PANTHER Score: Protein-Affinity for Nucleic Target-binding, Hybridization, and Energy Regression

TABLE 2.

Performance metrics of various machine learning models on the stress set when correlating the PANTHER Scores with known experimental ΔG values

Model Stress set
r MAE rs ρ-value
Random Forest Regression 0.64 1.63 0.64 6.02 × 10−14
GBoosting Regression 0.59 1.97 0.56 1.34 × 10−10
Neural Network 0.53 2.01 0.59 7.03 × 10−12
Stacked Ensemble 0.59 1.68 0.59 3.02 × 10−12
XGBoosting Regression 0.59 1.67 0.59 8.54 × 10−12
Linear Regression 0.44 3.58 0.57 3.02 × 10−12
PredPRBA 0.18 2.16 0.19 0.05
PRA-Pred 0.18 2.10 0.25 9.19 × 10−3
  • Metrics include Pearson correlation coefficient (r), mean absolute error (MAE), Spearman's rank correlation coefficient (rs), and ρ-value. Random Forest Regression demonstrates the highest predictive accuracy on both data sets. The table also includes the performance achieved by the other two tested methods (i.e., PredPRBA and PRA-Pred), which will be discussed in the subsection “Comparison of PANTHER Score with existing functional software.”

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