[BiO BB] a validation study

[Iddo Friedberg]

l x yi wrote:

>I have developed a new method for searching protein
>banks with PSSM (position-specific matrices). To do a
>validation analysis of the method on real protein
>sequences, I need to decide 
>
>-- a selection of some position-specific matrices for
>major protein domains
>-- a databank of single sequences
>-- a gold standard of which sequences truly belonged
>to which protein domain
>
>Could anyone suggest some reliable sources of
>references as to how to conduct this validation
>analysis? Any suggestions are appreciated. 
>
>Lily
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How about looking at the papers which have already used PSSM-based 
searching, and choosing your benchmarks from there?



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Iddo Friedberg, Ph.D.
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