Research Article

Predicting Interactions between Virus and Host Proteins Using Repeat Patterns and Composition of Amino Acids

Table 3

Results of 10-fold cross validation of SVM model on different combinations of the three features we used in our method.

F1 and F2F3Sn (%)Sp (%)Acc (%)PPV (%)NPV (%)MCCAUC

SAR5 partitions88.2497.3492.7997.0789.220.8590.963
SAR7 partitions88.2497.9693.1097.7489.290.8660.965
SAR9 partitions89.1996.0892.6395.7989.880.8550.962
DAR5 partitions84.8094.5189.6693.9286.140.7970.937
DAR7 partitions85.4294.5189.9793.9786.640.8030.938
DAR9 partitions85.2794.2089.7393.6386.470.7980.940

SAR: single amino acid repeats for F1 and F2, DAR: double amino acid repeats for F1 and F2, Sn: sensitivity, Sp: specificity, Acc: accuracy, PPV: positive predictive value, NPV: negative predictive value, MCC: Matthews correlation coefficient, and AUC: the area under the ROC curve.