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DOI: 10.14569/IJACSA.2021.0121115
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DNA Profiling: An Investigation of Six Machine Learning Algorithms for Estimating the Number of Contributors in DNA Mixtures

Author 1: Hamdah Alotaibi
Author 2: Fawaz Alsolami
Author 3: Rashid Mehmood

International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications(IJACSA), Volume 12 Issue 11, 2021.

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Abstract: DNA (Deoxyribonucleic acid) profiling involves analysis of sequences of individual or mixed DNA profiles to identify persons these profiles belong to. DNA profiling is used in important applications such as for paternity tests, in forensic science for person identification on a crime scheme, etc. Finding the number of contributors in a DNA mixture is a major task in DNA profiling with challenges caused due to allele dropout, stutter, blobs, and noise. The existing methods for finding the number of unknowns in a DNA mixture suffer from issues including computational complexity and accuracy of estimating the number of unknowns. Machine learning has received attention recently in this area but with limited success. Many more efforts are needed for improving the robustness and accuracy of these methods. Our research aims to advance the state-of-the-art in this area. Specifically, in this paper, we investigate the performance of six machine learning algorithms -- Nearest Neighbors (KNN), Random Forest (RF), Support Vector Machine (SVM), Logistic Regression (LR), Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD), and Gaussian Naïve-Bayes (GNB) -- applied to a publicly available dataset called PROVEDIt, containing mixtures with up to five contributors. We evaluate the algorithmic performance using confusion matrices and four performance metrics namely accuracy, F1-Score, Recall, and Precision. The results show that LR provides the highest Accuracy of 95% for mixtures with five contributors.

Keywords: Machine learning; DNA profiling; DNA mixtures; forensic science

Hamdah Alotaibi, Fawaz Alsolami and Rashid Mehmood, “DNA Profiling: An Investigation of Six Machine Learning Algorithms for Estimating the Number of Contributors in DNA Mixtures” International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications(IJACSA), 12(11), 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2021.0121115

@article{Alotaibi2021,
title = {DNA Profiling: An Investigation of Six Machine Learning Algorithms for Estimating the Number of Contributors in DNA Mixtures},
journal = {International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications},
doi = {10.14569/IJACSA.2021.0121115},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2021.0121115},
year = {2021},
publisher = {The Science and Information Organization},
volume = {12},
number = {11},
author = {Hamdah Alotaibi and Fawaz Alsolami and Rashid Mehmood}
}



Copyright Statement: This is an open access article licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, even commercially as long as the original work is properly cited.

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