A voting scheme to improve the secondary structure prediction

This paper presents a novel approach, namely SSVS, to improve the secondary structure prediction of proteins. In this work, a Radial Basis Function Neural Network is trained to combine different answers found by different secondary structure prediction techniques to produce superior answers. SSVS is tested with three of the well-known benchmarks in this field. The results demonstrate the superiority of the proposed technique even in the case of formidable sequences.

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