Data Set Information:

The references below describe a predecessor to this dataset and its development. They also give results (not cross-validated) for classification by a rule-based expert system with that version of the dataset.

Reference: "Expert Sytem for Predicting Protein Localization Sites in Gram-Negative Bacteria", Kenta Nakai & Minoru Kanehisa,  PROTEINS: Structure, Function, and Genetics 11:95-110, 1991.

Reference: "A Knowledge base for Predicting Protein Localization Sites in Eukaryotic Cells", Kenta Nakai & Minoru Kanehisa, Genomics 14:897-911, 1992.

Attribute Information:

1.  Sequence Name: Accession number for the SWISS-PROT database
 2.  mcg: McGeoch's method for signal sequence recognition.
 3.  gvh: von Heijne's method for signal sequence recognition.
 4.  lip: von Heijne's Signal Peptidase II consensus sequence score. Binary attribute.
 5.  chg: Presence of charge on N-terminus of predicted lipoproteins. Binary attribute.
 6.  aac: score of discriminant analysis of the amino acid content of outer membrane and periplasmic proteins.
 7. alm1: score of the ALOM membrane spanning region prediction program.
 8. alm2: score of ALOM program after excluding putative cleavable signal regions from the sequence.

Relevant Papers:

Paul Horton & Kenta Nakai. "A Probablistic Classification System for Predicting the Cellular Localization Sites of Proteins".Intelligent Systems in Molecular Biology, 109-115. St. Louis, USA 1996.
[Web link]

Papers That Cite This Data Set¹:

Vassilis Athitsos and Stan Sclaroff. Boosting Nearest Neighbor Classifiers for Multiclass Recognition. Boston University Computer Science Tech. Report No, 2004-006. 2004.  [View Context].

Charles X. Ling and Qiang Yang and Jianning Wang and Shichao Zhang. Decision trees with minimal costs. ICML. 2004.  [View Context].

Xiaoyong Chai and Li Deng and Qiang Yang and Charles X. Ling. Test-Cost Sensitive Naive Bayes Classification. ICDM. 2004.  [View Context].

Aik Choon Tan and David Gilbert. An Empirical Comparison of Supervised Machine Learning Techniques in Bioinformatics. APBC. 2003.  [View Context].

Mukund Deshpande and George Karypis. evaluation of Techniques for Classifying Biological Sequences. PAKDD. 2002.  [View Context].

Huajie Zhang and Charles X. Ling. An Improved Learning Algorithm for Augmented Naive Bayes. PAKDD. 2001.  [View Context].

Creator and Maintainer:

Kenta Nakai
Institue of Molecular and Cellular Biology
Osaka, University
1-3 Yamada-oka, Suita 565 Japan
nakai '@' imcb.osaka-u.ac.jp
http://www.imcb.osaka-u.ac.jp/nakai/psort.html

Donor:

Paul Horton (paulh '@' cs.berkeley.edu)

See also: yeast database