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Table 3 Compared statistics, on the test set, between the integrated model and its single components: the SVM statistical model and the Benigni/Bossa structural alerts set for mutagenicity.

From: An open source multistep model to predict mutagenicity from statistical analysis and relevant structural alerts

Test set

(837 chemicals)

Benigni/Bossa

rulebase

SVM classifier

Integrated model

(max accuracy)

Integrated model

(min FNs)

accuracy:

78.3%

81.2%

82.1%

81.8%

sensitivity:

86%

84.1%

86.7%

89.7%

specificity:

69.6%

77.7%

76.3%

72%

SAs:

30

 

12

16

descriptors:

 

25

25

25

  1. To evaluate the structural alerts, the "official" (commissioned by JRC) Toxtree v. 1.60 implementation of the Benigni/Bossa rulebase has been used.