| BPSO | Binary particle swarm optimizer algorithm |
| SFS | Sequential forward selection strategies |
| IFS | Incremental feature selection strategies |
| ACC | Accuracy |
| MCC | Mathew’s correlation coefficient |
| SN | Sensitivity |
| SP | Specificity |
| K-mer | K-mer nucleotide frequency |
| PseDNC | Pseudo dinucleotide composition |
| KD | K-nucleotide density |
| PSKP | Position-specific k-nucleotide propensity |
| NCP | Nucleotide chemical property |