Improved prediction of protein ligand-binding sites using random forests

Protein and Peptide Letters

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1212-1218

  Qiu, Zhijun ^a,b   Wang, Xicheng ^a  

^a DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b HENAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Ligand binding site prediction; Patch based residue characterization; Random forests

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CLASSIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIGAND BINDING; MACHINE LEARNING; MEASUREMENT; MORITA METHOD; PREDICTION; PROTEIN BINDING; Q SITEFINDER METHOD; RANDOM FOREST; SCREEN METHOD;

ALGORITHMS; BINDING SITES; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; PROTEINS;

EID: 80054910093     PISSN: 09298665     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/092986611797642788     Document Type: Article

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