... typically use only a portion of these descriptors It has been found that, in some cases, selection of a proper subset of descriptors is useful for improving the performance of SVM.69-71 Therefore, there ... using SVM The performance of SVM critically depends on the diversity of samples in a training dataset and the appropriate representation of these samples The datasets used in many of the reported ... techniques, of which SVM as one of them In the following sections, the increasing applications of SVM in bioinformatics, specifically genomics, proteomics and metabonomics, are reviewed 1.1 Applications...