Retraction notice to “Identifying halophilic proteins based on random forests with preprocessing of the pseudo-amino acid composition” [J. Theor. Biol. 361 (2014) 175–181].

This article has been retracted: please see Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal (http://www.elsevier.com/locate/withdrawalpolicy).This article has been retracted at the request of the authors. When using the resampling method to preprocess the raw data of the paper used, some of the types of the proteins (i.e., the HI, HO and NP) were changed; thus, the predicting accuracy cannot reflect the real results. This means the effectiveness of resampling methods in this article gives false results. The Publisher apologizes for any inconvenience this may cause.