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Table 3 Performance evaluation of the SVM models trained with various features based on independent testing dataset (3732 ubiquitylation sites and 10,664 non-ubiquitylation sites)

From: UbiSite: incorporating two-layered machine learning method with substrate motifs to predict ubiquitin-conjugation site on lysines

Training features

Sensitivity

Specificity

Accuracy

MCC

20D binary coding (20D)

62.59 %

65.85 %

65.00 %

0.253

Amino Acid Composition (AAC)

66.37 %

64.63 %

65.08 %

0.274

Amino Acid Pair Composition (AAPC)

69.05 %

69.05 %

69.05 %

0.340

Position Weight Matrix (PWM)

73.90 %

67.29 %

69.01 %

0.364

Position-Specific Scoring Matrix (PSSM)

73.20 %

68.45 %

69.68 %

0.369

Solvent-Accessible Surface Area (SASA)

63.91 %

61.36 %

62.02 %

0.223

Secondary Structure (SS)

55.60 %

51.34 %

52.45 %

0.061