Optimization enhanced genetic algorithm-support vector regression for the prediction of compound retention indices in gas chromatography

A new method using genetic algorithm and support vector regression with parameter optimization (GASVRPO) was developed for the prediction of compound retention indices (RI) in gas chromatography. The dataset used in this work consists of 252 compounds extracted from the Molecular Operating Environment (MOE) boiling point database. Molecular descriptors were calculated by descriptor tools of the MOE software package. After removing redundant descriptors, 151 descriptors were obtained for each compound. A genetic algorithm (GA) was used to select the best subset of molecular descriptors and the best parameters of SVR to optimize the prediction performance of compound retention indices. A 10-fold cross-validation method was used to evaluate the prediction performance. We compared the performance of our proposed model with three existing methods: GA coupled with multiple linear regression (GAMLR), the subset selected by GAMLR used to train SVR (GAMLRSVR), and GA on SVR (GASVR). The experimental results demonstrate that our proposed GASVRPO model has better predictive performance than other existing models with R2>0.967 and RMSE=49.94. The prediction accuracy of GASVRPO model is 96% at 10% of prediction variation.

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