Incorporating organelle correlations into semi-supervised learning for protein subcellular localization prediction.

Journal: Bioinformatics (Oxford, England)
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Abstract

MOTIVATION: Bioimages of subcellular protein distribution as a new data source have attracted much attention in the field of automated prediction of proteins subcellular localization. Performance of existing systems is significantly limited by the small number of high-quality images with explicit annotations, resulting in the small sample size learning problem. This limitation is more serious for the multi-location proteins that co-exist at two or more organelles, because it is difficult to accurately annotate those proteins by biological experiments or automated systems.

Authors

  • Ying-Ying Xu
  • Fan Yang
    School of Electrical Engineering and Automation, Jiangsu Normal University, Xuzhou, China.
  • Hong-Bin Shen
    Institute of Image Processing and Pattern Recognition, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200240, People's Republic of China. hbshen@sjtu.edu.cn.