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8.5 Target Prediction Ensemble Analysis Results<br />

Table 8.2: Single prediction algorithm ensemble analysis results. Displayed in<br />

descending order <strong>of</strong> E-score.<br />

Prediction name E-score<br />

ElMMo 0,3181<br />

Diana-microT 0,3122<br />

PITA 0,3088<br />

TargetscanS 0,3073<br />

PicTar 6 0,3020<br />

miRBase 0,3008<br />

PicTar 5 0,2989<br />

miRanda 0,2979<br />

targeted by all 258 microRNAs. This scoring system takes into consideration<br />

the possibility that not all prediction algorithms necessarily predict the target-<br />

ing for all the 258 up-regulated microRNAs, by always measuring the accuracy<br />

<strong>of</strong> a prediction set over the number <strong>of</strong> genes <strong>of</strong> the background gene list that<br />

are predicted by a particular algorithm.<br />

This analysis highlights the fact that very little improvement, in the order <strong>of</strong><br />

the thousandth, is achieved by combining prediction algorithms together. The<br />

highest scoring prediction algorithms as-singles are ElMMo and Diana-microT<br />

and when used in combination with other prediction algorithms the E-score<br />

<strong>of</strong> ElMMo always decreases, while the E-score <strong>of</strong> Diana-microT, in combina-<br />

tion with one or two other prediction algorithms, seems to slightly increase.<br />

This analysis reveals that the best performing combination <strong>of</strong> algorithms does<br />

not outperform the best scoring as-single algorithm ElMMo. However, this<br />

initial analysis should be followed by a series <strong>of</strong> other analysis in which other<br />

approaches for the evaluation <strong>of</strong> the score are taken, and the Minimum and<br />

Cumulative filters are taken into consideration as well. This approach would<br />

increase the number <strong>of</strong> combinations from the current 256 (2 8 ) because each<br />

combination <strong>of</strong> filters would have to be evaluated for all the 256 microRNAs<br />

and would therefore require a global energy combinatorial optimisation algo-<br />

rithm such as a genetic algorithm, whereby a search that mimics the process<br />

<strong>of</strong> natural evolution would be performed on a population <strong>of</strong> candidate solu-<br />

tions that evolve towards the best solution starting from a randomly selected<br />

population.<br />

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