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Yao Z, Li F, Xie W, Chen J, Wu J, Zhan Y, Wu X, Wang Z, Zhang G. DeepSF-4mC: A deep learning model for predicting DNA cytosine 4mC methylation sites leveraging sequence features. Comput Biol Med 2024; 171:108166. [PMID: 38382385 DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2024.108166] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/06/2023] [Revised: 02/15/2024] [Accepted: 02/15/2024] [Indexed: 02/23/2024]
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N4-methylcytosine (4mC) is a DNA modification involving the addition of a methyl group to the fourth nitrogen atom of the cytosine base. This modification may influence gene regulation, providing potential insights into gene control mechanisms. Traditional laboratory methods for detecting 4mC DNA methylation have limitations, but the rise of artificial intelligence has introduced efficient computational strategies for 4mC site prediction. Despite this progress, challenges persist in terms of model performance and interpretability. To tackle these challenges, we propose DeepSF-4mC, a deep learning model specifically designed for predicting DNA cytosine 4mC methylation sites by leveraging sequence features. Our approach incorporates multiple encoding techniques to enhance prediction accuracy, increase model stability, and reduce the computational resources needed. Leveraging transfer learning, we harness existing models to enhance performance through learned representations or fine-tuning. Ensemble learning techniques combine predictions from multiple models, boosting robustness and accuracy. This research contributes to DNA methylation analysis and lays the groundwork for understanding 4mC's multifaceted role in biological processes. The web server for DeepSF-4mC is accessible at: http://deepsf-4mc.top/and the original code can be found at: https://github.com/754131799/DeepSF-4mC.
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- Zhaomin Yao
- Department of Nuclear Medicine, General Hospital of Northern Theater Command, Shenyang, Liaoning, 110016, China; College of Medicine and Biological Information Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang, Liaoning, 110167, China
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- College of Computer Science and Technology, Jilin University, Changchun, Jilin, 130012, China
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine, General Hospital of Northern Theater Command, Shenyang, Liaoning, 110016, China; College of Medicine and Biological Information Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang, Liaoning, 110167, China
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine, General Hospital of Northern Theater Command, Shenyang, Liaoning, 110016, China; College of Medicine and Biological Information Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang, Liaoning, 110167, China
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine, General Hospital of Northern Theater Command, Shenyang, Liaoning, 110016, China; College of Medicine and Biological Information Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang, Liaoning, 110167, China
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine, General Hospital of Northern Theater Command, Shenyang, Liaoning, 110016, China; College of Medicine and Biological Information Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang, Liaoning, 110167, China
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine, General Hospital of Northern Theater Command, Shenyang, Liaoning, 110016, China
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine, General Hospital of Northern Theater Command, Shenyang, Liaoning, 110016, China; College of Medicine and Biological Information Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang, Liaoning, 110167, China.
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine, General Hospital of Northern Theater Command, Shenyang, Liaoning, 110016, China; College of Medicine and Biological Information Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang, Liaoning, 110167, China.
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Srivastava S, Jain P. Computational Approaches: A New Frontier in Cancer Research. Comb Chem High Throughput Screen 2024; 27:1861-1876. [PMID: 38031782 DOI: 10.2174/0113862073265604231106112203] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/30/2023] [Revised: 09/08/2023] [Accepted: 09/21/2023] [Indexed: 12/01/2023]
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Cancer is a broad category of disease that can start in virtually any organ or tissue of the body when aberrant cells assault surrounding organs and proliferate uncontrollably. According to the most recent statistics, cancer will be the cause of 10 million deaths worldwide in 2020, accounting for one death out of every six worldwide. The typical approach used in anti-cancer research is highly time-consuming and expensive, and the outcomes are not particularly encouraging. Computational techniques have been employed in anti-cancer research to advance our understanding. Recent years have seen a significant and exceptional impact on anticancer research due to the rapid development of computational tools for novel drug discovery, drug design, genetic studies, genome characterization, cancer imaging and detection, radiotherapy, cancer metabolomics, and novel therapeutic approaches. In this paper, we examined the various subfields of contemporary computational techniques, including molecular docking, artificial intelligence, bioinformatics, virtual screening, and QSAR, and their applications in the study of cancer.
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- Shubham Srivastava
- Department of Pharmacy, IIMT College of Pharmacy, Uttar Pradesh, 201310, India
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- Department of Pharmacy, IIMT College of Pharmacy, Uttar Pradesh, 201310, India
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Yang Z, Wang Y, Ni X, Yang S. DeepDRP: Prediction of intrinsically disordered regions based on integrated view deep learning architecture from transformer-enhanced and protein information. Int J Biol Macromol 2023; 253:127390. [PMID: 37827403 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2023.127390] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/19/2023] [Revised: 09/20/2023] [Accepted: 10/09/2023] [Indexed: 10/14/2023]
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Intrinsic disorder in proteins, a widely distributed phenomenon in nature, is related to many crucial biological processes and various diseases. Traditional determination methods tend to be costly and labor-intensive, therefore it is desirable to seek an accurate identification method of intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs). In this paper, we proposed a novel Deep learning model for Intrinsically Disordered Regions in Proteins named DeepDRP. DeepDRP employed an innovative TimeDistributed strategy and Bi-LSTM architecture to predict IDPs and is driven by integrated view features of PSSM, Energy-based encoding, AAindex, and transformer-enhanced embeddings including DR-BERT, OntoProtein, Prot-T5, and ESM-2. The comparison of different feature combinations indicates that the transformer-enhanced features contribute far more than traditional features to predict IDPs and ESM-2 accounts for a larger contribution in the pre-trained fusion vectors. The ablation test verified that the TimeDistributed strategy surely increased the model performance and is an efficient approach to the IDP prediction. Compared with eight state-of-the-art methods on the DISORDER723, S1, and DisProt832 datasets, the Matthews correlation coefficient of DeepDRP significantly outperformed competing methods by 4.90 % to 36.20 %, 11.80 % to 26.33 %, and 4.82 % to 13.55 %. In brief, DeepDRP is a reliable model for IDP prediction and is freely available at https://github.com/ZX-COLA/DeepDRP.
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- Zexi Yang
- School of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Aliyun School of Big Data School of Software, Changzhou University, Changzhou 213164, China
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- Key Laboratory of Symbol Computation and Knowledge Engineering of Ministry of Education, College of Computer Science and Technology, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China; School of Artificial Intelligence, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China
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- The Affiliated Changzhou No. 2 People's Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Changzhou 213164, China
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- School of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Aliyun School of Big Data School of Software, Changzhou University, Changzhou 213164, China; The Affiliated Changzhou No. 2 People's Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Changzhou 213164, China.
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Jia J, Cao X, Wei Z. DLC-ac4C: A Prediction Model for N4-acetylcytidine Sites in Human mRNA Based on DenseNet and Bidirectional LSTM Methods. Curr Genomics 2023; 24:171-186. [PMID: 38178985 PMCID: PMC10761336 DOI: 10.2174/0113892029270191231013111911] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/03/2023] [Revised: 09/13/2023] [Accepted: 09/21/2023] [Indexed: 01/06/2024] Open
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Introduction N4 acetylcytidine (ac4C) is a highly conserved nucleoside modification that is essential for the regulation of immune functions in organisms. Currently, the identification of ac4C is primarily achieved using biological methods, which can be time-consuming and labor-intensive. In contrast, accurate identification of ac4C by computational methods has become a more effective method for classification and prediction. Aim To the best of our knowledge, although there are several computational methods for ac4C locus prediction, the performance of the models they constructed is poor, and the network structure they used is relatively simple and suffers from the disadvantage of network degradation. This study aims to improve these limitations by proposing a predictive model based on integrated deep learning to better help identify ac4C sites. Methods In this study, we propose a new integrated deep learning prediction framework, DLC-ac4C. First, we encode RNA sequences based on three feature encoding schemes, namely C2 encoding, nucleotide chemical property (NCP) encoding, and nucleotide density (ND) encoding. Second, one-dimensional convolutional layers and densely connected convolutional networks (DenseNet) are used to learn local features, and bi-directional long short-term memory networks (Bi-LSTM) are used to learn global features. Third, a channel attention mechanism is introduced to determine the importance of sequence characteristics. Finally, a homomorphic integration strategy is used to limit the generalization error of the model, which further improves the performance of the model. Results The DLC-ac4C model performed well in terms of sensitivity (Sn), specificity (Sp), accuracy (Acc), Mathews correlation coefficient (MCC), and area under the curve (AUC) for the independent test data with 86.23%, 79.71%, 82.97%, 66.08%, and 90.42%, respectively, which was significantly better than the prediction accuracy of the existing methods. Conclusion Our model not only combines DenseNet and Bi-LSTM, but also uses the channel attention mechanism to better capture hidden information features from a sequence perspective, and can identify ac4C sites more effectively.
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- Jianhua Jia
- School of Information Engineering, Jingdezhen Ceramic University, Jingdezhen, 333403, China
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- School of Information Engineering, Jingdezhen Ceramic University, Jingdezhen, 333403, China
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- School of Information Engineering, Jingdezhen Ceramic University, Jingdezhen, 333403, China
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Sun M, Hu H, Pang W, Zhou Y. ACP-BC: A Model for Accurate Identification of Anticancer Peptides Based on Fusion Features of Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory and Chemically Derived Information. Int J Mol Sci 2023; 24:15447. [PMID: 37895128 PMCID: PMC10607064 DOI: 10.3390/ijms242015447] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/12/2023] [Revised: 09/10/2023] [Accepted: 10/20/2023] [Indexed: 10/29/2023] Open
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Anticancer peptides (ACPs) have been proven to possess potent anticancer activities. Although computational methods have emerged for rapid ACPs identification, their accuracy still needs improvement. In this study, we propose a model called ACP-BC, a three-channel end-to-end model that utilizes various combinations of data augmentation techniques. In the first channel, features are extracted from the raw sequence using a bidirectional long short-term memory network. In the second channel, the entire sequence is converted into a chemical molecular formula, which is further simplified using Simplified Molecular Input Line Entry System notation to obtain deep abstract features through a bidirectional encoder representation transformer (BERT). In the third channel, we manually selected four effective features according to dipeptide composition, binary profile feature, k-mer sparse matrix, and pseudo amino acid composition. Notably, the application of chemical BERT in predicting ACPs is novel and successfully integrated into our model. To validate the performance of our model, we selected two benchmark datasets, ACPs740 and ACPs240. ACP-BC achieved prediction accuracy with 87% and 90% on these two datasets, respectively, representing improvements of 1.3% and 7% compared to existing state-of-the-art methods on these datasets. Therefore, systematic comparative experiments have shown that the ACP-BC can effectively identify anticancer peptides.
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- Mingwei Sun
- Key Laboratory of Symbol Computation and Knowledge Engineering of Ministry of Education, College of Computer Science and Technology, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China; (M.S.); (H.H.)
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- Key Laboratory of Symbol Computation and Knowledge Engineering of Ministry of Education, College of Computer Science and Technology, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China; (M.S.); (H.H.)
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- School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh EH14 4AS, UK;
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- Key Laboratory of Symbol Computation and Knowledge Engineering of Ministry of Education, College of Computer Science and Technology, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China; (M.S.); (H.H.)
- College of Software, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China
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Jia J, Wei Z, Cao X. EMDL-ac4C: identifying N4-acetylcytidine based on ensemble two-branch residual connection DenseNet and attention. Front Genet 2023; 14:1232038. [PMID: 37519885 PMCID: PMC10372626 DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2023.1232038] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/31/2023] [Accepted: 06/29/2023] [Indexed: 08/01/2023] Open
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Introduction: N4-acetylcytidine (ac4C) is a critical acetylation modification that has an essential function in protein translation and is associated with a number of human diseases. Methods: The process of identifying ac4C sites by biological experiments is too cumbersome and costly. And the performance of several existing computational models needs to be improved. Therefore, we propose a new deep learning tool EMDL-ac4C to predict ac4C sites, which uses a simple one-hot encoding for a unbalanced dataset using a downsampled ensemble deep learning network to extract important features to identify ac4C sites. The base learner of this ensemble model consists of a modified DenseNet and Squeeze-and-Excitation Networks. In addition, we innovatively add a convolutional residual structure in parallel with the dense block to achieve the effect of two-layer feature extraction. Results: The average accuracy (Acc), mathews correlation coefficient (MCC), and area under the curve Area under curve of EMDL-ac4C on ten independent testing sets are 80.84%, 61.77%, and 87.94%, respectively. Discussion: Multiple experimental comparisons indicate that EMDL-ac4C outperforms existing predictors and it greatly improved the predictive performance of the ac4C sites. At the same time, EMDL-ac4C could provide a valuable reference for the next part of the study. The source code and experimental data are available at: https://github.com/13133989982/EMDLac4C.
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- Jianhua Jia
- *Correspondence: Jianhua Jia, ; Zhangying Wei,
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Shen J, Wang Q, Mao Y, Gao W, Duan S. Targeting the p53 signaling pathway in cancers: Molecular mechanisms and clinical studies. MedComm (Beijing) 2023; 4:e288. [PMID: 37256211 PMCID: PMC10225743 DOI: 10.1002/mco2.288] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/18/2022] [Revised: 04/25/2023] [Accepted: 05/08/2023] [Indexed: 06/01/2023] Open
Abstract
Tumor suppressor p53 can transcriptionally activate downstream genes in response to stress, and then regulate the cell cycle, DNA repair, metabolism, angiogenesis, apoptosis, and other biological responses. p53 has seven functional domains and 12 splice isoforms, and different domains and subtypes play different roles. The activation and inactivation of p53 are finely regulated and are associated with phosphorylation/acetylation modification and ubiquitination modification, respectively. Abnormal activation of p53 is closely related to the occurrence and development of cancer. While targeted therapy of the p53 signaling pathway is still in its early stages and only a few drugs or treatments have entered clinical trials, the development of new drugs and ongoing clinical trials are expected to lead to the widespread use of p53 signaling-targeted therapy in cancer treatment in the future. TRIAP1 is a novel p53 downstream inhibitor of apoptosis. TRIAP1 is the homolog of yeast mitochondrial intermembrane protein MDM35, which can play a tumor-promoting role by blocking the mitochondria-dependent apoptosis pathway. This work provides a systematic overview of recent basic research and clinical progress in the p53 signaling pathway and proposes that TRIAP1 is an important therapeutic target downstream of p53 signaling.
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- Jinze Shen
- Key Laboratory of Novel Targets and Drug Study for Neural Repair of Zhejiang ProvinceSchool of MedicineHangzhou City UniversityHangzhouZhejiangChina
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- Key Laboratory of Novel Targets and Drug Study for Neural Repair of Zhejiang ProvinceSchool of MedicineHangzhou City UniversityHangzhouZhejiangChina
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- Key Laboratory of Novel Targets and Drug Study for Neural Repair of Zhejiang ProvinceSchool of MedicineHangzhou City UniversityHangzhouZhejiangChina
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- Key Laboratory of Novel Targets and Drug Study for Neural Repair of Zhejiang ProvinceSchool of MedicineHangzhou City UniversityHangzhouZhejiangChina
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- Key Laboratory of Novel Targets and Drug Study for Neural Repair of Zhejiang ProvinceSchool of MedicineHangzhou City UniversityHangzhouZhejiangChina
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Li F, Liu S, Li K, Zhang Y, Duan M, Yao Z, Zhu G, Guo Y, Wang Y, Huang L, Zhou F. EpiTEAmDNA: Sequence feature representation via transfer learning and ensemble learning for identifying multiple DNA epigenetic modification types across species. Comput Biol Med 2023; 160:107030. [PMID: 37196456 DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2023.107030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/02/2023] [Revised: 04/21/2023] [Accepted: 05/10/2023] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
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Methylation is a major DNA epigenetic modification for regulating the biological processes without altering the DNA sequence, and multiple types of DNA methylations have been discovered, including 6mA, 5hmC, and 4mC. Multiple computational approaches were developed to automatically identify the DNA methylation residues using machine learning or deep learning algorithms. The machine learning (ML) based methods are difficult to be transferred to the other predicting tasks of the DNA methylation sites using additional knowledge. Deep learning (DL) may facilitate the transfer learning of knowledge from similar tasks, but they are often ineffective on small datasets. This study proposes an integrated feature representation framework EpiTEAmDNA based on the strategies of transfer learning and ensemble learning, which is evaluated on multiple DNA methylation types across 15 species. EpiTEAmDNA integrates convolutional neural network (CNN) and conventional machine learning methods, and shows improved performances than the existing DL-based methods on small datasets when no additional knowledge is available. The experimental data suggests that the EpiTEAmDNA models may be further improved via transfer learning based on additional knowledge. The evaluation experiments on the independent test datasets also suggest that the proposed EpiTEAmDNA framework outperforms the existing models in most prediction tasks of the 3 DNA methylation types across 15 species. The source code, pre-trained global model, and the EpiTEAmDNA feature representation framework are freely available at http://www.healthinformaticslab.org/supp/.
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- Fei Li
- Key Laboratory of Symbolic Computation and Knowledge Engineering of Ministry of Education, Jilin University, Changchun, Jilin, 130012, China; College of Computer Science and Technology, Jilin University, Changchun, Jilin, 130012, China
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- Key Laboratory of Symbolic Computation and Knowledge Engineering of Ministry of Education, Jilin University, Changchun, Jilin, 130012, China; College of Computer Science and Technology, Jilin University, Changchun, Jilin, 130012, China
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- Key Laboratory of Symbolic Computation and Knowledge Engineering of Ministry of Education, Jilin University, Changchun, Jilin, 130012, China; College of Computer Science and Technology, Jilin University, Changchun, Jilin, 130012, China
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- Key Laboratory of Symbolic Computation and Knowledge Engineering of Ministry of Education, Jilin University, Changchun, Jilin, 130012, China; College of Computer Science and Technology, Jilin University, Changchun, Jilin, 130012, China
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- Key Laboratory of Symbolic Computation and Knowledge Engineering of Ministry of Education, Jilin University, Changchun, Jilin, 130012, China; College of Computer Science and Technology, Jilin University, Changchun, Jilin, 130012, China.
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- College of Medicine and Biological Information Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang, Liaoning, 110167, China
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- Key Laboratory of Symbolic Computation and Knowledge Engineering of Ministry of Education, Jilin University, Changchun, Jilin, 130012, China; College of Computer Science and Technology, Jilin University, Changchun, Jilin, 130012, China
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- College of Life Sciences, Jilin University, Changchun, Jilin, 130012, China
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- Key Laboratory of Symbolic Computation and Knowledge Engineering of Ministry of Education, Jilin University, Changchun, Jilin, 130012, China; College of Computer Science and Technology, Jilin University, Changchun, Jilin, 130012, China
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- Key Laboratory of Symbolic Computation and Knowledge Engineering of Ministry of Education, Jilin University, Changchun, Jilin, 130012, China; College of Computer Science and Technology, Jilin University, Changchun, Jilin, 130012, China
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- Key Laboratory of Symbolic Computation and Knowledge Engineering of Ministry of Education, Jilin University, Changchun, Jilin, 130012, China; College of Computer Science and Technology, Jilin University, Changchun, Jilin, 130012, China.
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