“…Then, research on its theoretical and application aspects thrived. It has been applied in a wide range of problems, including text categorization (de Vel et al, 2001;Kim et al, 2001), image classification and object detection (Ben-Yacoub et al, 1999;Karlsen et al, 2000), flood stage forecasting (Liong and Sivapragasam, 2002), microarray gene expression data analysis (Brown et al, 2000), drug design (Zhao et al, 2006a(Zhao et al, , 2006b, protein solvent accessibility prediction (Yuan et al, 2002), and protein fold prediction (Ding and Dubchak, 2001;Hua and Sun, 2001). Many studies have demonstrated that SVM was consistently superior to other supervised learning methods (Brown et al, 2000;Burbidge et al, 2001;Cai et al, 2003).…”