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DDAG K-TIPCAC : an ensemble method for protein subcellular localization
Full text linkProtein subcellular location prediction is one of the most difficult multiclass prediction problems in modern computational biology.
Many methods have been proposed in the literature to solve this problem, but all the existing approaches are affected by some limitations. In this contribution we propose a novel method for protein subcellular location prediction that performs multiclass classification by combining kernel
classifiers through DDAG. Each base classifier, called K-TIPCAC, projects
the points on a Fisher subspace estimated on the training data by means of a novel technique. Experimental results clearly indicated that DDAG K-TIPCAC performs equally, if not better, than state-of-the-art ensemble methods for protein subcellular location
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Network-based drug ranking and repositioning with respect to DrugBank therapeutic categories
Full text linkDrug repositioning is a challenging computational problem involving the integration of heterogeneous sources of biomolecular data and the design of label ranking algorithms able to exploit the overall topology of the underlying pharmacological network. In this context, we propose a novel semisupervised drug ranking problem: prioritizing drugs in integrated biochemical networks according to specific DrugBank therapeutic categories. Algorithms for drug repositioning usually perform the inference step into an inhomogeneous similarity space induced by the relationships existing between drugs and a second type of entity (e.g., disease, target, ligand set), thus making unfeasible a drug ranking within a homogeneous pharmacological space. To deal with this problem, we designed a general framework based on bipartite network projections by which homogeneous pharmacological networks can be constructed and integrated from heterogeneous and complementary sources of chemical, biomolecular and clinical information. Moreover, we present a novel algorithmic scheme based on kernelized score functions that adopts both local and global learning strategies to effectively rank drugs in the integrated pharmacological space using different network combination methods. Detailed experiments with more than 80 DrugBank therapeutic categories involving about 1,300 FDA-approved drugs show the effectiveness of the proposed approach
Weighted True Path Rule: a multilabel hierarchical algorithm for gene function prediction
Full text linkThe genome-wide hierarchical classification of gene functions, using biomolecular data from high-throughput biotechnologies, is one of the central topics in bioinformatics and functional genomics. In this paper we present a multilabel hierarchical algorithm inspired by the “true path rule” that governs both the Gene Ontology and the Functional Catalogue (FunCat). In particular we propose an enhanced version of
the True Path Rule (TPR) algorithm, by which we can control the flow of information between the classifiers of the hierarchical ensemble, thus allowing to tune the precision/recall characteristics of the overall hierarchical classification system. Results with the model organism S. cerevisiae show that the proposed method significantly improves on the basic version of the TPR algorithm, as well as on the Hierarchical Top-down and Flat ensembles
Genes prioritization with respect to Cancer Gene Modules using functional interaction network data
No full textThe classification of genes as belonging or not to Cancer Gene modules (CGMs) can help in shedding light on bio-molecular mechanisms involved in the onset and progression of many types of tumors and is also able to open novel research directions for diagnostic, prognostic and
therapeutic studies. In this contribution we propose a novel method suitable for CGMs membership prioritization in Functional Interaction networks. The proposed method was evaluated on previously published datasets and compares favorably with other state-of-the-art methods
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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