“…For further verifying the effectiveness of our method, we compared ACPPfel with the existing methods including ACP-DL ( Yi et al, 2019 ), DeepACPpred ( Lane and Kahanda, 2021 ), ACP-MHCNN ( Ahmed et al, 2021 ), GRCI-Net ( You et al, 2022 ), StackACPred ( Mishra et al, 2019 ) on the cross-validation datasets and iACP ( Chen et al, 2016 ), PEPred-Suite ( Wei et al, 2019 ), ACPpred-Fuse ( Rao et al, 2020b ), ACPred-FL ( Wei et al, 2018 ), ACPred ( Schaduangrat et al, 2019 ), AntiCP ( Kumar and Li, 2017 ), DeepACPpred, AntiCP_2.0 ( Agrawal et al, 2021b ), iACP-DRLF ( Lv et al, 2021b ), ME-ACP ( Feng et al, 2022 ) on alternative independent datasets.…”