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DOME Registry: Implementing community-wide recommendations for reporting supervised machine learning in biology

Other Quantitative Biology 2024-08-19 v2

Abstract

Supervised machine learning (ML) is used extensively in biology and deserves closer scrutiny. The DOME recommendations aim to enhance the validation and reproducibility of ML research by establishing standards for key aspects such as data handling and processing, optimization, evaluation, and model interpretability. The recommendations help to ensure that key details are reported transparently by providing a structured set of questions. Here, we introduce the DOME Registry (URL: registry.dome-ml.org), a database that allows scientists to manage and access comprehensive DOME-related information on published ML studies. The registry uses external resources like ORCID, APICURON and the Data Stewardship Wizard to streamline the annotation process and ensure comprehensive documentation. By assigning unique identifiers and DOME scores to publications, the registry fosters a standardized evaluation of ML methods. Future plans include continuing to grow the registry through community curation, improving the DOME score definition and encouraging publishers to adopt DOME standards, promoting transparency and reproducibility of ML in the life sciences.

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@article{arxiv.2408.07721,
  title  = {DOME Registry: Implementing community-wide recommendations for reporting supervised machine learning in biology},
  author = {Omar Abdelghani Attafi and Damiano Clementel and Konstantinos Kyritsis and Emidio Capriotti and Gavin Farrell and Styliani-Christina Fragkouli and Leyla Jael Castro and András Hatos and Tom Lenaerts and Stanislav Mazurenko and Soroush Mozaffari and Franco Pradelli and Patrick Ruch and Castrense Savojardo and Paola Turina and Federico Zambelli and Damiano Piovesan and Alexander Miguel Monzon and Fotis Psomopoulos and Silvio C. E. Tosatto},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2408.07721},
  year   = {2024}
}
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