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Table 2 Experimental comparison between SCPRED and competing structural class prediction methods.

From: SCPRED: Accurate prediction of protein structural class for sequences of twilight-zone similarity with predicting sequences

Test type

Algorithm

Feature vector (# features)

Reference

Accuracy

MCC

GC2

    

all-α

all-β

α/β

α+β

overall

all-α

all-β

α/β

α+β

 

Jackknife

SVM (Gaussian kernel)

CV (20)

[36]

68.6

59.6

59.8

28.6

53.9

0.52

0.42

0.43

0.15

0.17

 

LogicBoost with decision tree

CV (20)

[23]

56.9

51.5

45.4

30.2

46.0

0.41

0.32

0.32

0.06

0.10

 

Bagging with random tree

CV (20)

[34]

58.7

47.0

35.5

24.7

41.8

0.33

0.26

0.22

0.06

0.06

 

LogitBoost with decision stump

CV (20)

 

62.8

52.6

50.0

32.4

49.4

0.49

0.35

0.34

0.11

0.13

 

SVM (3rd order polyn. kernel)

CV (20)

 

61.2

53.5

57.2

27.7

49.5

0.46

0.35

0.39

0.11

0.13

 

Multinomial logistic regression

custom dipeptides (16)

[28]

56.2

44.5

41.3

18.8

40.2

0.23

0.20

0.31

0.06

0.05

 

Information discrepancy1

dipeptides (400)

[22, 24]

59.6

54.2

47.1

23.5

47.0

0.46

0.40

0.24

0.04

0.12

 

Information discrepancy1

tripeptides (8000)

 

45.8

48.5

51.7

32.5

44.7

0.39

0.39

0.25

0.06

0.11

 

Multinomial logistic regression

custom (34)

[27]

71.1

65.3

66.5

37.3

60.0

0.61

0.51

0.51

0.22

0.25

 

SVM with RBF kernel

custom (34)

 

69.7

62.1

67.1

39.3

59.5

0.60

0.50

0.53

0.21

0.25

 

StackingC ensemble

custom (34)

 

74.6

67.9

70.2

32.4

61.3

0.62

0.53

0.55

0.22

0.26

 

Multinomial logistic regression

custom (66)

[26]

69.1

61.6

60.1

38.3

57.1

0.56

0.44

0.48

0.21

0.21

 

SVM (1st order polyn. kernel)

autocorrelation (30)

 

50.1

49.4

28.8

29.5

34.2

0.16

0.16

0.05

0.05

0.02

 

SVM (1st order polyn. kernel)

custom (58)

[29]

77.4

66.4

61.3

45.4

62.7

0.65

0.54

0.55

0.27

0.28

 

Linear logistic regression

custom (58)

 

75.2

67.5

62.1

44.0

62.2

0.63

0.54

0.54

0.27

0.27

 

SVM (Gaussian kernel)

PSI-PRED based (13)

this paper

92.6

79.8

74.9

69.0

79.3

0.87

0.79

0.68

0.55

0.55

 

SVM (Gaussian kernel)

custom (8 PSI-PRED based)

this paper

92.6

80.6

73.4

68.5

79.1

0.87

0.79

0.67

0.54

0.54

 

SCPRED

custom (9)

this paper

92.6

80.1

74.0

71.0

79.7

0.87

0.79

0.69

0.57

0.55

10-fold cross validation

SVM (Gaussian kernel)

CV (20)

[36]

67.9

59.1

58.1

27.7

53.0

0.51

0.42

0.41

0.14

0.16

 

LogicBoost with decision tree

CV (20)

[23]

51.9

53.7

46.5

32.4

46.1

0.38

0.37

0.31

0.07

0.10

 

Bagging with random tree

CV (20)

[34]

53.5

51.0

37.6

22.0

41.2

0.28

0.30

0.22

0.04

0.06

 

LogitBoost with decision stump

CV (20)

 

63.2

53.5

50.9

32.4

50.0

0.48

0.36

0.36

0.12

0.14

 

SVM (3rd order polyn. kernel)

CV (20)

 

61.4

54.0

55.2

27.4

49.2

0.46

0.35

0.37

0.10

0.13

 

Multinomial logistic regression

custom dipeptides (16)

[28]

56.9

44.2

42.2

17.7

40.2

0.24

0.20

0.32

0.04

0.06

 

Multinomial logistic regression

custom (34)

[27]

69.9

65.3

66.5

38.4

60.0

0.60

0.52

0.51

0.23

0.25

 

SVM with RBF kernel

custom (34)

 

70.2

61.6

67.6

39.6

59.8

0.60

0.49

0.53

0.22

0.25

 

StackingC ensemble

custom (34)

 

73.4

67.3

69.1

29.8

59.9

0.59

0.52

0.54

0.18

0.25

 

Multinomial logistic regression

custom (66)

[26]

69.1

60.5

59.5

38.1

56.7

0.56

0.44

0.48

0.20

0.21

 

SVM (1st order polyn. kernel)

autocorrelation (30)

 

52.4

49.7

0.3

30.4

35.1

0.18

0.16

0.05

0.06

0.02

 

SVM (1st order polyn. kernel)

custom (58)

[29]

77.7

66.8

60.7

45.4

62.8

0.64

0.54

0.54

0.28

0.28

 

Linear logistic regression

custom (58)

 

74.7

66.4

62.7

45.8

62.4

0.63

0.54

0.54

0.27

0.28

 

SVM (Gaussian kernel)

PSI-PRED based (13)

this paper

93.2

79.5

75.7

69.4

79.7

0.87

0.79

0.70

0.55

0.55

 

SVM (Gaussian kernel)

custom (8 PSI-PRED based)

this paper

92.5

80.4

73.7

68.0

79.0

0.87

0.79

0.67

0.54

0.54

 

SCPRED

custom (9)

this paper

92.8

80.6

74.3

71.4

80.1

0.87

0.79

0.70

0.57

0.56

  1. 1This method was not originally tested using 10-fold cross validation and thus we also did not report these results