title: In-silico prediction of blood-secretory human proteins using a ranking algorithm.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Computational identification of blood-secretory proteins, especially proteins with differentially expressed genes in diseased tissues, can provide highly useful information in linking transcriptomic data to proteomic studies for targeted disease biomarker discovery in serum.
  
  
  RESULTS
  A new algorithm for prediction of blood-secretory proteins is presented using an information-retrieval technique, called manifold ranking. On a dataset containing 305 known blood-secretory human proteins and a large number of other proteins that are either not blood-secretory or unknown, the new method performs better than the previous published method, measured in terms of the area under the recall-precision curve (AUC). A key advantage of the presented method is that it does not explicitly require a negative training set, which could often be noisy or difficult to derive for most biological problems, hence making our method more applicable than classification-based data mining methods in general biological studies.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  We believe that our program will prove to be very useful to biomedical researchers who are interested in finding serum markers, especially when they have candidate proteins derived through transcriptomic or proteomic analyses of diseased tissues. A computer program is developed for prediction of blood-secretory proteins based on manifold ranking, which is accessible at our website http://csbl.bmb.uga.edu/publications/materials/qiliu/blood_secretory_protein.html.
authors.affiliation: Computational Systems Biology Laboratory, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and Institute of Bioinformatics, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA.
authors.forename: Qi
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Juan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Cui
authors.forename: Qiang
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: Ying
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Xu
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D001798:Blood Proteins / Q000737:chemistry*; D057225:Data Mining; D030562:Databases, Protein; D006801:Humans; D020543:Proteome / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism; D040901:Proteomics / Q000379:methods
chemical_list: D001798:Blood Proteins; D020543:Proteome
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