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This is in part due to a divergence in the focus adopted by different works, which makes comparison difficult or even fuzzy. Second, there seems to be over-emphasis on the use of computationally demanding machine-learning methods, which runs counter to the surge in biological data. Analogous to the success of BLAST for sequence homology search, we believe that the ability to tap escalating quantity, quality and diversity of biological data is crucial to the success of automated function prediction as a useful instrument for the advancement of proteomic research. We address these problems by: (1) providing useful comparison between some prominent methods; (2) proposing Integrated Weighted Averaging (IWA)\u2014a scalable, efficient and flexible function prediction framework that integrates diverse information using simple weighting strategies and a local prediction method. The simplicity of the approach makes it possible to make predictions based on on-the-fly information fusion.<\/jats:p><jats:p>Results: In addition to its greater efficiency, IWA performs exceptionally well against existing approaches. In the presence of cross-genome information, which is overwhelming for existing approaches, IWA makes even better predictions. We also demonstrate the significance of appropriate weighting strategies in data integration.<\/jats:p><jats:p>Contact: \u00a0hnchua@i2r.a-star.edu.sg<\/jats:p><jats:p>Supplementary information: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1093\/bioinformatics\/btm520","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2007,11,30]],"date-time":"2007-11-30T01:29:20Z","timestamp":1196386160000},"page":"3364-3373","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":48,"title":["An efficient strategy for extensive integration of diverse biological data for protein function prediction"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"23","author":[{"given":"Hon Nian","family":"Chua","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"1 Graduate School for Integrative Sciences and Engineering and 2School of Computing, National University of Singapore, Singapore"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Wing-Kin","family":"Sung","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"1 Graduate School for Integrative Sciences and Engineering and 2School of Computing, National University of Singapore, Singapore"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Limsoon","family":"Wong","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"1 Graduate School for Integrative Sciences and Engineering and 2School of Computing, National University of Singapore, Singapore"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"286","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2007,12,15]]},"reference":[{"key":"2023041107435948900_","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"403","DOI":"10.1016\/S0022-2836(05)80360-2","article-title":"Basic local alignment search tool","volume":"215","author":"Altschul","year":"1990","journal-title":"J. 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