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

Table 2.

Brief description about the common terminologies used in this mini-review.

Concept Description
Druggability The property of a druggable molecule (i.e., a biological target) by virtue of which it elicits a favorable clinical response when it contacts a drug-like compound
Systems Biology Study of the complex biological systems using mathematical and computational modeling
Machine Learning Subfield of computer science devoted to the development and utilization of algorithms that can learn from and make predictions on data
Network Measures Numerical attributes used to describe the role and position of every node in a network
Ensemble algorithms Collection of machine learning algorithms in which the final consensus prediction is made using results from each component algorithm
Support Vector Machines (SVM) A model that takes the input training data and maps the data points in space and then tries to find a hyperplane that can be used to distinctly classify the data into their respective classes
Decision Tree Machine learning algorithms based on decision support tools that make use of a graph of conditions and their possible consequences
Random Forest Ensemble learning algorithm that combines results from multiple decision trees and output the consensus predictions
Closeness Centrality Network measure that indicates how close each node is to every other node in the network
Betweenness Centrality Fraction of shortest paths between all nodes passing through the given node