- and post-processing techniques are used.

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NATURVETENSKAP  -- Data- och informationsvetenskap -- Datavetenskap (hsv//swe)

NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Computer and Information Sciences -- Computer Sciences (hsv//eng)

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learning

classifiers

protein sequences

Computer Science

Datavetenskap

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