The identification of disease specific genes is pivotal in clinical informatics. This paper describes an improved algorithm for machine learning in which the negative N is classified more appropriately as Unknown U.
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| English: Weka Data Mining Open Software in Java (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
Peng Yang, Xiao-Li Li, Jian-Ping Mei, Chee-Keong Kwoh, and See-Kiong Ng. Positive-Unlabeled Learning for Disease Gene Identification
Bioinformatics first published online August 24, 2012 doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/bts504
SVMs are an important tool in bioinformaticians armamentarium. Weka is a collection of machine learning algorithms for data mining tasks.

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