... exploring combinations of descriptors vii LIST OF TABLES Table 1: Protein descriptors commonly used for predicting protein functional families 44 Table 2: The division of amino acids into three ... Machine learning-based approaches 1.2 Introduction to Machine Learning 10 1.2.1 Components of machine learning 11 1.2.3 Categories of machine learning ... current thesis Ong, A.K.S., H H Lin, Y.Z Chen, Z.R Li and Z.W Cao, Efficacy of different protein descriptors in predicting protein functional families BMC Bioinformatics, accepted, 2007 B Publications...