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ArticleNucleic acids research2019

NetGO: improving large-scale protein function prediction with massive network information.

Ronghui You, Shuwei Yao, Yi Xiong, Xiaodi Huang, Fengzhu Sun, Hiroshi Mamitsuka, Shanfeng Zhu

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Article in Nucleic acids research, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 68 papers.

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Ronghui YouSchool of Computer Science and Shanghai Key Lab of Intelligent Information Processing, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China.
Shuwei YaoSchool of Computer Science and Shanghai Key Lab of Intelligent Information Processing, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China.
Yi XiongDepartment of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
Xiaodi HuangSchool of Computing and Mathematics, Charles Sturt University, Albury, NSW 2640, Australia.
Fengzhu SunInstitute of Science and Technology for Brain-Inspired Intelligence, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China.
Hiroshi MamitsukaBioinformatics Center, Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto University, Uji 611-0011, Japan.
Shanfeng ZhuSchool of Computer Science and Shanghai Key Lab of Intelligent Information Processing, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Automated function prediction (AFP) of proteins is of great significance in biology. AFP can be regarded as a problem of the large-scale multi-label classification where a protein can be associated with multiple gene ontology terms as its labels. Based on our GOLabeler-a state-of-the-art method for the third critical assessment of functional annotation (CAFA3), in this paper we propose NetGO, a web server that is able to further improve the performance of the large-scale AFP by incorporating massive protein-protein network information. Specifically, the advantages of NetGO are threefold in using network information: (i) NetGO relies on a powerful learning to rank framework from machine learning to effectively integrate both sequence and network information of proteins; (ii) NetGO uses the massive network information of all species (>2000) in STRING (other than only some specific species) and (iii) NetGO still can use network information to annotate a protein by homology transfer, even if it is not contained in STRING. Separating training and testing data with the same time-delayed settings of CAFA, we comprehensively examined the performance of NetGO. Experimental results have clearly demonstrated that NetGO significantly outperforms GOLabeler and other competing methods. The NetGO web server is freely available at http://issubmission.sjtu.edu.cn/netgo/.

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Machine LearningMolecular Sequence AnnotationSoftwareAmino Acid SequenceAnimalsBenchmarkingComputational BiologyDatabases, ProteinGene OntologyHumansInternetModels, MolecularPlantsProkaryotic CellsProtein Interaction MappingProteinsProteins

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