{
  "id": 215675,
  "title": "Which Proteins Are We Detecting?",
  "url": "/competitions/hpa-single-cell-image-classification/discussion/215675",
  "author_name": "Darien Schettler",
  "post_date": "2021-01-30T18:45:31.619000",
  "votes": 3,
  "comment_count": 3,
  "views": 0,
  "content": "<p>Hi there.</p>\n<p>As a point of curiosity, can we find out (or do we know) what the various \"proteins of interest\" are that we are identifying?</p>\n<p>I know for instance I would assume the proteins responsible for Apoptosis might be of interest.</p>",
  "messages": [
    {
      "id": 1178336,
      "postDate": "2021-01-30T19:51:49.123Z",
      "content": "<p>Good question! We cannot tell you exactly what the proteins are now. All we can say is that in this competition a large part of all human proteins are included in either the train or test set. These proteins are involved in a variety of biological processes.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Good question! We cannot tell you exactly what the proteins are now. All we can say is that in this competition a large part of all human proteins are included in either the train or test set. These proteins are involved in a variety of biological processes.",
      "votes": 3
    },
    {
      "id": 1178240,
      "postDate": "2021-01-30T18:45:31.620Z",
      "content": "<p>Hi there.</p>\n<p>As a point of curiosity, can we find out (or do we know) what the various \"proteins of interest\" are that we are identifying?</p>\n<p>I know for instance I would assume the proteins responsible for Apoptosis might be of interest.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Hi there.\n\nAs a point of curiosity, can we find out (or do we know) what the various \"proteins of interest\" are that we are identifying?\n\nI know for instance I would assume the proteins responsible for Apoptosis might be of interest.",
      "votes": 3
    },
    {
      "id": 1218567,
      "postDate": "2021-02-26T02:10:19.970Z",
      "content": "<p>Knowing the protein of interest will make the problem easier -- and makes this problem practical! I don't understand why the name of the protein of interest is not listed as part of the file (blue channel?) </p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Knowing the protein of interest will make the problem easier -- and makes this problem practical! I don't understand why the name of the protein of interest is not listed as part of the file (blue channel?) ",
      "replies": [
        {
          "id": 1218754,
          "postDate": "2021-02-26T07:19:12.250Z",
          "content": "<p>It's important to keep in mind that we do this as part of discovering and understanding unknown proteins in laboratory research. While the protein information could potentially be used as input to better performance in this challenge, it would not give us better performance in the instances where we are hoping to be able to use the models from this challenge as the information may not always be available.</p>",
          "rawMarkdown": "It's important to keep in mind that we do this as part of discovering and understanding unknown proteins in laboratory research. While the protein information could potentially be used as input to better performance in this challenge, it would not give us better performance in the instances where we are hoping to be able to use the models from this challenge as the information may not always be available.",
          "votes": 1
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "comments": [
    {
      "id": 1178336,
      "author_name": "Emma Lundberg",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "2021-01-30T19:51:49.123000",
      "content": "<p>Good question! We cannot tell you exactly what the proteins are now. All we can say is that in this competition a large part of all human proteins are included in either the train or test set. These proteins are involved in a variety of biological processes.</p>",
      "votes": 3,
      "replies": []
    },
    {
      "id": 1218567,
      "author_name": "Son Pham",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "2021-02-26T02:10:19.970000",
      "content": "<p>Knowing the protein of interest will make the problem easier -- and makes this problem practical! I don't understand why the name of the protein of interest is not listed as part of the file (blue channel?) </p>",
      "votes": 0,
      "replies": [
        {
          "id": 1218754,
          "author_name": "Emma Lundberg",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "2021-02-26T07:19:12.250000",
          "content": "<p>It's important to keep in mind that we do this as part of discovering and understanding unknown proteins in laboratory research. While the protein information could potentially be used as input to better performance in this challenge, it would not give us better performance in the instances where we are hoping to be able to use the models from this challenge as the information may not always be available.</p>",
          "votes": 1,
          "replies": []
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "raw_markdown_by_id": {
    "1178336": "Good question! We cannot tell you exactly what the proteins are now. All we can say is that in this competition a large part of all human proteins are included in either the train or test set. These proteins are involved in a variety of biological processes.",
    "1178240": "Hi there.\n\nAs a point of curiosity, can we find out (or do we know) what the various \"proteins of interest\" are that we are identifying?\n\nI know for instance I would assume the proteins responsible for Apoptosis might be of interest.",
    "1218567": "Knowing the protein of interest will make the problem easier -- and makes this problem practical! I don't understand why the name of the protein of interest is not listed as part of the file (blue channel?) "
  }
}