Predicting human miRNA target genes using a novel evolutionary methodology

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 7297 LNCS, Issue , 2012, Pages 291-298

  Aigli, Korfiati ^a   Dimitris, Kleftogiannis ^b   Konstantinos, Theofilatos ^a   Spiros, Likothanassis ^a   Athanasios, Tsakalidis ^a   Seferina, Mavroudi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

evolutionary computation; genetic algorithms; Machine Learning classification; miRNA targets; miRNAs; multiobjective optimization; Support Vector Machines

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION PERFORMANCE; COMPUTATIONAL APPROACH; EXPERIMENTAL IDENTIFICATION; FEATURE SUBSET; HYBRID METHODOLOGIES; INTERPRETABILITY; MACHINE LEARNING CLASSIFICATION; MIRNAS; MRNA TARGETS; SELECTION TECHNIQUES; TARGET GENES;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; GENES; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; MULTIOBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION;

SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

EID: 84861715739     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-30448-4_37     Document Type: Conference Paper

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