What is a support vector machine?
Support vector machines (SVMs) are becoming popular in a wide variety of biological applications. But, what exactly are SVMs and how do they work? And what are their most promising applications in the life sciences?
Noble
William S
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Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, 1705 NE Pacific Street, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA. noble@gs.washington.edu
D000465:Algorithms; D019295:Computational Biology / Q000379:methods; D020411:Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis / Q000379:methods*; D010363:Pattern Recognition, Automated / Q000379:methods*