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. 2010 Apr 2;11:167. doi: 10.1186/1471-2105-11-167

Table 1.

Evaluation measurements employed in this study

Measurement Abbreviation Equation1
Precision Prec. TP/(TP+FP)
Sensitivity (recall) Sens. TP/(TP+FN)
Specificity Spec. TN/(TN+FP)
Accuracy Acc. (TP+TN)/(TP+TN+FP+FN)
F-measure Fm. 2TP/(2TP+FP+FN)

1The definition of the abbreviations used: TP is the number of interacting protein pairs correctly classified; FN is the number of interacting protein pairs incorrectly classified as non-interacting; TN is the number of non-interacting protein pairs correctly classified; and FP is the number of non-interacting protein pairs incorrectly classified as interacting.