An ensemble of support vector machines for predicting virulent proteins

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 7458-7462

  Nanni, Loris ^a   Lumini, Alessandra ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Ensemble of classifiers; Machine learning; Support vector machines; Virulent proteins

Indexed keywords

AMINATION; AMINES; AMINO ACIDS; BACTERIOLOGY; CLASSIFIERS; IMAGE RETRIEVAL; LEARNING SYSTEMS; ORGANIC ACIDS; PROTEINS; ROBOT LEARNING;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCES; DATA-SETS; ENSEMBLE OF CLASSIFIERS; EVOLUTIONARY INFORMATIONS; MACHINE LEARNING; PROTEIN PREDICTIONS; RELIABLE SYSTEMS; TESTING PROTOCOLS; TRAINING SETS; VIRULENT PROTEINS;

SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

EID: 60249083742     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2008.09.036     Document Type: Article

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