Liu, ZZ and Huang, JW and Wang, Y and Cao, DS (2018) ECoFFeS: A Software Using Evolutionary Computation for Feature Selection in Drug Discovery. IEEE Access, 6. pp. 20950-20963. DOI https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2018.2821441
Liu, ZZ and Huang, JW and Wang, Y and Cao, DS (2018) ECoFFeS: A Software Using Evolutionary Computation for Feature Selection in Drug Discovery. IEEE Access, 6. pp. 20950-20963. DOI https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2018.2821441
Liu, ZZ and Huang, JW and Wang, Y and Cao, DS (2018) ECoFFeS: A Software Using Evolutionary Computation for Feature Selection in Drug Discovery. IEEE Access, 6. pp. 20950-20963. DOI https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2018.2821441
Abstract
Feature selection is of particular importance in the field of drug discovery. Many methods have been put forward for feature selection during recent decades. Among them, evolutionary computation has gained increasing attention owing to its superior global search ability. However, there still lacks a simple and efficient software for drug developers to take advantage of evolutionary computation for feature selection. To remedy this issue, in this paper, a user-friendly and standalone software, named ECoFFeS, is developed. ECoFFeS is expected to lower the entry barrier for drug developers to deal with feature selection problems at hand by using evolutionary algorithms. To the best of our knowledge, it is the first software integrating a set of evolutionary algorithms (including two modified evolutionary algorithms proposed by the authors) with various evaluation combinations for feature selection. Specifically, ECoFFeS considers both single-objective and multi-objective evolutionary algorithms, and both regression- and classification-based models to meet different requirements. Five data sets in drug discovery are collected in ECoFFeS. In addition, to reduce the total analysis time, the parallel execution technique is incorporated into ECoFFeS. The source code of ECoFFeS can be available from https://github.com/JiaweiHuang/ECoFFeS/.
Item Type: | Article |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | Evolutionary computation; feature selection; drug discovery; single-objective optimization; multi-objective optimization; parallel execution |
Subjects: | Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science |
Divisions: | Faculty of Science and Health Faculty of Science and Health > Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, School of |
SWORD Depositor: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Date Deposited: | 26 Jun 2018 13:19 |
Last Modified: | 16 May 2024 19:23 |
URI: | http://repository.essex.ac.uk/id/eprint/22304 |
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