PredictEFC: a fast and efficient multi-label classifier for predicting enzyme family classes.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Enzymes play an irreplaceable and important role in maintaining the lives of living organisms. The Enzyme Commission (EC) number of an enzyme indicates its essential functions. Correct identification of the first digit (family class) of the EC number for a given enzyme is a hot topic in the past twenty years. Several previous methods adopted functional domain composition to represent enzymes. However, it would lead to dimension disaster, thereby reducing the efficiency of the methods. On the other hand, most previous methods can only deal with enzymes belonging to one family class. In fact, several enzymes belong to two or more family classes.

Results

In this study, a fast and efficient multi-label classifier, named PredictEFC, was designed. To construct this clas

SUBMITTER: Chen L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10829269 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature