Table 1. The experimental results (mean) on human protein data sets for investigating the usefulness of the correlations among the locations.

Evaluation metric		The proposed algorithm
		The original data set			The new data set (40%)
		Normal	Variation	The gap	Normal	Variation	The gap
The whole test set	Average precision	0.661	0.655	0.006	0.653	0.636	0.017
	Recall	0.595	0.587	0.008	0.562	0.543	0.019
	F1-score	0.530	0.522	0.008	0.516	0.504	0.012
	Absolute true success rate	0.274	0.261	0.013	0.204	0.189	0.015
	Coverage	2.003	2.047	−0.044	2.630	2.711	−0.081
	Ranking loss	0.129	0.132	−0.003	0.143	0.148	−0.005
Samples withmultiple sites	Average precision	0.688	0.673	0.015	0.700	0.678	0.022
	Recall	0.478	0.459	0.019	0.535	0.498	0.037
	F1-score	0.535	0.518	0.017	0.572	0.545	0.027
	Absolute true success rate	0.179	0.148	0.031	0.231	0.181	0.050
	Coverage	3.889	4.030	−0.141	3.825	3.954	−0.129
	Ranking loss	0.152	0.158	−0.006	0.148	0.155	−0.007