The discriminant power of RNA features for pre-miRNA recognition

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  De ON Lopes, Ivani ^a,b,c   Schliep, Alexander ^b   de LF de Carvalho, André C P ^c  

^a EMBRAPA CERRADOS   (Brazil)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Inst de Cie Matemat e de Comp   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION PERFORMANCE; DISCRIMINANT POWER; FEATURE DISCRIMINATION; FEATURE SETS; MAXIMAL VALUES; PREDICTION TOOLS; SETS OF FEATURES; TRAINING ALGORITHMS; SEQUENCE STRUCTURE;

RNA;

DECISION TREES;

EID: 84902118176     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-15-124     Document Type: Article

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