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Table 1 Evaluation measurements.

From: Predicting the protein-protein interactions using primary structures with predicted protein surface

Measurement

Abbreviation

Equation

Accuracy

Acc.

(TP+TN)/(TP+TN+FP+FN)

F-measure

Fm.

2TP/(2TP+FP+FN)

Precision

Prec.

TP/(TP+FP)

Sensitivity (recall)

Sens.

TP/(TP+FN)

Specificity

Spec.

TN/(TN+FP)

  1. The definitions of the abbreviations used: TP is the number of interacting protein pairs correctly classified; FN is the number of interacting protein pairs incorrectly classified as non-interacting; TN is the number of non-interacting protein pairs correctly classified; and FN is the number of non-interacting protein pairs incorrectly classified as interacting.
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BMC Bioinformatics

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