Do the data files distributed with the training set describe the test set instances in addition to the training set instances?
Yes. The abstracts, protein-protein interactions, localization values, function values and aliases represent knowledge about all of the genes in yeast. The test set to be provided will consist solely of a list of gene identifiers. All of the information required to instantiate features for the test set instances is in the data files that were included with the training instances. • Are the MEDLINE abstracts meant to be used as input data? Yes, in fact it is probably necessary to use them to get competitive accuracies. • Why do the abstracts often contain references to gene names followed by a “p”. For example, abstract 10022848 references “sec4p” and “sec15p”, but the file gene-abstracts.txt associates this abstract with the genes “sec4” and “sec15”. The “p” suffix is often used to refer to the protein encoded by a given gene. For example, “sec4p” denotes the protein encoded by the gene “sec4”. Since the protein is the “product” of the gene, you can think of references to “sec4p” as sa
