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CAFA-evaluator: a Python tool for benchmarking ontological classification methods
Damiano Piovesan1, Davide Zago2, Parnal Joshi2,3
1Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Padova, 35121 Padova, Italy.
Abstract:
We present CAFA-evaluator, a powerful Python program designed to evaluate the performance of prediction methods on targets with hierarchical concept dependencies. It generalizes multi-label evaluation to modern ontologies where the prediction targets are drawn from a directed acyclic graph and achieves high efficiency by leveraging matrix computation and topological sorting. The program requirements include a small number of standard Python libraries, making CAFA-evaluator easy to maintain. The code replicates the Critical Assessment of protein Function Annotation (CAFA) benchmarking, which evaluates predictions of the consistent subgraphs in Gene Ontology. Owing to its reliability and accuracy, the organizers have selected CAFA-evaluator as the official CAFA evaluation software.
Availability And Implementation:
https://pypi.org/project/cafaeval.
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