This Article proposes a novel chemometric approach to
understanding
and exploring the allergenic nature of food proteins. Using machine
learning methods (supervised and unsupervised), this work aims to
predict the allergenicity of plant proteins. The strategy is based
on scoring descriptors and testing their classification performance.
Partitioning was based on support vector machines (SVM), and a k-nearest neighbor (KNN) classifier was applied. A fivefold
cross-validation approach was used to validate the KNN classifier
in the variable selection step as well as the final classifier. To
overcome the problem of food allergies, a robust and efficient method
for protein classification is needed.
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