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Yin S, Xu P, Jiang Y, Yang X, Lin Y, Zheng M, Hu J, Zhao Q. Predicting the potential associations between circRNA and drug sensitivity using a multisource feature-based approach. J Cell Mol Med 2024; 28:e18591. [PMID: 39347936 PMCID: PMC11441279 DOI: 10.1111/jcmm.18591] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/07/2024] [Revised: 07/16/2024] [Accepted: 07/24/2024] [Indexed: 10/01/2024] Open
Abstract
The unique non-coding RNA molecule known as circular RNA (circRNA) is distinguished from conventional linear RNA by having a longer half-life, greater degree of conservation and inherent solidity. Extensive research has demonstrated the profound impact of circRNA expression on cellular drug sensitivity and therapeutic efficacy. There is an immediate need for the creation of efficient computational techniques to anticipate the potential correlations between circRNA and drug sensitivity, as classical biological research approaches are time-consuming and costly. In this work, we introduce a novel deep learning model called SNMGCDA, which aims to forecast the relationships between circRNA and drug sensitivity. SNMGCDA incorporates a diverse range of similarity networks, enabling the derivation of feature vectors for circRNAs and drugs using three distinct calculation methods. First, we utilize a sparse autoencoder for the extraction of drug characteristics. Subsequently, the application of non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) enables the identification of relationships between circRNAs and drugs based on their shared features. Additionally, the multi-head graph attention network is employed to capture the characteristics of circRNAs. After acquiring the characteristics from these three separate components, we combine them to form a unified and inclusive feature vector for each cluster of circRNA and drug. Finally, the relevant feature vectors and labels are inputted into a multilayer perceptron (MLP) to make predictions. The outcomes of the experiment, obtained through 5-fold cross-validation (5-fold CV) and 10-fold cross-validation (10-fold CV), demonstrate SNMGCDA outperforms five other state-of-art methods in terms of performance. Additionally, the majority of case studies have predominantly confirmed newly discovered correlations by SNMGCDA, thereby emphasizing its reliability in predicting potential relationships between circRNAs and drugs.
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- Shuaidong Yin
- School of Computer Science and Software Engineering, University of Science and Technology Liaoning, Anshan, China
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- School of Electronic and Information Engineering, University of Science and Technology Liaoning, Anshan, China
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- School of Computer Science and Software Engineering, University of Science and Technology Liaoning, Anshan, China
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- School of Computer Science and Software Engineering, University of Science and Technology Liaoning, Anshan, China
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- College of Computer Science and Technology, Jilin University, Changchun, China
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- School of Computer Science and Software Engineering, University of Science and Technology Liaoning, Anshan, China
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- School of Computer Science and Software Engineering, University of Science and Technology Liaoning, Anshan, China
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- School of Computer Science and Software Engineering, University of Science and Technology Liaoning, Anshan, China
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Li G, Li Y, Liang C, Luo J. DeepWalk-aware graph attention networks with CNN for circRNA-drug sensitivity association identification. Brief Funct Genomics 2024; 23:418-428. [PMID: 38061910 DOI: 10.1093/bfgp/elad053] [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: 07/21/2023] [Revised: 09/26/2023] [Accepted: 11/20/2023] [Indexed: 07/22/2024] Open
Abstract
Circular RNAs (circRNAs) are a class of noncoding RNA molecules that are widely found in cells. Recent studies have revealed the significant role played by circRNAs in human health and disease treatment. Several restrictions are encountered because forecasting prospective circRNAs and medication sensitivity connections through biological research is not only time-consuming and expensive but also incredibly ineffective. Consequently, the development of a novel computational method that enhances both the efficiency and accuracy of predicting the associations between circRNAs and drug sensitivities is urgently needed. Here, we present DGATCCDA, a computational method based on deep learning, for circRNA-drug sensitivity association identification. In DGATCCDA, we first construct multimodal networks from the original feature information of circRNAs and drugs. After that, we adopt DeepWalk-aware graph attention networks to sufficiently extract feature information from the multimodal networks to obtain the embedding representation of nodes. Specifically, we combine DeepWalk and graph attention network to form DeepWalk-aware graph attention networks, which can effectively capture the global and local information of graph structures. The features extracted from the multimodal networks are fused by layer attention, and eventually, the inner product approach is used to construct the association matrix of circRNAs and drugs for prediction. The ultimate experimental results obtained under 5-fold cross-validation settings show that the average area under the receiver operating characteristic curve value of DGATCCDA reaches 91.18%, which is better than those of the five current state-of-the-art calculation methods. We further guide a case study, and the excellent obtained results also show that DGATCCDA is an effective computational method for exploring latent circRNA-drug sensitivity associations.
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- Guanghui Li
- School of Information Engineering, East China Jiaotong University, Nanchang, China
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- School of Information Engineering, East China Jiaotong University, Nanchang, China
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- School of Information Science and Engineering, Shandong Normal University, Jinan, China
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- College of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha, China
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Luo Y, Deng L. DPMGCDA: Deciphering circRNA-Drug Sensitivity Associations with Dual Perspective Learning and Path-Masked Graph Autoencoder. J Chem Inf Model 2024; 64:4359-4372. [PMID: 38745420 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jcim.4c00573] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/16/2024]
Abstract
Accumulating evidence has indicated that the expression of circular RNAs (circRNAs) can affect the cellular sensitivity to drugs and significantly influence drug efficacy. However, traditional experimental approaches for validating these associations are resource-intensive and time-consuming. To address this challenge, we propose a computational framework termed DPMGCDA leveraging dual perspective learning and path-masked graph autoencoder to predict circRNA-drug sensitivity associations. Initially, we construct circRNA-circRNA fusion similarity networks and drug-drug fusion similarity networks using similarity network fusion, ensuring a comprehensive integration of information. Based on the above, we built the circRNA homogeneous graph, the drug homogeneous graph, and the circRNA-drug heterogeneous graph. Next, we form the initial node features in the circRNA-drug heterogeneous graph from the homogeneous graph-level perspective and the combined feature-level perspective and complete the prediction of potential associations using the path-masked graph autoencoder in both perspectives. The predictions under both perspectives are finally combined to obtain the final prediction score. Transductive setting experiments and inductive setting experiments all demonstrate that our method, DPMGCDA, outperforms state-of-the-art approaches. Additionally, we verify the necessity of employing dual perspective learning through ablation tests and analyze the effective encoding capability of the path-masked graph autoencoder for features through embedding visualization. Moreover, case studies on four drugs corroborate DPMGCDA's ability to identify potential circRNAs associated with new drugs.
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- Yue Luo
- School of Computer Science and Engineering, Central South University, Changsha 410083, China
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- School of Computer Science and Engineering, Central South University, Changsha 410083, China
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Fan Y, Zhang C, Hu X, Huang Z, Xue J, Deng L. SGCLDGA: unveiling drug-gene associations through simple graph contrastive learning. Brief Bioinform 2024; 25:bbae231. [PMID: 38754409 PMCID: PMC11097980 DOI: 10.1093/bib/bbae231] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/31/2024] [Revised: 04/15/2024] [Accepted: 04/30/2024] [Indexed: 05/18/2024] Open
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Drug repurposing offers a viable strategy for discovering new drugs and therapeutic targets through the analysis of drug-gene interactions. However, traditional experimental methods are plagued by their costliness and inefficiency. Despite graph convolutional network (GCN)-based models' state-of-the-art performance in prediction, their reliance on supervised learning makes them vulnerable to data sparsity, a common challenge in drug discovery, further complicating model development. In this study, we propose SGCLDGA, a novel computational model leveraging graph neural networks and contrastive learning to predict unknown drug-gene associations. SGCLDGA employs GCNs to extract vector representations of drugs and genes from the original bipartite graph. Subsequently, singular value decomposition (SVD) is employed to enhance the graph and generate multiple views. The model performs contrastive learning across these views, optimizing vector representations through a contrastive loss function to better distinguish positive and negative samples. The final step involves utilizing inner product calculations to determine association scores between drugs and genes. Experimental results on the DGIdb4.0 dataset demonstrate SGCLDGA's superior performance compared with six state-of-the-art methods. Ablation studies and case analyses validate the significance of contrastive learning and SVD, highlighting SGCLDGA's potential in discovering new drug-gene associations. The code and dataset for SGCLDGA are freely available at https://github.com/one-melon/SGCLDGA.
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- Yanhao Fan
- School of Computer Science and Engineering, Central South University, 410075, Changsha, China
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- School of software, Xinjiang University, 830046, Urumqi, China
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- School of Computer Science and Engineering, Central South University, 410075, Changsha, China
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- School of Computer Science and Engineering, Central South University, 410075, Changsha, China
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- School of Computer Science and Engineering, Central South University, 410075, Changsha, China
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- School of Computer Science and Engineering, Central South University, 410075, Changsha, China
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Lu S, Liang Y, Li L, Liao S, Zou Y, Yang C, Ouyang D. Inferring circRNA-drug sensitivity associations via dual hierarchical attention networks and multiple kernel fusion. BMC Genomics 2023; 24:796. [PMID: 38129810 PMCID: PMC10734204 DOI: 10.1186/s12864-023-09899-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/28/2023] [Accepted: 12/12/2023] [Indexed: 12/23/2023] Open
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Increasing evidence has shown that the expression of circular RNAs (circRNAs) can affect the drug sensitivity of cells and significantly influence drug efficacy. Therefore, research into the relationships between circRNAs and drugs can be of great significance in increasing the comprehension of circRNAs function, as well as contributing to the discovery of new drugs and the repurposing of existing drugs. However, it is time-consuming and costly to validate the function of circRNA with traditional medical research methods. Therefore, the development of efficient and accurate computational models that can assist in discovering the potential interactions between circRNAs and drugs is urgently needed. In this study, a novel method is proposed, called DHANMKF , that aims to predict potential circRNA-drug sensitivity interactions for further biomedical screening and validation. Firstly, multimodal networks were constructed by DHANMKF using multiple sources of information on circRNAs and drugs. Secondly, comprehensive intra-type and inter-type node representations were learned using bi-typed multi-relational heterogeneous graphs, which are attention-based encoders utilizing a hierarchical process. Thirdly, the multi-kernel fusion method was used to fuse intra-type embedding and inter-type embedding. Finally, the Dual Laplacian Regularized Least Squares method (DLapRLS) was used to predict the potential circRNA-drug sensitivity associations using the combined kernel in circRNA and drug spaces. Compared with the other methods, DHANMKF obtained the highest AUC value on two datasets. Code is available at https://github.com/cuntjx/DHANMKF .
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- Shanghui Lu
- Faculty of Innovation Enginee, Macau University of Science and Technology, Avenida Wai Long, Taipa, 999078, Macao, Macao Special Administrative Region of China, China
- School of Mathematics and Physics, Hechi University, No.42, Longjiang, 546300, Guangxi, China
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- Faculty of Innovation Enginee, Macau University of Science and Technology, Avenida Wai Long, Taipa, 999078, Macao, Macao Special Administrative Region of China, China.
- Peng Cheng Laboratory, Shenzhen, 518055, Guangdong, China.
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- Faculty of Innovation Enginee, Macau University of Science and Technology, Avenida Wai Long, Taipa, 999078, Macao, Macao Special Administrative Region of China, China
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- Faculty of Innovation Enginee, Macau University of Science and Technology, Avenida Wai Long, Taipa, 999078, Macao, Macao Special Administrative Region of China, China
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- School of Mathematics and Physics, Hechi University, No.42, Longjiang, 546300, Guangxi, China
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- School of Artificial Intelligence and Manufacturing, Hechi University, No.42, Longjiang, 546300, Guangxi, China
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- Faculty of Innovation Enginee, Macau University of Science and Technology, Avenida Wai Long, Taipa, 999078, Macao, Macao Special Administrative Region of China, China
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Li G, Zeng F, Luo J, Liang C, Xiao Q. MNCLCDA: predicting circRNA-drug sensitivity associations by using mixed neighbourhood information and contrastive learning. BMC Med Inform Decis Mak 2023; 23:291. [PMID: 38110886 PMCID: PMC10729363 DOI: 10.1186/s12911-023-02384-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/12/2023] [Accepted: 12/01/2023] [Indexed: 12/20/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND circRNAs play an important role in drug resistance and cancer development. Recently, many studies have shown that the expressions of circRNAs in human cells can affect the sensitivity of cells to therapeutic drugs, thus significantly influencing the therapeutic effects of these drugs. Traditional biomedical experiments required to verify this sensitivity relationship are not only time-consuming but also expensive. Hence, the development of an efficient computational approach that can accurately predict the novel associations between drug sensitivities and circRNAs is a crucial and pressing need. METHODS In this research, we present a novel computational framework called MNCLCDA, which aims to predict the potential associations between drug sensitivities and circRNAs to assist with medical research. First, MNCLCDA quantifies the similarity between the given drug and circRNA using drug structure information, circRNA gene sequence information, and GIP kernel information. Due to the existence of noise in similarity information, we employ a preprocessing approach based on random walk with restart for similarity networks to efficiently capture the useful features of circRNAs and drugs. Second, we use a mixed neighbourhood graph convolutional network to obtain the neighbourhood information of nodes. Then, a graph-based contrastive learning method is used to enhance the robustness of the model, and finally, a double Laplace-regularized least-squares method is used to predict potential circRNA-drug associations through the kernel matrices in the circRNA and drug spaces. RESULTS Numerous experimental results show that MNCLCDA outperforms six other advanced methods. In addition, the excellent performance of our proposed model in case studies illustrates that MNCLCDA also has the ability to predict the associations between drug sensitivity and circRNA in practical situations. CONCLUSIONS After a large number of experiments, it is illustrated that MNCLCDA is an efficient tool for predicting the potential associations between drug sensitivities and circRNAs, thereby can provide some guidance for clinical trials.
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- Guanghui Li
- School of Information Engineering, East China Jiaotong University, Nanchang, China.
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- School of Information Engineering, East China Jiaotong University, Nanchang, China
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- College of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha, China.
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- School of Information Science and Engineering, Shandong Normal University, Jinan, China
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- College of Information Science and Engineering, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, China
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Shi X, Liao S, Bi Z, Liu J, Li H, Feng C. Newly discovered circRNAs encoding proteins: recent progress. Front Genet 2023; 14:1264606. [PMID: 37829278 PMCID: PMC10565661 DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2023.1264606] [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: 07/21/2023] [Accepted: 09/12/2023] [Indexed: 10/14/2023] Open
Abstract
Circular RNA (circRNA) is a special class of noncoding RNA molecules and the latest research hotspot in the field of RNA. CircRNA molecules have a closed loop structure, which is not affected by RNA exonuclease and has the characteristics of more stable expression. Previous studies have shown that circRNA molecules are rich in microRNA (miRNA) binding sites and act as miRNA sponges in cells. By interacting with miRNAs associated with tumors and other diseases, circRNAs play an important regulatory role. However, circRNAs have recently been found to have small open reading frames that enable them to encode peptides/proteins. These proteins have been reported to play an important role in the mechanism of regulation of a variety of diseases and have great potential in the diagnosis and treatment of diseases. In this review, we summarize the mechanism of action of the newly discovered circRNA-coding proteins since 2022 and briefly describe their research process. In addition, we also discuss the prediction model of the functional sites and encoded proteins of circRNAs, which provides a potential idea for future research on circRNAs.
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- Xiaotong Shi
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Beijing Chao-yang Hospital of Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
- Department of Orthopedics, The First Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun, China
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- Department of Orthopedics, The First Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun, China
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- Department of Orthopedics, The First Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun, China
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- Department of Orthopedics, The First Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun, China
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Beijing Chao-yang Hospital of Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Beijing Chao-yang Hospital of Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
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Zhang P, Wang Z, Sun W, Xu J, Zhang W, Wu K, Wong L, Li L. RDRGSE: A Framework for Noncoding RNA-Drug Resistance Discovery by Incorporating Graph Skeleton Extraction and Attentional Feature Fusion. ACS OMEGA 2023; 8:27386-27397. [PMID: 37546619 PMCID: PMC10398708 DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.3c02763] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/22/2023] [Accepted: 07/06/2023] [Indexed: 08/08/2023]
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Identifying noncoding RNAs (ncRNAs)-drug resistance association computationally would have a marked effect on understanding ncRNA molecular function and drug target mechanisms and alleviating the screening cost of corresponding biological wet experiments. Although graph neural network-based methods have been developed and facilitated the detection of ncRNAs related to drug resistance, it remains a challenge to explore a highly trusty ncRNA-drug resistance association prediction framework, due to inevitable noise edges originating from the batch effect and experimental errors. Herein, we proposed a framework, referred to as RDRGSE (RDR association prediction by using graph skeleton extraction and attentional feature fusion), for detecting ncRNA-drug resistance association. Specifically, starting with the construction of the original ncRNA-drug resistance association as a bipartite graph, RDRGSE took advantage of a bi-view skeleton extraction strategy to obtain two types of skeleton views, followed by a graph neural network-based estimator for iteratively optimizing skeleton views aimed at learning high-quality ncRNA-drug resistance edge embedding and optimal graph skeleton structure, jointly. Then, RDRGSE adopted adaptive attentional feature fusion to obtain final edge embedding and identified potential RDRAs under an end-to-end pattern. Comprehensive experiments were conducted, and experimental results indicated the significant advantage of a skeleton structure for ncRNA-drug resistance association discovery. Compared with state-of-the-art approaches, RDRGSE improved the prediction performance by 6.7% in terms of AUC and 6.1% in terms of AUPR. Also, ablation-like analysis and independent case studies corroborated RDRGSE generalization ability and robustness. Overall, RDRGSE provides a powerful computational method for ncRNA-drug resistance association prediction, which can also serve as a screening tool for drug resistance biomarkers.
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- Ping Zhang
- Hubei
Key Laboratory of Agricultural Bioinformatics, College of Informatics, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China
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- Hubei
Key Laboratory of Agricultural Bioinformatics, College of Informatics, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China
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- Hubei
Key Laboratory of Agricultural Bioinformatics, College of Informatics, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China
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- Hubei
Key Laboratory of Agricultural Bioinformatics, College of Informatics, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China
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- Hubei
Key Laboratory of Agricultural Bioinformatics, College of Informatics, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China
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- Department
of Biochemistry, University of California
Riverside, Riverside, California 92521, United States
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- Guangxi
Key Lab of Human-Machine Interaction and Intelligent Decision, Guangxi Academy of Sciences, Nanning 530007, China
- Institute
of Machine Learning and Systems Biology, School of Electronics and
Information Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China
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- Hubei
Key Laboratory of Agricultural Bioinformatics, College of Informatics, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China
- Hubei
Hongshan Laboratory, Huazhong Agricultural
University, Wuhan 430070, China
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