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BitterEN: A novel ensemble model for the identification of bitter peptide

2025· article· en· W4411407631 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueComputers in Biology and Medicine · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
TopicMachine Learning in Bioinformatics
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Saskatchewan
FundersNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of CanadaKing Saud University
KeywordsIdentification (biology)PeptideComputer scienceEnsemble forecastingComputational biologyArtificial intelligenceChemistryBiologyBiochemistryBotany

Abstract

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Bitter peptides are short amino acid chains that produce a bitter taste. These peptides are made primarily in food processing through the chemical reduction of peptides. The bitterness arises from the specific sequence of amino acids in peptides, which interact with the bitter taste receptors on the human tongue. These peptides influence nutrition and health, offering insights into protein digestion and bioactive advantages. Hence, correctly identifying bitter peptides is pivotal for revealing the biochemical properties of efficient medication. The computational approach is most suitable for identifying bitterness, where most studies obtained insufficient outcomes. Therefore, the current study developed an ensemble-based framework called "BitterEN", where we integrate the Gradient Boosting (GB) and Multi-layer Perception (MLP) methods. Our proposed method improved more than 3 % of accuracy compare to all of the state-of-the-arts methods, where the proposed approach achieved 0.995 accuracy in merged feature extractions with the Random Forest (RF) feature selection method. We used 50 iterations over the performance evaluation phases to enable a more exact generalization of model performance. In addition, we provided a convenient GitHub-based version of our bitter peptide identification. It highlights the practical applicability of these findings. We are optimistic that the proposed approach might benefit many fields, including healthcare development and nutritional science.

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Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.953
Threshold uncertainty score0.186

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

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Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.014
GPT teacher head0.324
Teacher spread0.310 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it