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Journal of Biomedicine and Biotechnology
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 492174, 8 pages
doi:10.1155/2012/492174
Research Article

Signal-BNF: A Bayesian Network Fusing Approach to Predict Signal Peptides

Zhi Zheng,1 Youying Chen,1 Liping Chen,1 Gongde Guo,1 Yongxian Fan,2 and Xiangzeng Kong1,3

1Key Laboratory of Network Security and Cryptology, Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou 350007, China
2Institute of Image Processing and Pattern Recognition, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai 200030, China
3School of Computing and Mathematics, University of Ulster at Jordanstown, Newtownabbey BT37 0QB, UK

Received 19 April 2012; Revised 9 September 2012; Accepted 9 September 2012

Academic Editor: George Perry

Copyright © 2012 Zhi Zheng et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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