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. 2015 Dec 8;6:366. doi: 10.3389/fphys.2015.00366

Table 1.

Summary of the papers analyzed in this mini-review.

References Learning instances Learning features Machine learning algorithms Prediction performance metrics Results
Source Type of Feature
Zhu et al., 2009 DrugBank BioGRID Connectivity degree, cluster coefficient, distance-based measures, topological coefficient Support Vector Machine AUC AUC: 69.21%
Jeon et al., 2014 DrugBank, Therapeutics Target Database Bossi and Lehner, 2009 GARP score, RMA intensity, row chromosomal copy number, mutation occurrence and closeness centrality (combined or isolated) SVM-recursive feature elimination (SVM-REF) method for feature selection; SVM-RBF kernels for predictions Accuracy, Specificity, AUC Avg. accuracy: 91.69% Avg. specificity: 91.91% Avg. AUC: 78% (combined)
Li et al., 2015 DrugBank HIPPIE Combination of various network distance-based measures and sequence features of proteins Random Forest with minimum Redundancy Maximum Relevance (mRMR) Feature Selection Accuracy, Sensitivity, Specificity, Precision, Matthews correlation coefficient Accuracy: 87.05% Sensitivity: 90.28% Specificity: 83.83% Precision: 84.82% Matthews correlation coefficient: 0.7427 (Avg. of 10 random samples)
Laenen et al., 2013 PubChem, ChEMBL and BindingDB STRING, GEO (Edgar et al., 2002) Combination of kernel and correlation diffusion and differential gene expression Rank-based method AUC Kernel: 76–91% Correlation: 89–92%
Emig et al., 2013 Integrity metaBase (Bureeva et al., 2009), GEO (Edgar et al., 2002) Combination of neighborhood scoring, interconnectivity, network propagation, random walk and differential gene expression Logistic regression model AUC AUC: 63.27–93.19%
Yao and Rzhetsky, 2008 DrugBank HPRD Combination of connectivity, betweenness, tissue expression entropy, constant corrected ratio of non-synonymous and synonymous mutations and functional family assignment Naive Bayesian, logistic regression, radial basis function network, Bayesian networks AUC Naive Bayes: 70.43% Logistic regression: 72.57% RBF network: 60.93% Bayesian Network: 72.31%
Costa et al., 2010 Yildirim et al., 2007 BioGRID, DIP, HPRD, IntAct, MINT, MIPS-MPPI, TRED, human metabolic model Recon 1 Combination of several network measures, tissue expression profile and subcellular localization Decision tree-based meta-classifier AUC, Recall, Precision AUC: 82% Recall: 78.2% Precision: 74.8%