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In this work we approach the problem of predicting protein binding hot spot residues through a combination of classifiers. We consider a comprehensive set of structural and chemical properties reported in the literature for characterizing hot spot residues. Each component classifier considers a specific set of properties as feature set and their output are combined by the mean rule. The proposed combination of classifiers achieved a performance of 56.6%, measured by the F-Measure with corresponding Recall of 72.2% and Precision of 46.6%. This performance is higher than those reported by Darnel et al. [4] for the same data set, when compared through a t-test with a significance level of 5%.
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Higa, R.H., Tozzi, C.L. (2008). Prediction of Protein-Protein Binding Hot Spots: A Combination of Classifiers Approach. In: Bazzan, A.L.C., Craven, M., Martins, N.F. (eds) Advances in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. BSB 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5167. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-85557-6_16
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