Using Feature Selection Filtering Methods for Binding Site Predictions

Currently the best algorithms for transcription factor binding site prediction are severely limited in accuracy. In previous work we applied classification techniques on predictions from 12 key prediction algorithms. In this paper, we investigate the classification results when 4 feature selection filtering methods are used. They are bi-normal separation, correlation coefficients, F-score and a cross entropy based algorithm. It is found that all 4 filtering methods perform equally well. Moreover, we show that the worst performing algorithms are not detrimental to the overall performance