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Ten quick tips for machine learning in computational biology

Overview of attention for article published in BioData Mining, December 2017
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Title
Ten quick tips for machine learning in computational biology
Published in
BioData Mining, December 2017
DOI 10.1186/s13040-017-0155-3
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Authors

Davide Chicco

Abstract

Machine learning has become a pivotal tool for many projects in computational biology, bioinformatics, and health informatics. Nevertheless, beginners and biomedical researchers often do not have enough experience to run a data mining project effectively, and therefore can follow incorrect practices, that may lead to common mistakes or over-optimistic results. With this review, we present ten quick tips to take advantage of machine learning in any computational biology context, by avoiding some common errors that we observed hundreds of times in multiple bioinformatics projects. We believe our ten suggestions can strongly help any machine learning practitioner to carry on a successful project in computational biology and related sciences.

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Unknown 1142 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 219 19%
Researcher 170 15%
Student > Master 168 15%
Student > Bachelor 135 12%
Student > Doctoral Student 53 5%
Other 143 13%
Unknown 254 22%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 172 15%
Computer Science 172 15%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 131 11%
Engineering 112 10%
Medicine and Dentistry 52 5%
Other 196 17%
Unknown 307 27%
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