Research Article

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

Table 9

Results of 5-fold cross validation of our SVM and Barman’s SVM [22] with Barman’s dataset of 1,035 positive and 1,035 negative PPIs.

MethodSn (%)Sp (%)Acc (%)PPV (%)NPV (%)MCCAUCF1 (%)

Our SVM73.7283.4878.6081.6976.060.5750.84777.50
Barman’s SVM67.0074.0071.0072.000.4400.73069.41
Barman’s Random Forest55.6689.0872.4182.260.4800.76066.39

Sn: sensitivity, Sp: specificity, Acc: accuracy, PPV: positive predictive value, NPV: negative predictive value, MCC: Matthews correlation coefficient, AUC: the area under the ROC curve, F1 = 2  (SN  PPV)/(SN + PPV), and “—”: not available.