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Wang C, Zou Q, Ju Y, Shi H. Enhancer-FRL: Improved and Robust Identification of Enhancers and Their Activities Using Feature Representation Learning. IEEE/ACM TRANSACTIONS ON COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY AND BIOINFORMATICS 2023; 20:967-975. [PMID: 36063523 DOI: 10.1109/tcbb.2022.3204365] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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Enhancers are crucial for precise regulation of gene expression, while enhancer identification and strength prediction are challenging because of their free distribution and tremendous number of similar fractions in the genome. Although several bioinformatics tools have been developed, shortfalls in these models remain, and their performances need further improvement. In the present study, a two-layer predictor called Enhancer-FRL was proposed for identifying enhancers (enhancers or nonenhancers) and their activities (strong and weak). More specifically, to build an efficient model, the feature representation learning scheme was applied to generate a 50D probabilistic vector based on 10 feature encodings and five machine learning algorithms. Subsequently, the multiview probabilistic features were integrated to construct the final prediction model. Compared with the single feature-based model, Enhancer-FRL showed significant performance improvement and model robustness. Performance assessment on the independent test dataset indicated that the proposed model outperformed state-of-the-art available toolkits. The webserver Enhancer-FRL is freely accessible at http://lab.malab.cn/∼wangchao/softwares/Enhancer-FRL/, The code and datasets can be downloaded at the webserver page or at the Github https://github.com/wangchao-malab/Enhancer-FRL/.
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Li H, Shi L, Gao W, Zhang Z, Zhang L, Wang G. dPromoter-XGBoost: Detecting promoters and strength by combining multiple descriptors and feature selection using XGBoost. Methods 2022; 204:215-222. [PMID: 34998983 DOI: 10.1016/j.ymeth.2022.01.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/19/2021] [Revised: 12/13/2021] [Accepted: 01/02/2022] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Promoters play an irreplaceable role in biological processes and genetics, which are responsible for stimulating the transcription and expression of specific genes. Promoter abnormalities have been found in some diseases, and the level of promoter-binding transcription factors can be used as a marker before a disease occurs. Hence, detecting promoters from DNA sequences has important biological significance, particular, distinguishing strong promoters can help to elucidate differences in gene expression and the mechanisms of specific diseases. With the introduction of third-generation sequencing, it is difficult to match the speed of sequencing to the speed of labeling promoters experimentally. Many computing models have been designed to fill this gap and identify unlabeled DNA. However, their feature representation methods are very singular, which cannot reflect the information contained in the original samples. With the aim of avoiding information loss, we propose a computational model based on multiple descriptors and feature selection to jointly express samples. It is worth mentioning that a new feature descriptor called K-mer word vector is defined. The promoter model of multiple feature descriptors dominated by K-mer word vector achieves similar performance to existing methods, the sensitivity of 85.72% can distinguish the promoter more effectively than other methods. Furthermore, the performance of the promoter strength has surpassed published methods, and accuracy of 77.00% greatly improves the ability to distinguish between strong and weak promoters.
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- Hongfei Li
- College of Information and Computer Engineering, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin, China; Yangtze Delta Region Institute, University of Electronic Science and Technology, Quzhou,China
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- Department of Spine Surgery, Changzheng Hospital, Naval Medical University, Shanghai, China
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- College of Information and Computer Engineering, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin, China
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- College of Information and Computer Engineering, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin, China
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- School of Intelligent Manufacturing and Equipment, Shenzhen Institute of Information Technology, Shenzhen, China
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- College of Information and Computer Engineering, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin, China.
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Guo Y, Wu C, Yuan Z, Wang Y, Liang Z, Wang Y, Zhang Y, Xu L. Gene-Based Testing of Interactions Using XGBoost in Genome-Wide Association Studies. Front Cell Dev Biol 2021; 9:801113. [PMID: 34977040 PMCID: PMC8716787 DOI: 10.3389/fcell.2021.801113] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/24/2021] [Accepted: 11/23/2021] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Among the myriad of statistical methods that identify gene–gene interactions in the realm of qualitative genome-wide association studies, gene-based interactions are not only powerful statistically, but also they are interpretable biologically. However, they have limited statistical detection by making assumptions on the association between traits and single nucleotide polymorphisms. Thus, a gene-based method (GGInt-XGBoost) originated from XGBoost is proposed in this article. Assuming that log odds ratio of disease traits satisfies the additive relationship if the pair of genes had no interactions, the difference in error between the XGBoost model with and without additive constraint could indicate gene–gene interaction; we then used a permutation-based statistical test to assess this difference and to provide a statistical p-value to represent the significance of the interaction. Experimental results on both simulation and real data showed that our approach had superior performance than previous experiments to detect gene–gene interactions.
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- Yingjie Guo
- Institute of Fundamental and Frontier Sciences, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China
- School of Electronic and Communication Engineering, Shenzhen Polytechnic, Shenzhen, China
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- Department of Mathematics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, United States
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- Research Institute of Big Data Science and Industry, Shanxi University, Taiyuan, China
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- Institute of Fundamental and Frontier Sciences, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China
- School of Electronic and Communication Engineering, Shenzhen Polytechnic, Shenzhen, China
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- School of Life Science, Shanxi University, Taiyuan, China
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- School of Electronic and Communication Engineering, Shenzhen Polytechnic, Shenzhen, China
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- Beidahuang Industry Group General Hospital, Harbin, China
- *Correspondence: Yi Zhang, ; Lei Xu,
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- School of Electronic and Communication Engineering, Shenzhen Polytechnic, Shenzhen, China
- *Correspondence: Yi Zhang, ; Lei Xu,
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Dou L, Zhou W, Zhang L, Xu L, Han K. Accurate identification of RNA D modification using multiple features. RNA Biol 2021; 18:2236-2246. [PMID: 33729104 PMCID: PMC8632091 DOI: 10.1080/15476286.2021.1898160] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/21/2020] [Revised: 02/13/2021] [Accepted: 02/23/2021] [Indexed: 10/21/2022] Open
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As one of the common post-transcriptional modifications in tRNAs, dihydrouridine (D) has prominent effects on regulating the flexibility of tRNA as well as cancerous diseases. Facing with the expensive and time-consuming sequencing techniques to detect D modification, precise computational tools can largely promote the progress of molecular mechanisms and medical developments. We proposed a novel predictor, called iRNAD_XGBoost, to identify potential D sites using multiple RNA sequence representations. In this method, by considering the imbalance problem using hybrid sampling method SMOTEEEN, the XGBoost-selected top 30 features are applied to construct model. The optimized model showed high Sn and Sp values of 97.13% and 97.38% over jackknife test, respectively. For the independent experiment, these two metrics separately achieved 91.67% and 94.74%. Compared with iRNAD method, this model illustrated high generalizability and consistent prediction efficiencies for positive and negative samples, which yielded satisfactory MCC scores of 0.94 and 0.86, respectively. It is inferred that the chemical property and nucleotide density features (CPND), electron-ion interaction pseudopotential (EIIP and PseEIIP) as well as dinucleotide composition (DNC) are crucial to the recognition of D modification. The proposed predictor is a promising tool to help experimental biologists investigate molecular functions.
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- Lijun Dou
- School of Automotive and Transportation Engineering, Shenzhen Polytechnic, Shenzhen, GuangdongChina
- Institute of Fundamental and Frontier Sciences, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, SichuanChina
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- School of Life Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, HeilongjiangChina
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- School of Intelligent Manufacturing and Equipment, Shenzhen Institute of Information Technology, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
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- School of Electronic and Communication Engineering, Shenzhen Polytechnic, Shenzhen, GuangdongChina
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- School of Computer and Information Engineering, Harbin University of Commerce, Harbin, HeilongjiangChina
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Ao C, Zou Q, Yu L. NmRF: identification of multispecies RNA 2'-O-methylation modification sites from RNA sequences. Brief Bioinform 2021; 23:6446272. [PMID: 34850821 DOI: 10.1093/bib/bbab480] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/09/2021] [Revised: 10/05/2021] [Accepted: 10/18/2021] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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2'-O-methylation (Nm) is a post-transcriptional modification of RNA that is catalyzed by 2'-O-methyltransferase and involves replacing the H on the 2'-hydroxyl group with a methyl group. The 2'-O-methylation modification site is detected in a variety of RNA types (miRNA, tRNA, mRNA, etc.), plays an important role in biological processes and is associated with different diseases. There are few functional mechanisms developed at present, and traditional high-throughput experiments are time-consuming and expensive to explore functional mechanisms. For a deeper understanding of relevant biological mechanisms, it is necessary to develop efficient and accurate recognition tools based on machine learning. Based on this, we constructed a predictor called NmRF based on optimal mixed features and random forest classifier to identify 2'-O-methylation modification sites. The predictor can identify modification sites of multiple species at the same time. To obtain a better prediction model, a two-step strategy is adopted; that is, the optimal hybrid feature set is obtained by combining the light gradient boosting algorithm and incremental feature selection strategy. In 10-fold cross-validation, the accuracies of Homo sapiens and Saccharomyces cerevisiae were 89.069 and 93.885%, and the AUC were 0.9498 and 0.9832, respectively. The rigorous 10-fold cross-validation and independent tests confirm that the proposed method is significantly better than existing tools. A user-friendly web server is accessible at http://lab.malab.cn/∼acy/NmRF.
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- Chunyan Ao
- School of Computer Science and Technology, Xidian University, Xi'an, China
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- Institute of Fundamental and Frontier Sciences, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China.,Yangtze Delta Region Institute (Quzhou), University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Quzhou, China
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- School of Computer Science and Technology, Xidian University, Xi'an, China
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Niu M, Wu J, Zou Q, Liu Z, Xu L. rBPDL:Predicting RNA-Binding Proteins Using Deep Learning. IEEE J Biomed Health Inform 2021; 25:3668-3676. [PMID: 33780344 DOI: 10.1109/jbhi.2021.3069259] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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RNA-binding protein (RBP) is a powerful and wide-ranging regulator that plays an important role in cell development, differentiation, metabolism, health and disease. The prediction of RBPs provides valuable guidance for biologists. Although experimental methods have made great progress in predicting RBP, they are time-consuming and not flexible. Therefore, we developed a network model, rBPDL, by combining a convolutional neural network and long short-term memory for multilabel classification of RBPs. Moreover, to achieve better prediction results, we used a voting algorithm for ensemble learning of the model. We compared rBPDL with state-of-the-art methods and found that rBPDL significantly improved identification performance for the RBP68 dataset, with a macro-Area Under Curve (AUC), micro-AUC, and weighted AUC of 0.936, 0.962, and 0.946, respectively. Furthermore, through AUC statistical analysis of the RBP domain, we analyzed the performance of rBPDL and found that the RBP identification performance in the same domain was similar. In addition, we analyzed the performance preferences and physicochemical properties of the binding protein amino acids and explored the characteristics that affect the binding by using the RBP86 dataset.
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Huang Q, Zhou W, Guo F, Xu L, Zhang L. 6mA-Pred: identifying DNA N6-methyladenine sites based on deep learning. PeerJ 2021; 9:e10813. [PMID: 33604189 PMCID: PMC7866889 DOI: 10.7717/peerj.10813] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/28/2020] [Accepted: 12/30/2020] [Indexed: 01/03/2023] Open
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With the accumulation of data on 6mA modification sites, an increasing number of scholars have begun to focus on the identification of 6mA sites. Despite the recognized importance of 6mA sites, methods for their identification remain lacking, with most existing methods being aimed at their identification in individual species. In the present study, we aimed to develop an identification method suitable for multiple species. Based on previous research, we propose a method for 6mA site recognition. Our experiments prove that the proposed 6mA-Pred method is effective for identifying 6mA sites in genes from taxa such as rice, Mus musculus, and human. A series of experimental results show that 6mA-Pred is an excellent method. We provide the source code used in the study, which can be obtained from http://39.100.246.211:5004/6mA_Pred/.
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- Qianfei Huang
- College of Intelligence and Computing, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China
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- School of Life Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China
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- College of Intelligence and Computing, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China
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- School of Electronic and Communication Engineering, Shenzhen Polytechnic, Shenzhen, China
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- School of Intelligent Manufacturing and Equipment, Shenzhen Institute of Information Technology, Shenzhen, China
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Recent Advances in Predicting Protein S-Nitrosylation Sites. BIOMED RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL 2021; 2021:5542224. [PMID: 33628788 PMCID: PMC7892234 DOI: 10.1155/2021/5542224] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/07/2021] [Revised: 01/24/2021] [Accepted: 01/25/2021] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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Protein S-nitrosylation (SNO) is a process of covalent modification of nitric oxide (NO) and its derivatives and cysteine residues. SNO plays an essential role in reversible posttranslational modifications of proteins. The accurate prediction of SNO sites is crucial in revealing a certain biological mechanism of NO regulation and related drug development. Identification of the sites of SNO in proteins is currently a very hot topic. In this review, we briefly summarize recent advances in computationally identifying SNO sites. The challenges and future perspectives for identifying SNO sites are also discussed. We anticipate that this review will provide insights into research on SNO site prediction.
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Wang Y, Wang P, Guo Y, Huang S, Chen Y, Xu L. prPred: A Predictor to Identify Plant Resistance Proteins by Incorporating k-Spaced Amino Acid (Group) Pairs. Front Bioeng Biotechnol 2021; 8:645520. [PMID: 33553134 PMCID: PMC7859348 DOI: 10.3389/fbioe.2020.645520] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/23/2020] [Accepted: 12/31/2020] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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To infect plants successfully, pathogens adopt various strategies to overcome their physical and chemical barriers and interfere with the plant immune system. Plants deploy a large number of resistance (R) proteins to detect invading pathogens. The R proteins are encoded by resistance genes that contain cell surface-localized receptors and intracellular receptors. In this study, a new plant R protein predictor called prPred was developed based on a support vector machine (SVM), which can accurately distinguish plant R proteins from other proteins. Experimental results showed that the accuracy, precision, sensitivity, specificity, F1-score, MCC, and AUC of prPred were 0.935, 1.000, 0.806, 1.000, 0.893, 0.857, and 0.948, respectively, on an independent test set. Moreover, the predictor integrated the HMMscan search tool and Phobius to identify protein domain families and transmembrane protein regions to differentiate subclasses of R proteins. prPred is available at https://github.com/Wangys-prog/prPred. The tool requires a valid Python installation and is run from the command line.
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- Yansu Wang
- School of Electronic and Communication Engineering, Shenzhen Polytechnic, Shenzhen, China
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- School of Life Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China
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- School of Electronic and Communication Engineering, Shenzhen Polytechnic, Shenzhen, China
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- Department of Neurology, The 2nd Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China
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- College of Information and Computer Engineering, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin, China
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- School of Electronic and Communication Engineering, Shenzhen Polytechnic, Shenzhen, China
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Liang G, Wu J, Xu L. A prognosis-related based method for miRNA selection on liver hepatocellular carcinoma prediction. Comput Biol Chem 2021; 91:107433. [PMID: 33540232 DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiolchem.2020.107433] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/24/2020] [Revised: 12/16/2020] [Accepted: 12/20/2020] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is considered as the sixth most common cancer in the world, and it is also considered as one of the causes of death. Moreover, the poor prognosis of recurrence of HCC after surgery and metastasis is also a big problem for human health. If the disease can be diagnosed earlier, the survival rate of the patients will be improved significantly. In the early stage of hepatocellular carcinoma, the expression of miRNAs is likely to become abnormal. In our work, the expression profile of miRNAs of human HCC in cancer tissue is compared with their adjacent tissue samples collected from tumor cancer genomic Atlas (TCGA) platform, then the genes with significant difference are selected by Limma test. Selected genes are referred to predict miRNAs related to the prognosis of HCC patients. Finally, miRNAs regulated by target genes are selected by our method, and the experimental results demonstrated that our method is more efficient than biology wet experimental method with lower cost.
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- Guangmin Liang
- School of Electronic and Communication Engineering, Shenzhen Polytechnic, Shenzhen, 518000, China
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- School of Management, Shenzhen Polytechnic, Shenzhen, 518000, China.
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- School of Electronic and Communication Engineering, Shenzhen Polytechnic, Shenzhen, 518000, China.
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Li J, Zhang L, He S, Guo F, Zou Q. SubLocEP: a novel ensemble predictor of subcellular localization of eukaryotic mRNA based on machine learning. Brief Bioinform 2021; 22:6059770. [PMID: 33388743 DOI: 10.1093/bib/bbaa401] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/02/2020] [Revised: 11/28/2020] [Accepted: 12/08/2020] [Indexed: 01/23/2023] Open
Abstract
MOTIVATION mRNA location corresponds to the location of protein translation and contributes to precise spatial and temporal management of the protein function. However, current assignment of subcellular localization of eukaryotic mRNA reveals important limitations: (1) turning multiple classifications into multiple dichotomies makes the training process tedious; (2) the majority of the models trained by classical algorithm are based on the extraction of single sequence information; (3) the existing state-of-the-art models have not reached an ideal level in terms of prediction and generalization ability. To achieve better assignment of subcellular localization of eukaryotic mRNA, a better and more comprehensive model must be developed. RESULTS In this paper, SubLocEP is proposed as a two-layer integrated prediction model for accurate prediction of the location of sequence samples. Unlike the existing models based on limited features, SubLocEP comprehensively considers additional feature attributes and is combined with LightGBM to generated single feature classifiers. The initial integration model (single-layer model) is generated according to the categories of a feature. Subsequently, two single-layer integration models are weighted (sequence-based: physicochemical properties = 3:2) to produce the final two-layer model. The performance of SubLocEP on independent datasets is sufficient to indicate that SubLocEP is an accurate and stable prediction model with strong generalization ability. Additionally, an online tool has been developed that contains experimental data and can maximize the user convenience for estimation of subcellular localization of eukaryotic mRNA.
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- School of Intelligent Manufacturing and Equipment, Shenzhen Institute of Information Technology
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Lv Z, Wang P, Zou Q, Jiang Q. Identification of Sub-Golgi protein localization by use of deep representation learning features. Bioinformatics 2020; 36:5600-5609. [PMID: 33367627 PMCID: PMC8023683 DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btaa1074] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/31/2020] [Revised: 12/10/2020] [Accepted: 12/14/2020] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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Motivation The Golgi apparatus has a key functional role in protein biosynthesis within the eukaryotic cell with malfunction resulting in various neurodegenerative diseases. For a better understanding of the Golgi apparatus, it is essential to identification of sub-Golgi protein localization. Although some machine learning methods have been used to identify sub-Golgi localization proteins by sequence representation fusion, more accurate sub-Golgi protein identification is still challenging by existing methodology. Results we developed a protein sub-Golgi localization identification protocol using deep representation learning features with 107 dimensions. By this protocol, we demonstrated that instead of multi-type protein sequence feature representation fusion as in previous state-of-the-art sub-Golgi-protein localization classifiers, it is sufficient to exploit only one type of feature representation for more accurately identification of sub-Golgi proteins. Compared with independent testing results for benchmark datasets, our protocol is able to perform generally, reliably and robustly for sub-Golgi protein localization prediction. Availabilityand implementation A use-friendly webserver is freely accessible at http://isGP-DRLF.aibiochem.net and the prediction code is accessible at https://github.com/zhibinlv/isGP-DRLF. Supplementary information Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
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- Zhibin Lv
- Institute of Fundamental and Frontier Sciences, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China
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- Center for Bioinformatics, School of Life Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, 150000, China
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- Institute of Fundamental and Frontier Sciences, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China.,Center for Informational Biology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China.,Yangtze Delta Region Institute (Quzhou), University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Quzhou, Zhejiang, China
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- Center for Bioinformatics, School of Life Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, 150000, China
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Zhang X, Ma H, Zou Q, Wu J. Analysis of Cyclin-Dependent Kinase 1 as an Independent Prognostic Factor for Gastric Cancer Based on Statistical Methods. Front Cell Dev Biol 2020; 8:620164. [PMID: 33365314 PMCID: PMC7750425 DOI: 10.3389/fcell.2020.620164] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/22/2020] [Accepted: 11/03/2020] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to investigate the expression of cyclin-dependent kinase 1 (CDK1) in gastric cancer (GC), evaluate its relationship with the clinicopathological features and prognosis of GC, and analyze the advantage of CDK1 as a potential independent prognostic factor for GC. METHODS The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) data and corresponding clinical features of GC were collected. First, the aim gene was selected by combining five topological analysis methods, where the gene expression in paracancerous and GC tissues was analyzed by Limma package and Wilcox test. Second, the correlation between gene expression and clinical features was analyzed by logistic regression. Finally, the survival analysis was carried out by using the Kaplan-Meier. The gene prognostic value was evaluated by univariate and multivariate Cox analyses, and the gene potential biological function was explored by gene set enrichment analysis (GSEA). RESULTS CDK1 was selected as one of the most important genes associated with GC. The expression level of CDK1 in GC tissues was significantly higher than that in paracancerous tissues, which was significantly correlated with pathological stage and grade. The survival rate of the CDK1 high expression group was significantly lower than that of the low expression group. CDK1 expression was significantly correlated with overall survival (OS). CDK1 expression was mainly involved in prostate cancer, small cell lung cancer, and GC and was enriched in the WNT signaling pathway and T cell receptor signaling pathway. CONCLUSION CDK1 may serve as an independent prognostic factor for GC. It is also expected to be a new target for molecular targeted therapy of GC.
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- Xu Zhang
- School of Mathematics and Statistics, Southwest University, Chongqing, China
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- School of Mathematics and Statistics, Southwest University, Chongqing, China
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- Institute of Fundamental and Frontier Sciences, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China
- Hainan Key Laboratory for Computational Science and Application, Hainan Normal University, Haikou, China
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- School of Management, Shenzhen Polytechnic, Shenzhen, China
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Li Y, Zhang Z, Teng Z, Liu X. PredAmyl-MLP: Prediction of Amyloid Proteins Using Multilayer Perceptron. COMPUTATIONAL AND MATHEMATICAL METHODS IN MEDICINE 2020; 2020:8845133. [PMID: 33294004 PMCID: PMC7700051 DOI: 10.1155/2020/8845133] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/14/2020] [Revised: 10/06/2020] [Accepted: 10/31/2020] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
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Amyloid is generally an aggregate of insoluble fibrin; its abnormal deposition is the pathogenic mechanism of various diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease and type II diabetes. Therefore, accurately identifying amyloid is necessary to understand its role in pathology. We proposed a machine learning-based prediction model called PredAmyl-MLP, which consists of the following three steps: feature extraction, feature selection, and classification. In the step of feature extraction, seven feature extraction algorithms and different combinations of them are investigated, and the combination of SVMProt-188D and tripeptide composition (TPC) is selected according to the experimental results. In the step of feature selection, maximum relevant maximum distance (MRMD) and binomial distribution (BD) are, respectively, used to remove the redundant or noise features, and the appropriate features are selected according to the experimental results. In the step of classification, we employed multilayer perceptron (MLP) to train the prediction model. The 10-fold cross-validation results show that the overall accuracy of PredAmyl-MLP reached 91.59%, and the performance was better than the existing methods.
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- Yanjuan Li
- College of Information and Computer Engineering, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin 150040, China
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- College of Information and Computer Engineering, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin 150040, China
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- College of Information and Computer Engineering, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin 150040, China
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- College of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150040, China
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Meng C, Wu J, Guo F, Dong B, Xu L. CWLy-pred: A novel cell wall lytic enzyme identifier based on an improved MRMD feature selection method. Genomics 2020; 112:4715-4721. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ygeno.2020.08.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/10/2020] [Revised: 08/04/2020] [Accepted: 08/13/2020] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Min X, Ye C, Liu X, Zeng X. Predicting enhancer-promoter interactions by deep learning and matching heuristic. Brief Bioinform 2020; 22:5937174. [PMID: 33096548 DOI: 10.1093/bib/bbaa254] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/13/2020] [Revised: 09/08/2020] [Accepted: 09/08/2020] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
Abstract
Enhancer-promoter interactions (EPIs) play an important role in transcriptional regulation. Recently, machine learning-based methods have been widely used in the genome-scale identification of EPIs due to their promising predictive performance. In this paper, we propose a novel method, termed EPI-DLMH, for predicting EPIs with the use of DNA sequences only. EPI-DLMH consists of three major steps. First, a two-layer convolutional neural network is used to learn local features, and an bidirectional gated recurrent unit network is used to capture long-range dependencies on the sequences of promoters and enhancers. Second, an attention mechanism is used for focusing on relatively important features. Finally, a matching heuristic mechanism is introduced for the exploration of the interaction between enhancers and promoters. We use benchmark datasets in evaluating and comparing the proposed method with existing methods. Comparative results show that our model is superior to currently existing models in multiple cell lines. Specifically, we found that the matching heuristic mechanism introduced into the proposed model mainly contributes to the improvement of performance in terms of overall accuracy. Additionally, compared with existing models, our model is more efficient with regard to computational speed.
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Affiliation(s)
- Xiaoping Min
- Department of Computer Science, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China
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- Department of Computer Science, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China
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- Department of Computer Science, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China
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- School of Information Science and Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha, China
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Guo Z, Wang P, Liu Z, Zhao Y. Discrimination of Thermophilic Proteins and Non-thermophilic Proteins Using Feature Dimension Reduction. Front Bioeng Biotechnol 2020; 8:584807. [PMID: 33195148 PMCID: PMC7642589 DOI: 10.3389/fbioe.2020.584807] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/18/2020] [Accepted: 09/11/2020] [Indexed: 01/19/2023] Open
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Thermophilicity is a very important property of proteins, as it sometimes determines denaturation and cell death. Thus, methods for predicting thermophilic proteins and non-thermophilic proteins are of interest and can contribute to the design and engineering of proteins. In this article, we describe the use of feature dimension reduction technology and LIBSVM to identify thermophilic proteins. The highest accuracy obtained by cross-validation was 96.02% with 119 parameters. When using only 16 features, we obtained an accuracy of 93.33%. We discuss the importance of the different characteristics in identification and report a comparison of the performance of support vector machine to that of other methods.
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- Zifan Guo
- School of Aeronautics and Astronautic, Institute of Fundamental and Frontier Sciences, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China
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- School of Life Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China
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- School of Computer Science and Technology, Shandong Jianzhu University, Jinan, China
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- Information and Computer Engineering College, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin, China
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Dou L, Li X, Zhang L, Xiang H, Xu L. iGlu_AdaBoost: Identification of Lysine Glutarylation Using the AdaBoost Classifier. J Proteome Res 2020; 20:191-201. [PMID: 33090794 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jproteome.0c00314] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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Lysine glutarylation is a newly reported post-translational modification (PTM) that plays significant roles in regulating metabolic and mitochondrial processes. Accurate identification of protein glutarylation is the primary task to better investigate molecular functions and various applications. Due to the common disadvantages of the time-consuming and expensive nature of traditional biological sequencing techniques as well as the explosive growth of protein data, building precise computational models to rapidly diagnose glutarylation is a popular and feasible solution. In this work, we proposed a novel AdaBoost-based predictor called iGlu_AdaBoost to distinguish glutarylation and non-glutarylation sequences. Here, the top 37 features were chosen from a total of 1768 combined features using Chi2 following incremental feature selection (IFS) to build the model, including 188D, the composition of k-spaced amino acid pairs (CKSAAP), and enhanced amino acid composition (EAAC). With the help of the hybrid-sampling method SMOTE-Tomek, the AdaBoost algorithm was performed with satisfactory recall, specificity, and AUC values of 87.48%, 72.49%, and 0.89 over 10-fold cross validation as well as 72.73%, 71.92%, and 0.63 over independent test, respectively. Further feature analysis inferred that positively charged amino acids RK play critical roles in glutarylation recognition. Our model presented the well generalization ability and consistency of the prediction results of positive and negative samples, which is comparable to four published tools. The proposed predictor is an efficient tool to find potential glutarylation sites and provides helpful suggestions for further research on glutarylation mechanisms and concerned disease treatments.
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- Lijun Dou
- School of Automotive and Transportation Engineering, Shenzhen Polytechnic, Shenzhen 518055, China.,Institute of Fundamental and Frontier Sciences, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 610054, China
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- Department of Oncology, Heilongjiang Province Land Reclamation Headquarters General Hospital, Harbin 150000, China
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- School of Intelligent Manufacturing and Equipment, Shenzhen Institute of Information Technology, Shenzhen 518172, China
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- School of Automotive and Transportation Engineering, Shenzhen Polytechnic, Shenzhen 518055, China
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- School of Electronic and Communication Engineering, Shenzhen Polytechnic, Shenzhen 518055, China
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Li Q, Xu L, Li Q, Zhang L. Identification and Classification of Enhancers Using Dimension Reduction Technique and Recurrent Neural Network. COMPUTATIONAL AND MATHEMATICAL METHODS IN MEDICINE 2020; 2020:8852258. [PMID: 33133227 PMCID: PMC7591959 DOI: 10.1155/2020/8852258] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/25/2020] [Revised: 09/16/2020] [Accepted: 09/30/2020] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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Enhancers are noncoding fragments in DNA sequences, which play an important role in gene transcription and translation. However, due to their high free scattering and positional variability, the identification and classification of enhancers have a higher level of complexity than those of coding genes. In order to solve this problem, many computer studies have been carried out in this field, but there are still some deficiencies in these prediction models. In this paper, we use various feature extraction strategies, dimension reduction technology, and a comprehensive application of machine model and recurrent neural network model to achieve an accurate prediction of enhancer identification and classification with the accuracy of was 76.7% and 84.9%, respectively. The model proposed in this paper is superior to the previous methods in performance index or feature dimension, which provides inspiration for the prediction of enhancers by computer technology in the future.
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- Qingwen Li
- College of Animal Science and Technology, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin, China
- Institute of Fundamental and Frontier Sciences, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China
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- School of Electronic and Communication Engineering, Shenzhen Polytechnic, Shenzhen, China
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- Forestry and Fruit Tree Research Institute, Wuhan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Wuhan, China
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- School of Intelligent Manufacturing and Equipment, Shenzhen Institute of Information Technology, Shenzhen, China
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