Skip to main content
. 2012 Jul 17;13:169. doi: 10.1186/1471-2105-13-169

Table 1.

SVM performance in predicting pore-lining residues, pore-lining helices and discriminating between monomeric and multimeric pore stoichiometry

Classifier Precision Recall TPR FPR MCC Accuracy
Pore-lining residue SVM
0.64
0.54
0.69
0.39
0.30
65%
Pore-lining residue (naïve)
0.53
0.23
0.23
0.21
0.03
51%
Pore-lining helix SVM
0.74
0.35
0.57
0.16
0.43
72%
Pore-lining helix (naïve)
0.50
0.17
0.22
0.17
0.15
55%
Monomeric/multimeric pore stoichiometry SVR 0.88 0.49 0.92 0.11 0.80 90%

TPR: True positive rate. FPR: False positive rate. Pore-lining helices were identified by averaging the raw SVM scores for each participating residue, while a threshold of 7 or more polar residues was found to be optimal for the naïve method.