gkmsvm_train {gkmSVM}

Training the SVM model

Description

Using the kernel matrix created by 'gkmsvm_kernel', this function trains the SVM classifier. Here we rely on the 'kernlab' package, and merely provide a wrapper function.

Usage

gkmsvm_train(kernelfn, posfn, negfn, svmfnprfx,  Type="C-svc", C=1, shrinking=FALSE, ...)

Arguments

kernelfn

kernel matrix file name

posfn

positive sequences file name

negfn

negative sequences file name

svmfnprfx

output SVM model file name prefix

Type

optional: SVM type (default='C-svc'), see 'kernlab' documentation for more details.

C

optional: SVM parameter C (default=1), see 'kernlab' documentation for more details.

shrinking

optional: shrinking parameter for kernlab (default=FALSE), see 'kernlab' documentation for more details.

...

optional: additional SVM parameters, see 'kernlab' documentation for more details.

Details

Trains SVM classifier and generates two files: [svmfnprfx]_svalpha.out for SVM alphas and the other for the corresponding SV sequences ([svmfnprfx]_svseq.fa)

Author(s)

Mahmoud Ghandi

Examples

  #Input file names:  
  posfn= 'test_positives.fa'   #positive set (FASTA format)
  negfn= 'test_negatives.fa'   #negative set (FASTA format)
  testfn= 'test_testset.fa'    #test set (FASTA format)
  
  #Output file names:  
  kernelfn= 'test_kernel.txt' #kernel matrix
  svmfnprfx= 'test_svmtrain'  #SVM files 
  outfn =   'output.txt'      #output scores for sequences in the test set       

#  gkmsvm_kernel(posfn, negfn, kernelfn);                #computes kernel 
#  gkmsvm_train(kernelfn,posfn, negfn, svmfnprfx);       #trains SVM
#  gkmsvm_classify(testfn, svmfnprfx, outfn);            #scores test sequences