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Our deep neural network is then trained through using 1450 proteins from the dataset DIS1616 and the trained neural network is tested on the remaining 166 proteins. Our trained neural network is also tested on the blind test set R80 and MXD494 to further demonstrate the performance of our model. The MCC value of our trained deep neural network is 0.5132 on the test set DIS166, 0.5270 on the blind test set R80 and 0.4577 on the blind test set MXD494. 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