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An important task in the area of gene discovery is the correct prediction of the translation initiation site (TIS). The TIS can correspond to the first AUG, but this is not always the case. This task can be modeled as a classification problem between positive (TIS) and negative patterns. Here we have used Support Vector Machine working with data processed by the class balancing method called Smote (Synthetic Minority Over-sampling Technique). Smote was used because the average imbalance has a positive/negative pattern ratio of around 1:28 for the databases used in this work. As a result we have attained accuracy, precision, sensitivity and specificity values of 99% on average.
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Nobre, C.N., Ortega, J.M., de Pádua Braga, A. (2007). High Efficiency on Prediction of Translation Initiation Site (TIS) of RefSeq Sequences. In: Sagot, MF., Walter, M.E.M.T. (eds) Advances in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. BSB 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4643. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73731-5_13
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