Journal
MACHINE LEARNING
Volume 88, Issue 1-2, Pages 209-241Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10994-011-5271-6
Keywords
Hierarchical multilabel classification; Data integration; Cost-sensitive classification; Ensemble methods; Gene function prediction
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- PASCAL2 Network of Excellence under EC [216886]
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Gene function prediction is a complex multilabel classification problem with several distinctive features: the hierarchical relationships between functional classes, the presence of multiple sources of biomolecular data, the unbalance between positive and negative examples for each class, the complexity of the whole-ontology and genome-wide dimensions. Unlike previous works, which mostly looked at each one of these issues in isolation, we explore the interaction and potential synergy of hierarchical multilabel methods, data fusion methods, and cost-sensitive approaches on whole-ontology and genome-wide gene function prediction. Besides classical top-down hierarchical multilabel ensemble methods, in our experiments we consider two recently proposed multilabel methods: one based on the approximation of the Bayesian optimal classifier with respect to the hierarchical loss, and one based on a heuristic approach inspired by the true path rule for the biological functional ontologies. Our experiments show that key factors for the success of hierarchical ensemble methods are the integration and synergy among multilabel hierarchical, data fusion, and cost-sensitive approaches, as well as the strategy of selecting negative examples.
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