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Zhao L, Hao R, Chai Z, Fu W, Yang W, Li C, Liu Q, Jiang Y. DeepOCR: A multi-species deep-learning framework for accurate identification of open chromatin regions in livestock. Comput Biol Chem 2024; 110:108077. [PMID: 38691895 DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiolchem.2024.108077] [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: 01/11/2024] [Revised: 03/27/2024] [Accepted: 04/16/2024] [Indexed: 05/03/2024]
Abstract
A wealth of experimental evidence has suggested that open chromatin regions (OCRs) are involved in many critical biological activities, such as DNA replication, enhancer activity, and gene transcription. Accurately identifying OCRs in livestock species can provide critical insights into the distribution and characteristics of OCRs for disease treatment in livestock, thereby improving animal welfare. However, most current machine-learning methods for OCR prediction were originally designed for a limited number of model organisms, such as humans and some model organisms, and thus their performance on non-model organisms, specifically livestock, is often unsatisfactory. To bridge this gap, we propose DeepOCR, a lightweight depth-separable residual network model for predicting OCRs in livestock, including chicken, cattle, and sheep. DeepOCR integrates a single convolution layer and two improved residue structure blocks to extract and learn important features from the input DNA sequences. A fully connected layer was also employed to further process the extracted features and improve the robustness of the entire network. Our benchmarking experiments demonstrated superior prediction performance of DeepOCR compared to state-of-the-art approaches on testing datasets of the three species. The source code of DeepOCR is freely available for academic purposes at https://github.com/jasonzhao371/DeepOCR/. We anticipate DeepOCR servers as a practical and reliable computational tool for OCR-related studies in livestock species.
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- Liangwei Zhao
- College of Information Engineering, Northwest A&F University, Yangling 712100, China
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- College of Information Engineering, Northwest A&F University, Yangling 712100, China
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- College of Information Engineering, Northwest A&F University, Yangling 712100, China
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- College of Pastoral Agriculture Science and Technology, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu 730020, China
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- National Clinical Research Center for Infectious Diseases, Shenzhen Third People's Hospital, Shenzhen 518112, China
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- Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute and Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC 3800, Australia.
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- College of Information Engineering, Northwest A&F University, Yangling 712100, China.
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- Key Laboratory of Animal Genetics, Breeding and Reproduction of Shaanxi Province, College of Animal Science and Technology, Northwest A&F University, Yangling 712100, China; Key Laboratory of Livestock Biology, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, China.
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Kim J, Seok J. ctGAN: combined transformation of gene expression and survival data with generative adversarial network. Brief Bioinform 2024; 25:bbae325. [PMID: 38980369 PMCID: PMC11232285 DOI: 10.1093/bib/bbae325] [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: 02/19/2024] [Revised: 05/29/2024] [Accepted: 06/21/2024] [Indexed: 07/10/2024] Open
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Recent studies have extensively used deep learning algorithms to analyze gene expression to predict disease diagnosis, treatment effectiveness, and survival outcomes. Survival analysis studies on diseases with high mortality rates, such as cancer, are indispensable. However, deep learning models are plagued by overfitting owing to the limited sample size relative to the large number of genes. Consequently, the latest style-transfer deep generative models have been implemented to generate gene expression data. However, these models are limited in their applicability for clinical purposes because they generate only transcriptomic data. Therefore, this study proposes ctGAN, which enables the combined transformation of gene expression and survival data using a generative adversarial network (GAN). ctGAN improves survival analysis by augmenting data through style transformations between breast cancer and 11 other cancer types. We evaluated the concordance index (C-index) enhancements compared with previous models to demonstrate its superiority. Performance improvements were observed in nine of the 11 cancer types. Moreover, ctGAN outperformed previous models in seven out of the 11 cancer types, with colon adenocarcinoma (COAD) exhibiting the most significant improvement (median C-index increase of ~15.70%). Furthermore, integrating the generated COAD enhanced the log-rank p-value (0.041) compared with using only the real COAD (p-value = 0.797). Based on the data distribution, we demonstrated that the model generated highly plausible data. In clustering evaluation, ctGAN exhibited the highest performance in most cases (89.62%). These findings suggest that ctGAN can be meaningfully utilized to predict disease progression and select personalized treatments in the medical field.
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- Jaeyoon Kim
- School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Korea University, 145 Anam-ro, Seongbuk-gu, Seoul, 02841, Korea
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- School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Korea University, 145 Anam-ro, Seongbuk-gu, Seoul, 02841, Korea
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Gao Z, Liu Q, Zeng W, Jiang R, Wong WH. EpiGePT: a Pretrained Transformer model for epigenomics. BIORXIV : THE PREPRINT SERVER FOR BIOLOGY 2024:2023.07.15.549134. [PMID: 37502861 PMCID: PMC10370089 DOI: 10.1101/2023.07.15.549134] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 07/29/2023]
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The inherent similarities between natural language and biological sequences have given rise to great interest in adapting the transformer-based large language models (LLMs) underlying recent breakthroughs in natural language processing (references), for applications in genomics. However, current LLMs for genomics suffer from several limitations such as the inability to include chromatin interactions in the training data, and the inability to make prediction in new cellular contexts not represented in the training data. To mitigate these problems, we propose EpiGePT, a transformer-based pretrained language model for predicting context-specific epigenomic signals and chromatin contacts. By taking the context-specific activities of transcription factors (TFs) and 3D genome interactions into consideration, EpiGePT offers wider applicability and deeper biological insights than models trained on DNA sequence only. In a series of experiments, EpiGePT demonstrates superior performance in a diverse set of epigenomic signals prediction tasks when compared to existing methods. In particular, our model enables cross-cell-type prediction of long-range interactions and offers insight on the functional impact of genetic variants under different cellular contexts. These new capabilities will enhance the usefulness of LLM in the study of gene regulatory mechanisms. We provide free online prediction service of EpiGePT through http://health.tsinghua.edu.cn/epigept/.
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- Zijing Gao
- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Bioinformatics, Bioinformatics Division at the Beijing National Research Center for Information Science and Technology, Center for Synthetic and Systems Biology, Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
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- Department of Statistics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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- Department of Statistics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Bioinformatics, Bioinformatics Division at the Beijing National Research Center for Information Science and Technology, Center for Synthetic and Systems Biology, Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
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- Department of Statistics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
- Department of Biomedical Data Science, Bio-X Program, Center for Personal Dynamic Regulomes, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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Sigala RE, Lagou V, Shmeliov A, Atito S, Kouchaki S, Awais M, Prokopenko I, Mahdi A, Demirkan A. Machine Learning to Advance Human Genome-Wide Association Studies. Genes (Basel) 2023; 15:34. [PMID: 38254924 PMCID: PMC10815885 DOI: 10.3390/genes15010034] [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: 11/16/2023] [Revised: 12/19/2023] [Accepted: 12/22/2023] [Indexed: 01/24/2024] Open
Abstract
Machine learning, including deep learning, reinforcement learning, and generative artificial intelligence are revolutionising every area of our lives when data are made available. With the help of these methods, we can decipher information from larger datasets while addressing the complex nature of biological systems in a more efficient way. Although machine learning methods have been introduced to human genetic epidemiological research as early as 2004, those were never used to their full capacity. In this review, we outline some of the main applications of machine learning to assigning human genetic loci to health outcomes. We summarise widely used methods and discuss their advantages and challenges. We also identify several tools, such as Combi, GenNet, and GMSTool, specifically designed to integrate these methods for hypothesis-free analysis of genetic variation data. We elaborate on the additional value and limitations of these tools from a geneticist's perspective. Finally, we discuss the fast-moving field of foundation models and large multi-modal omics biobank initiatives.
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- Rafaella E. Sigala
- Section of Statistical Multi-Omics, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Guildford GU2 7XH, Surrey, UK; (R.E.S.); (V.L.); (A.S.); (I.P.)
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- Section of Statistical Multi-Omics, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Guildford GU2 7XH, Surrey, UK; (R.E.S.); (V.L.); (A.S.); (I.P.)
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- Section of Statistical Multi-Omics, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Guildford GU2 7XH, Surrey, UK; (R.E.S.); (V.L.); (A.S.); (I.P.)
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- Surrey Institute for People-Centred Artificial Intelligence, University of Surrey, Guildford GU2 7XH, Surrey, UK; (S.A.); (S.K.); (M.A.)
- Centre for Vision, Speech and Signal Processing, University of Surrey, Guildford GU2 7XH, Surrey, UK
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- Surrey Institute for People-Centred Artificial Intelligence, University of Surrey, Guildford GU2 7XH, Surrey, UK; (S.A.); (S.K.); (M.A.)
- Centre for Vision, Speech and Signal Processing, University of Surrey, Guildford GU2 7XH, Surrey, UK
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- Surrey Institute for People-Centred Artificial Intelligence, University of Surrey, Guildford GU2 7XH, Surrey, UK; (S.A.); (S.K.); (M.A.)
- Centre for Vision, Speech and Signal Processing, University of Surrey, Guildford GU2 7XH, Surrey, UK
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- Section of Statistical Multi-Omics, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Guildford GU2 7XH, Surrey, UK; (R.E.S.); (V.L.); (A.S.); (I.P.)
- Surrey Institute for People-Centred Artificial Intelligence, University of Surrey, Guildford GU2 7XH, Surrey, UK; (S.A.); (S.K.); (M.A.)
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- Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3JS, Oxfordshire, UK;
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- Section of Statistical Multi-Omics, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Guildford GU2 7XH, Surrey, UK; (R.E.S.); (V.L.); (A.S.); (I.P.)
- Surrey Institute for People-Centred Artificial Intelligence, University of Surrey, Guildford GU2 7XH, Surrey, UK; (S.A.); (S.K.); (M.A.)
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Deng Z, Ji Y, Han B, Tan Z, Ren Y, Gao J, Chen N, Ma C, Zhang Y, Yao Y, Lu H, Huang H, Xu M, Chen L, Zheng L, Gu J, Xiong D, Zhao J, Gu J, Chen Z, Wang K. Early detection of hepatocellular carcinoma via no end-repair enzymatic methylation sequencing of cell-free DNA and pre-trained neural network. Genome Med 2023; 15:93. [PMID: 37936230 PMCID: PMC10631027 DOI: 10.1186/s13073-023-01238-8] [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: 09/27/2022] [Accepted: 09/26/2023] [Indexed: 11/09/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Early detection of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is important in order to improve patient prognosis and survival rate. Methylation sequencing combined with neural networks to identify cell-free DNA (cfDNA) carrying aberrant methylation offers an appealing and non-invasive approach for HCC detection. However, some limitations exist in traditional methylation detection technologies and models, which may impede their performance in the read-level detection of HCC. METHODS We developed a low DNA damage and high-fidelity methylation detection method called No End-repair Enzymatic Methyl-seq (NEEM-seq). We further developed a read-level neural detection model called DeepTrace that can better identify HCC-derived sequencing reads through a pre-trained and fine-tuned neural network. After pre-training on 11 million reads from NEEM-seq, DeepTrace was fine-tuned using 1.2 million HCC-derived reads from tumor tissue DNA after noise reduction, and 2.7 million non-tumor reads from non-tumor cfDNA. We validated the model using data from 130 individuals with cfDNA whole-genome NEEM-seq at around 1.6X depth. RESULTS NEEM-seq overcomes the drawbacks of traditional enzymatic methylation sequencing methods by avoiding the introduction of unmethylation errors in cfDNA. DeepTrace outperformed other models in identifying HCC-derived reads and detecting HCC individuals. Based on the whole-genome NEEM-seq data of cfDNA, our model showed high accuracy of 96.2%, sensitivity of 93.6%, and specificity of 98.5% in the validation cohort consisting of 62 HCC patients, 48 liver disease patients, and 20 healthy individuals. In the early stage of HCC (BCLC 0/A and TNM I), the sensitivity of DeepTrace was 89.6 and 89.5% respectively, outperforming Alpha Fetoprotein (AFP) which showed much lower sensitivity in both BCLC 0/A (50.5%) and TNM I (44.7%). CONCLUSIONS By combining high-fidelity methylation data from NEEM-seq with the DeepTrace model, our method has great potential for HCC early detection with high sensitivity and specificity, making it potentially suitable for clinical applications. DeepTrace: https://github.com/Bamrock/DeepTrace.
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- Zhenzhong Deng
- Department of Oncology, Xinhua Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China
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- BamRock Research Department, Suzhou BamRock Biotechnology Ltd., Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, China
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- Division of Hepatobiliary and Transplantation Surgery, Department of General Surgery, Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital, the Affiliated Hospital of Medical School, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
- Department of Transplantation, Xinhua Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China
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- Hepatobiliary Center, the First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China
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- College of Intelligence and Computing, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China
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- Department of Software Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
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- National Clinical Research Center for Hematologic Diseases, Jiangsu Institute of Hematology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, China
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- Suzhou Known Biotechnology Ltd, Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, China
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- Department of Transplantation, Xinhua Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China
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- Infectious Disease Department, the First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, China
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- Infectious Disease Department, the First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, China
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- Infectious Disease Department, the First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, China
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- Department of Pathology, Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center, Shanghai, China
- Department of Oncology, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Pathology, Xinhua Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Oncology, Xinhua Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Oncology, Xinhua Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China.
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- College of Intelligence and Computing, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China.
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- Department of Interventional Medicine, the affiliated hospital of infectious diseases of Soochow University, Suzhou, 215131, Jiangsu Province, China.
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- Department of Transplantation, Xinhua Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China.
- Liver Transplantation Center, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei Province, China.
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- Infectious Disease Department, the First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, China.
- Suzhou Key Laboratory of Pathogen Bioscience and Anti-Infective Medicine, Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, China.
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- Hepatobiliary Center, the First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China.
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Khodursky S, Zheng EB, Svetec N, Durkin SM, Benjamin S, Gadau A, Wu X, Zhao L. The evolution and mutational robustness of chromatin accessibility in Drosophila. Genome Biol 2023; 24:232. [PMID: 37845780 PMCID: PMC10578003 DOI: 10.1186/s13059-023-03079-5] [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: 11/14/2022] [Accepted: 09/29/2023] [Indexed: 10/18/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND The evolution of genomic regulatory regions plays a critical role in shaping the diversity of life. While this process is primarily sequence-dependent, the enormous complexity of biological systems complicates the understanding of the factors underlying regulation and its evolution. Here, we apply deep neural networks as a tool to investigate the sequence determinants underlying chromatin accessibility in different species and tissues of Drosophila. RESULTS We train hybrid convolution-attention neural networks to accurately predict ATAC-seq peaks using only local DNA sequences as input. We show that our models generalize well across substantially evolutionarily diverged species of insects, implying that the sequence determinants of accessibility are highly conserved. Using our model to examine species-specific gains in accessibility, we find evidence suggesting that these regions may be ancestrally poised for evolution. Using in silico mutagenesis, we show that accessibility can be accurately predicted from short subsequences in each example. However, in silico knock-out of these sequences does not qualitatively impair classification, implying that accessibility is mutationally robust. Subsequently, we show that accessibility is predicted to be robust to large-scale random mutation even in the absence of selection. Conversely, simulations under strong selection demonstrate that accessibility can be extremely malleable despite its robustness. Finally, we identify motifs predictive of accessibility, recovering both novel and previously known motifs. CONCLUSIONS These results demonstrate the conservation of the sequence determinants of accessibility and the general robustness of chromatin accessibility, as well as the power of deep neural networks to explore fundamental questions in regulatory genomics and evolution.
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- Samuel Khodursky
- Laboratory of Evolutionary Genetics and Genomics, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, 10065, USA
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- Laboratory of Evolutionary Genetics and Genomics, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, 10065, USA
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- Laboratory of Evolutionary Genetics and Genomics, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, 10065, USA
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- Laboratory of Evolutionary Genetics and Genomics, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, 10065, USA
- Present Address: Department of Integrative Biology and Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA
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- Laboratory of Evolutionary Genetics and Genomics, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, 10065, USA
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- Laboratory of Evolutionary Genetics and Genomics, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, 10065, USA
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- Laboratory of Evolutionary Genetics and Genomics, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, 10065, USA
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- Laboratory of Evolutionary Genetics and Genomics, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, 10065, USA.
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Prakash A, Banerjee M. An interpretable block-attention network for identifying regulatory feature interactions. Brief Bioinform 2023; 24:bbad250. [PMID: 37401370 DOI: 10.1093/bib/bbad250] [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: 12/28/2022] [Revised: 05/15/2023] [Accepted: 06/16/2023] [Indexed: 07/05/2023] Open
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The importance of regulatory features in health and disease is increasing, making it crucial to identify the hallmarks of these features. Self-attention networks (SAN) have given rise to numerous models for the prediction of complex phenomena. But the potential of SANs in biological models was limited because of high memory requirement proportional to input token length and lack of interpretability of self-attention scores. To overcome these constraints, we propose a deep learning model named Interpretable Self-Attention Network for REGulatory interactions (ISANREG) that combines both block self-attention and attention-attribution mechanisms. This model predicts transcription factor-bound motif instances and DNA-mediated TF-TF interactions using self-attention attribution scores derived from the network, overcoming the limitations of previous deep learning models. ISANREG will serve as a framework for other biological models in interpreting the contribution of the input with single-nucleotide resolution.
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- Anil Prakash
- Human Molecular Genetics Lab, Neurobiology and Genetics Division, Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, 695014, India
- Department of Biotechnology, University of Kerala, Kariavattom, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India
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- Human Molecular Genetics Lab, Neurobiology and Genetics Division, Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, 695014, India
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Wang M, Yan L, Jia J, Lai J, Zhou H, Yu B. DE-MHAIPs: Identification of SARS-CoV-2 phosphorylation sites based on differential evolution multi-feature learning and multi-head attention mechanism. Comput Biol Med 2023; 160:106935. [PMID: 37120990 PMCID: PMC10140648 DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2023.106935] [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: 01/20/2023] [Revised: 03/12/2023] [Accepted: 04/13/2023] [Indexed: 05/02/2023]
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The rapid spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) around the world affects the normal lives of people all over the world. The computational methods can be used to accurately identify SARS-CoV-2 phosphorylation sites. In this paper, a new prediction model of SARS-CoV-2 phosphorylation sites, called DE-MHAIPs, is proposed. First, we use six feature extraction methods to extract protein sequence information from different perspectives. For the first time, we use a differential evolution (DE) algorithm to learn individual feature weights and fuse multi-information in a weighted combination. Next, Group LASSO is used to select a subset of good features. Then, the important protein information is given higher weight through multi-head attention. After that, the processed data is fed into long short-term memory network (LSTM) to further enhance model's ability to learn features. Finally, the data from LSTM are input into fully connected neural network (FCN) to predict SARS-CoV-2 phosphorylation sites. The AUC values of the S/T and Y datasets under 5-fold cross-validation reach 91.98% and 98.32%, respectively. The AUC values of the two datasets on the independent test set reach 91.72% and 97.78%, respectively. The experimental results show that the DE-MHAIPs method exhibits excellent predictive ability compared with other methods.
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- Minghui Wang
- College of Mathematics and Physics, Qingdao University of Science and Technology, Qingdao, 266061, China
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- College of Mathematics and Physics, Qingdao University of Science and Technology, Qingdao, 266061, China
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- College of Mathematics and Physics, Qingdao University of Science and Technology, Qingdao, 266061, China
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- College of Mathematics and Physics, Qingdao University of Science and Technology, Qingdao, 266061, China
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- College of Mathematics and Physics, Qingdao University of Science and Technology, Qingdao, 266061, China.
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- College of Information Science and Technology, School of Data Science, Qingdao University of Science and Technology, Qingdao, 266061, China; School of Data Science, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 230027, China.
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Jing Y, Zhang S, Wang H. DapNet-HLA: Adaptive dual-attention mechanism network based on deep learning to predict non-classical HLA binding sites. Anal Biochem 2023; 666:115075. [PMID: 36740003 DOI: 10.1016/j.ab.2023.115075] [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: 11/14/2022] [Revised: 01/30/2023] [Accepted: 02/02/2023] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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Human leukocyte antigen (HLA) plays a vital role in immunomodulatory function. Studies have shown that immunotherapy based on non-classical HLA has essential applications in cancer, COVID-19, and allergic diseases. However, there are few deep learning methods to predict non-classical HLA alleles. In this work, an adaptive dual-attention network named DapNet-HLA is established based on existing datasets. Firstly, amino acid sequences are transformed into digital vectors by looking up the table. To overcome the feature sparsity problem caused by unique one-hot encoding, the fused word embedding method is used to map each amino acid to a low-dimensional word vector optimized with the training of the classifier. Then, we use the GCB (group convolution block), SENet attention (squeeze-and-excitation networks), BiLSTM (bidirectional long short-term memory network), and Bahdanau attention mechanism to construct the classifier. The use of SENet can make the weight of the effective feature map high, so that the model can be trained to achieve better results. Attention mechanism is an Encoder-Decoder model used to improve the effectiveness of RNN, LSTM or GRU (gated recurrent neural network). The ablation experiment shows that DapNet-HLA has the best adaptability for five datasets. On the five test datasets, the ACC index and MCC index of DapNet-HLA are 4.89% and 0.0933 higher than the comparison method, respectively. According to the ROC curve and PR curve verified by the 5-fold cross-validation, the AUC value of each fold has a slight fluctuation, which proves the robustness of the DapNet-HLA. The codes and datasets are accessible at https://github.com/JYY625/DapNet-HLA.
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- Yuanyuan Jing
- School of Mathematics and Statistics, Xidian University, Xi'an, 710071, PR China
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- School of Mathematics and Statistics, Xidian University, Xi'an, 710071, PR China.
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- School of Mathematics and Statistics, Xidian University, Xi'an, 710071, PR China
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Quan L, Chu X, Sun X, Wu T, Lyu Q. How Deepbics Quantifies Intensities of Transcription Factor-DNA Binding and Facilitates Prediction of Single Nucleotide Variant Pathogenicity With a Deep Learning Model Trained On ChIP-Seq Data Sets. IEEE/ACM TRANSACTIONS ON COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY AND BIOINFORMATICS 2023; 20:1594-1599. [PMID: 35471887 DOI: 10.1109/tcbb.2022.3170343] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
Abstract
The binding of DNA sequences to cell type-specific transcription factors is essential for regulating gene expression in all organisms. Many variants occurring in these binding regions play crucial roles in human disease by disrupting the cis-regulation of gene expression. We first implemented a sequence-based deep learning model called deepBICS to quantify the intensity of transcription factors-DNA binding. The experimental results not only showed the superiority of deepBICS on ChIP-seq data sets but also suggested deepBICS as a language model could help the classification of disease-related and neutral variants. We then built a language model-based method called deepBICS4SNV to predict the pathogenicity of single nucleotide variants. The good performance of deepBICS4SNV on 2 tests related to Mendelian disorders and viral diseases shows the sequence contextual information derived from language models can improve prediction accuracy and generalization capability.
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Gan M, Ma Y. Mapping user interest into hyper-spherical space: A novel POI recommendation method. Inf Process Manag 2023. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ipm.2022.103169] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Liu Q, Zeng W, Zhang W, Wang S, Chen H, Jiang R, Zhou M, Zhang S. Deep generative modeling and clustering of single cell Hi-C data. Brief Bioinform 2023; 24:6858951. [PMID: 36458445 DOI: 10.1093/bib/bbac494] [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: 07/20/2022] [Revised: 09/28/2022] [Accepted: 10/18/2022] [Indexed: 12/05/2022] Open
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Deciphering 3D genome conformation is important for understanding gene regulation and cellular function at a spatial level. The recent advances of single cell Hi-C technologies have enabled the profiling of the 3D architecture of DNA within individual cell, which allows us to study the cell-to-cell variability of 3D chromatin organization. Computational approaches are in urgent need to comprehensively analyze the sparse and heterogeneous single cell Hi-C data. Here, we proposed scDEC-Hi-C, a new framework for single cell Hi-C analysis with deep generative neural networks. scDEC-Hi-C outperforms existing methods in terms of single cell Hi-C data clustering and imputation. Moreover, the generative power of scDEC-Hi-C could help unveil the differences of chromatin architecture across cell types. We expect that scDEC-Hi-C could shed light on deepening our understanding of the complex mechanism underlying the formation of chromatin contacts.
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- Qiao Liu
- Department of Statistics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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- College of Software, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, China
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, School of Control Science and Engineering, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong 250061, China
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- Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
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- The Research Center for Intelligent Network, Zhejiang Lab, Hangzhou 311121, China
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- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Bioinformatics, Research Department of Bioinformatics at the Beijing National Research Center for Information Science and Technology, Center for Synthetic and Systems Biology, Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
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- SenseBrain Research, San Jose, CA 95131, USA
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- Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Shanghai 200240, China
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Accurate Prediction of Anti-hypertensive Peptides Based on Convolutional Neural Network and Gated Recurrent unit. Interdiscip Sci 2022; 14:879-894. [PMID: 35474167 DOI: 10.1007/s12539-022-00521-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/05/2021] [Revised: 03/30/2022] [Accepted: 04/06/2022] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Hypertension (HT) is a general disease, and also one of the most ordinary and major causes of cardiovascular disease. Some diseases are caused by high blood pressure, including impairment of heart and kidney function, cerebral hemorrhage and myocardial infarction. Due to the limitations of laboratory methods, bioactive peptides for the treatment of HT need a long time to be identified. Therefore, it is of great immediate significance for the identification of anti-hypertensive peptides (AHTPs). With the prevalence of machine learning, it is suggested to use it as a supplementary method for AHTPs classification. Therefore, we develop a new model to identify AHTPs based on multiple features and deep learning. And the deep model is constructed by combining a convolutional neural network (CNN) and a gated recurrent unit (GRU). The unique convolution structure is used to reduce the feature dimension and running time. The data processed by CNN is input into the recurrent structure GRU, and important information is filtered out through the reset gate and update gate. Finally, the output layer adopts Sigmoid activation function. Firstly, we use Kmer, the deviation between the dipeptide frequency and the expected mean (DDE), encoding based on grouped weight (EBGW), enhanced grouped amino acid composition (EGAAC) and dipeptide binary profile and frequency (DBPF) to extract features. For Kmer, DDE, EBGW and EGAAC, it is widely used in the field of protein research. DBPF is a new feature representation method designed by us. It corresponds dipeptides to binary numbers, and finally obtains a binary coding file and a frequency file. Then these features are spliced together and input into our proposed model for prediction and analysis. After a tenfold cross-validation test, this model has a better competitive advantage than the previous methods, and the accuracy is 96.23% and 99.10%, respectively. From the results, compared with the previous methods, it has been greatly improved. It shows that the combination of convolution calculation and recurrent structure has a positive impact on the classification of AHTPs. The results show that this method is a feasible, efficient and competitive sequence analysis tool for AHTPs. Meanwhile, we design a friendly online prediction tool and it is freely accessible at http://ahtps.zhanglab.site/ .
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Wang H, Li H, Gao W, Xie J. PrUb-EL: A hybrid framework based on deep learning for identifying ubiquitination sites in Arabidopsis thaliana using ensemble learning strategy. Anal Biochem 2022; 658:114935. [PMID: 36206844 DOI: 10.1016/j.ab.2022.114935] [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: 07/08/2022] [Revised: 09/25/2022] [Accepted: 09/26/2022] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Identification of ubiquitination sites is central to many biological experiments. Ubiquitination is a kind of post-translational protein modification (PTM). It is a key mechanism for increasing protein diversity and plays a vital role in regulating cell function. In recent years, many models have been developed to predict ubiquitination sites in humans, mice and yeast. However, few studies have predicted ubiquitination sites in Arabidopsis thaliana. In view of this, a deep network model named PrUb-EL is proposed to predict ubiquitination sites in Arabidopsis thaliana. Firstly, six features based on the protein sequence are extracted with amino acid index database (AAindex), dipeptide deviates from the expected mean (DDE), dipeptide composition (DPC), blocks substitution matrix (BLOSUM62), enhanced amino acid composition (EAAC) and binary encoding. Secondly, the synthetic minority over-sampling technique (SMOTE) is utilized to process the imbalanced data set. Then a new classifier named DG is presented, which includes Dense block, Residual block and Gated recurrent unit (GRU) block. Finally, each of six feature extraction methods is integrated into the DG model, and the ensemble learning strategy is used to gain the final prediction result. Experimental results show that PrUb-EL has good predictive ability with the accuracy (ACC) and area under the ROC curve (auROC) values of 91.00% and 97.70% using 5-fold cross-validation, respectively. Note that the values of ACC and auROC are 88.58% and 96.09% in the independent test, respectively. Compared with previous studies, our model has significantly improved performance thus it is an excellent method for identifying ubiquitination sites in Arabidopsis thaliana. The datasets and code used for the article are available at https://github.com/Tom-Wangy/PreUb-EL.git.
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- Houqiang Wang
- School of Mathematics and Statistics, Xidian University, Xi'an, 710071, PR China
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- School of Mathematics and Statistics, Xidian University, Xi'an, 710071, PR China.
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- School of Mathematics and Statistics, Xidian University, Xi'an, 710071, PR China
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- School of Mathematics and Statistics, Xidian University, Xi'an, 710071, PR China
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Li X, Zhang S, Shi H. An improved residual network using deep fusion for identifying RNA 5-methylcytosine sites. Bioinformatics 2022; 38:4271-4277. [PMID: 35866985 DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btac532] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/11/2022] [Revised: 06/30/2022] [Accepted: 07/21/2022] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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MOTIVATION 5-Methylcytosine (m5C) is a crucial post-transcriptional modification. With the development of technology, it is widely found in various RNAs. Numerous studies have indicated that m5C plays an essential role in various activities of organisms, such as tRNA recognition, stabilization of RNA structure, RNA metabolism and so on. Traditional identification is costly and time-consuming by wet biological experiments. Therefore, computational models are commonly used to identify the m5C sites. Due to the vast computing advantages of deep learning, it is feasible to construct the predictive model through deep learning algorithms. RESULTS In this study, we construct a model to identify m5C based on a deep fusion approach with an improved residual network. First, sequence features are extracted from the RNA sequences using Kmer, K-tuple nucleotide frequency component (KNFC), Pseudo dinucleotide composition (PseDNC) and Physical and chemical property (PCP). Kmer and KNFC extract information from a statistical point of view. PseDNC and PCP extract information from the physicochemical properties of RNA sequences. Then, two parts of information are fused with new features using bidirectional long- and short-term memory and attention mechanisms, respectively. Immediately after, the fused features are fed into the improved residual network for classification. Finally, 10-fold cross-validation and independent set testing are used to verify the credibility of the model. The results show that the accuracy reaches 91.87%, 95.55%, 92.27% and 95.60% on the training sets and independent test sets of Arabidopsis thaliana and M.musculus, respectively. This is a considerable improvement compared to previous studies and demonstrates the robust performance of our model. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION The data and code related to the study are available at https://github.com/alivelxj/m5c-DFRESG.
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- Xinjie Li
- School of Mathematics and Statistics, Xidian University, Xi'an 710071, P. R. China
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- School of Mathematics and Statistics, Xidian University, Xi'an 710071, P. R. China
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- School of Mathematics and Statistics, Xidian University, Xi'an 710071, P. R. China
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Wrightsman T, Marand AP, Crisp PA, Springer NM, Buckler ES. Modeling chromatin state from sequence across angiosperms using recurrent convolutional neural networks. THE PLANT GENOME 2022; 15:e20249. [PMID: 35924336 DOI: 10.1002/tpg2.20249] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/08/2021] [Accepted: 06/20/2022] [Indexed: 06/06/2024]
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Accessible chromatin regions are critical components of gene regulation but modeling them directly from sequence remains challenging, especially within plants, whose mechanisms of chromatin remodeling are less understood than in animals. We trained an existing deep-learning architecture, DanQ, on data from 12 angiosperm species to predict the chromatin accessibility in leaf of sequence windows within and across species. We also trained DanQ on DNA methylation data from 10 angiosperms because unmethylated regions have been shown to overlap significantly with ACRs in some plants. The across-species models have comparable or even superior performance to a model trained within species, suggesting strong conservation of chromatin mechanisms across angiosperms. Testing a maize (Zea mays L.) held-out model on a multi-tissue chromatin accessibility panel revealed our models are best at predicting constitutively accessible chromatin regions, with diminishing performance as cell-type specificity increases. Using a combination of interpretation methods, we ranked JASPAR motifs by their importance to each model and saw that the TCP and AP2/ERF transcription factor (TF) families consistently ranked highly. We embedded the top three JASPAR motifs for each model at all possible positions on both strands in our sequence window and observed position- and strand-specific patterns in their importance to the model. With our publicly available across-species 'a2z' model it is now feasible to predict the chromatin accessibility and methylation landscape of any angiosperm genome.
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- Travis Wrightsman
- Section of Plant Breeding and Genetics, Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY, 14853, USA
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- School of Agriculture and Food Sciences, Univ. of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, 4072, Australia
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- Dep. of Plant and Microbial Biology, Univ. of Minnesota, Saint Paul, MN, 55108, USA
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- Section of Plant Breeding and Genetics, Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY, 14853, USA
- Institute for Genomic Diversity, Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY, 14853, USA
- USDA-ARS, Ithaca, NY, 14853, USA
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Alharbi WS, Rashid M. A review of deep learning applications in human genomics using next-generation sequencing data. Hum Genomics 2022; 16:26. [PMID: 35879805 PMCID: PMC9317091 DOI: 10.1186/s40246-022-00396-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/24/2021] [Accepted: 07/12/2022] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
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Genomics is advancing towards data-driven science. Through the advent of high-throughput data generating technologies in human genomics, we are overwhelmed with the heap of genomic data. To extract knowledge and pattern out of this genomic data, artificial intelligence especially deep learning methods has been instrumental. In the current review, we address development and application of deep learning methods/models in different subarea of human genomics. We assessed over- and under-charted area of genomics by deep learning techniques. Deep learning algorithms underlying the genomic tools have been discussed briefly in later part of this review. Finally, we discussed briefly about the late application of deep learning tools in genomic. Conclusively, this review is timely for biotechnology or genomic scientists in order to guide them why, when and how to use deep learning methods to analyse human genomic data.
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- Wardah S Alharbi
- Department of AI and Bioinformatics, King Abdullah International Medical Research Center (KAIMRC), King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences (KSAU-HS), King Abdulaziz Medical City, Ministry of National Guard Health Affairs, P.O. Box 22490, Riyadh, 11426, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of AI and Bioinformatics, King Abdullah International Medical Research Center (KAIMRC), King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences (KSAU-HS), King Abdulaziz Medical City, Ministry of National Guard Health Affairs, P.O. Box 22490, Riyadh, 11426, Saudi Arabia.
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Dodlapati S, Jiang Z, Sun J. Completing Single-Cell DNA Methylome Profiles via Transfer Learning Together With KL-Divergence. Front Genet 2022; 13:910439. [PMID: 35938031 PMCID: PMC9353187 DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2022.910439] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/01/2022] [Accepted: 05/25/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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The high level of sparsity in methylome profiles obtained using whole-genome bisulfite sequencing in the case of low biological material amount limits its value in the study of systems in which large samples are difficult to assemble, such as mammalian preimplantation embryonic development. The recently developed computational methods for addressing the sparsity by imputing missing have their limits when the required minimum data coverage or profiles of the same tissue in other modalities are not available. In this study, we explored the use of transfer learning together with Kullback-Leibler (KL) divergence to train predictive models for completing methylome profiles with very low coverage (below 2%). Transfer learning was used to leverage less sparse profiles that are typically available for different tissues for the same species, while KL divergence was employed to maximize the usage of information carried in the input data. A deep neural network was adopted to extract both DNA sequence and local methylation patterns for imputation. Our study of training models for completing methylome profiles of bovine oocytes and early embryos demonstrates the effectiveness of transfer learning and KL divergence, with individual increase of 29.98 and 29.43%, respectively, in prediction performance and 38.70% increase when the two were used together. The drastically increased data coverage (43.80-73.6%) after imputation powers downstream analyses involving methylomes that cannot be effectively done using the very low coverage profiles (0.06-1.47%) before imputation.
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- Sanjeeva Dodlapati
- Department of Computer Science, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, United States
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- School of Animal Sciences, AgCenter, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, United States
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- Department of Computer Science, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, United States
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Asim MN, Ibrahim MA, Malik MI, Razzak I, Dengel A, Ahmed S. Histone-Net: a multi-paradigm computational framework for histone occupancy and modification prediction. COMPLEX INTELL SYST 2022. [DOI: 10.1007/s40747-022-00802-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/17/2022]
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AbstractDeep exploration of histone occupancy and covalent post-translational modifications (e.g., acetylation, methylation) is essential to decode gene expression regulation, chromosome packaging, DNA damage, and transcriptional activation. Existing computational approaches are unable to precisely predict histone occupancy and modifications mainly due to the use of sub-optimal statistical representation of histone sequences. For the establishment of an improved histone occupancy and modification landscape for multiple histone markers, the paper in hand presents an end-to-end computational multi-paradigm framework “Histone-Net”. To learn local and global residue context aware sequence representation, Histone-Net generates unsupervised higher order residue embeddings (DNA2Vec) and presents a different application of language modelling, where it encapsulates histone occupancy and modification information while generating higher order residue embeddings (SuperDNA2Vec) in a supervised manner. We perform an intrinsic and extrinsic evaluation of both presented distributed representation learning schemes. A comprehensive empirical evaluation of Histone-Net over ten benchmark histone markers data sets for three different histone sequence analysis tasks indicates that SuperDNA2Vec sequence representation and softmax classifier-based approach outperforms state-of-the-art approach by an average accuracy of 7%. To eliminate the overhead of training separate binary classifiers for all ten histone markers, Histone-Net is evaluated in multi-label classification paradigm, where it produces decent performance for simultaneous prediction of histone occupancy, acetylation, and methylation.
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Yang CH, Wu KC, Chuang LY, Chang HW. DeepBarcoding: Deep Learning for Species Classification Using DNA Barcoding. IEEE/ACM TRANSACTIONS ON COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY AND BIOINFORMATICS 2022; 19:2158-2165. [PMID: 33600318 DOI: 10.1109/tcbb.2021.3056570] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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DNA barcodes with short sequence fragments are used for species identification. Because of advances in sequencing technologies, DNA barcodes have gradually been emphasized. DNA sequences from different organisms are easily and rapidly acquired. Therefore, DNA sequence analysis tools play an increasingly crucial role in species identification. This study proposed deep barcoding, a deep learning framework for species classification by using DNA barcodes. Deep barcoding uses raw sequence data as the input to represent one-hot encoding as a one-dimensional image and uses a deep convolutional neural network with a fully connected deep neural network for sequence analysis. It can achieve an average accuracy of >90 percent for both simulation and real datasets. Although deep learning yields outstanding performance for species classification with DNA sequences, its application remains a challenge. The deep barcoding model can be a potential tool for species classification and can elucidate DNA barcode-based species identification.
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The tremendous amount of biological sequence data available, combined with the recent methodological breakthrough in deep learning in domains such as computer vision or natural language processing, is leading today to the transformation of bioinformatics through the emergence of deep genomics, the application of deep learning to genomic sequences. We review here the new applications that the use of deep learning enables in the field, focusing on three aspects: the functional annotation of genomes, the sequence determinants of the genome functions and the possibility to write synthetic genomic sequences.
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Liu Q, Hua K, Zhang X, Wong WH, Jiang R. DeepCAGE: Incorporating Transcription Factors in Genome-wide Prediction of Chromatin Accessibility. GENOMICS, PROTEOMICS & BIOINFORMATICS 2022; 20:496-507. [PMID: 35293310 PMCID: PMC9801045 DOI: 10.1016/j.gpb.2021.08.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/31/2021] [Revised: 05/31/2021] [Accepted: 09/27/2021] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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Although computational approaches have been complementing high-throughput biological experiments for the identification of functional regions in the human genome, it remains a great challenge to systematically decipher interactions between transcription factors (TFs) and regulatory elements to achieve interpretable annotations of chromatin accessibility across diverse cellular contexts. To solve this problem, we propose DeepCAGE, a deep learning framework that integrates sequence information and binding statuses of TFs, for the accurate prediction of chromatin accessible regions at a genome-wide scale in a variety of cell types. DeepCAGE takes advantage of a densely connected deep convolutional neural network architecture to automatically learn sequence signatures of known chromatin accessible regions and then incorporates such features with expression levels and binding activities of human core TFs to predict novel chromatin accessible regions. In a series of systematic comparisons with existing methods, DeepCAGE exhibits superior performance in not only the classification but also the regression of chromatin accessibility signals. In a detailed analysis of TF activities, DeepCAGE successfully extracts novel binding motifs and measures the contribution of a TF to the regulation with respect to a specific locus in a certain cell type. When applied to whole-genome sequencing data analysis, our method successfully prioritizes putative deleterious variants underlying a human complex trait and thus provides insights into the understanding of disease-associated genetic variants. DeepCAGE can be downloaded from https://github.com/kimmo1019/DeepCAGE.
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- Qiao Liu
- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Bioinformatics; Bioinformatics Division, Beijing National Research Center for Information Science and Technology; Center for Synthetic and Systems Biology, Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China,Department of Statistics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Bioinformatics; Bioinformatics Division, Beijing National Research Center for Information Science and Technology; Center for Synthetic and Systems Biology, Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
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- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Bioinformatics; Bioinformatics Division, Beijing National Research Center for Information Science and Technology; Center for Synthetic and Systems Biology, Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
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- Department of Statistics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA,Corresponding authors.
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- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Bioinformatics; Bioinformatics Division, Beijing National Research Center for Information Science and Technology; Center for Synthetic and Systems Biology, Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China,Corresponding authors.
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Yu B, Zhang Y, Wang X, Gao H, Sun J, Gao X. Identification of DNA modification sites based on elastic net and bidirectional gated recurrent unit with convolutional neural network. Biomed Signal Process Control 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bspc.2022.103566] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Yin Q, Liu Q, Fu Z, Zeng W, Zhang B, Zhang X, Jiang R, Lv H. scGraph: a graph neural network-based approach to automatically identify cell types. Bioinformatics 2022; 38:2996-3003. [PMID: 35394015 DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btac199] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/22/2021] [Revised: 12/13/2021] [Accepted: 04/07/2020] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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MOTIVATION Single cell technologies play a crucial role in revolutionizing biological research over the past decade, which strengthens our understanding in cell differentiation, development, and regulation from a single-cell level perspective. Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) is one of the most common single cell technologies, which enables probing transcriptional states in thousands of cells in one experiment. Identification of cell types from scRNA-seq measurements is a fundamental and crucial question to answer. Most previous studies directly take gene expression as input while ignoring the comprehensive gene-gene interactions. RESULTS We propose scGraph, an automatic cell identification algorithm leveraging gene interaction relationships to enhance the performance of the cell type identification. ScGraph is based on a graph neural network to aggregate the information of interacting genes. In a series of experiments, we demonstrate that scGraph is accurate and outperforms eight comparison methods in the task of cell type identification. Moreover, scGraph automatically learns the gene interaction relationships from biological data and the pathway enrichment analysis shows consistent findings with previous analysis, providing insights on the analysis of regulatory mechanism. AVAILABILITY scGraph is freely available at https://github.com/QijinYin/scGraph and https://figshare.com/articles/software/scGraph/17157743. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
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- Qijin Yin
- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Bioinformatics, Research Department of Bioinformatics at the Beijing National Research Center for Information Science and Technology, Center for Synthetic and Systems Biology, Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
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- Department of Statistics, Stanford University Stanford, CA 94305
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- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Bioinformatics, Research Department of Bioinformatics at the Beijing National Research Center for Information Science and Technology, Center for Synthetic and Systems Biology, Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
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- Department of Statistics, Stanford University Stanford, CA 94305.,College of Software, Nankai University, Tianjin, 300350, China
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- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Bioinformatics, Research Department of Bioinformatics at the Beijing National Research Center for Information Science and Technology, Center for Synthetic and Systems Biology, Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
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- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Bioinformatics, Research Department of Bioinformatics at the Beijing National Research Center for Information Science and Technology, Center for Synthetic and Systems Biology, Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
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- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Bioinformatics, Research Department of Bioinformatics at the Beijing National Research Center for Information Science and Technology, Center for Synthetic and Systems Biology, Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
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- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Bioinformatics, Research Department of Bioinformatics at the Beijing National Research Center for Information Science and Technology, Center for Synthetic and Systems Biology, Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.,Fuzhou Institute of Data Technology, Changle, Fuzhou, 350200, China
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SemanticCAP: Chromatin Accessibility Prediction Enhanced by Features Learning from a Language Model. Genes (Basel) 2022; 13:genes13040568. [PMID: 35456374 PMCID: PMC9028922 DOI: 10.3390/genes13040568] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/17/2022] [Revised: 03/22/2022] [Accepted: 03/22/2022] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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A large number of inorganic and organic compounds are able to bind DNA and form complexes, among which drug-related molecules are important. Chromatin accessibility changes not only directly affect drug–DNA interactions, but they can promote or inhibit the expression of the critical genes associated with drug resistance by affecting the DNA binding capacity of TFs and transcriptional regulators. However, the biological experimental techniques for measuring it are expensive and time-consuming. In recent years, several kinds of computational methods have been proposed to identify accessible regions of the genome. Existing computational models mostly ignore the contextual information provided by the bases in gene sequences. To address these issues, we proposed a new solution called SemanticCAP. It introduces a gene language model that models the context of gene sequences and is thus able to provide an effective representation of a certain site in a gene sequence. Basically, we merged the features provided by the gene language model into our chromatin accessibility model. During the process, we designed methods called SFA and SFC to make feature fusion smoother. Compared to DeepSEA, gkm-SVM, and k-mer using public benchmarks, our model proved to have better performance, showing a 1.25% maximum improvement in auROC and a 2.41% maximum improvement in auPRC.
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Liu S, Cheng H, Ashraf J, Zhang Y, Wang Q, Lv L, He M, Song G, Zuo D. Interpretation of convolutional neural networks reveals crucial sequence features involving in transcription during fiber development. BMC Bioinformatics 2022; 23:91. [PMID: 35291940 PMCID: PMC8922751 DOI: 10.1186/s12859-022-04619-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/16/2021] [Accepted: 02/22/2022] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Upland cotton provides the most natural fiber in the world. During fiber development, the quality and yield of fiber were influenced by gene transcription. Revealing sequence features related to transcription has a profound impact on cotton molecular breeding. We applied convolutional neural networks to predict gene expression status based on the sequences of gene transcription start regions. After that, a gradient-based interpretation and an N-adjusted kernel transformation were implemented to extract sequence features contributing to transcription. RESULTS Our models had approximate 80% accuracies, and the area under the receiver operating characteristic curve reached over 0.85. Gradient-based interpretation revealed 5' untranslated region contributed to gene transcription. Furthermore, 6 DOF binding motifs and 4 transcription activator binding motifs were obtained by N-adjusted kernel-motif transformation from models in three developmental stages. Apart from 10 general motifs, 3 DOF5.1 genes were also detected. In silico analysis about these motifs' binding proteins implied their potential functions in fiber formation. Besides, we also found some novel motifs in plants as important sequence features for transcription. CONCLUSIONS In conclusion, the N-adjusted kernel transformation method could interpret convolutional neural networks and reveal important sequence features related to transcription during fiber development. Potential functions of motifs interpreted from convolutional neural networks could be validated by further wet-lab experiments and applied in cotton molecular breeding.
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- Shang Liu
- Institute of Cotton Research of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Anyang, 455000, China.,Zhengzhou Research Base, State Key Laboratory of Cotton Biology, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, 450001, China
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- Institute of Cotton Research of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Anyang, 455000, China.,Zhengzhou Research Base, State Key Laboratory of Cotton Biology, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, 450001, China
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- Institute of Cotton Research of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Anyang, 455000, China.,Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, University College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, Punjab, 63100, Pakistan
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- Institute of Cotton Research of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Anyang, 455000, China.,Zhengzhou Research Base, State Key Laboratory of Cotton Biology, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, 450001, China
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- Institute of Cotton Research of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Anyang, 455000, China.,Zhengzhou Research Base, State Key Laboratory of Cotton Biology, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, 450001, China
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- Institute of Cotton Research of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Anyang, 455000, China.,Zhengzhou Research Base, State Key Laboratory of Cotton Biology, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, 450001, China
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- Institute of Cotton Research of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Anyang, 455000, China
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- Institute of Cotton Research of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Anyang, 455000, China. .,Zhengzhou Research Base, State Key Laboratory of Cotton Biology, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, 450001, China.
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- Institute of Cotton Research of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Anyang, 455000, China. .,Zhengzhou Research Base, State Key Laboratory of Cotton Biology, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, 450001, China.
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Base-resolution prediction of transcription factor binding signals by a deep learning framework. PLoS Comput Biol 2022; 18:e1009941. [PMID: 35263332 PMCID: PMC8982852 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1009941] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/05/2021] [Revised: 04/05/2022] [Accepted: 02/19/2022] [Indexed: 01/13/2023] Open
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Transcription factors (TFs) play an important role in regulating gene expression, thus the identification of the sites bound by them has become a fundamental step for molecular and cellular biology. In this paper, we developed a deep learning framework leveraging existing fully convolutional neural networks (FCN) to predict TF-DNA binding signals at the base-resolution level (named as FCNsignal). The proposed FCNsignal can simultaneously achieve the following tasks: (i) modeling the base-resolution signals of binding regions; (ii) discriminating binding or non-binding regions; (iii) locating TF-DNA binding regions; (iv) predicting binding motifs. Besides, FCNsignal can also be used to predict opening regions across the whole genome. The experimental results on 53 TF ChIP-seq datasets and 6 chromatin accessibility ATAC-seq datasets show that our proposed framework outperforms some existing state-of-the-art methods. In addition, we explored to use the trained FCNsignal to locate all potential TF-DNA binding regions on a whole chromosome and predict DNA sequences of arbitrary length, and the results show that our framework can find most of the known binding regions and accept sequences of arbitrary length. Furthermore, we demonstrated the potential ability of our framework in discovering causal disease-associated single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) through a series of experiments.
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Air Pollution and Perinatal Health in the Eastern Mediterranean Region: Challenges, Limitations, and the Potential of Epigenetics. Curr Environ Health Rep 2022; 9:1-10. [PMID: 35080743 DOI: 10.1007/s40572-022-00337-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 12/26/2021] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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PURPOSE OF REVIEW Even though the burden of disease attributable to air pollution is high in the Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMR), the number of studies linking environmental exposures to negative health outcomes remains scarce and limited in scope. This review aims to assess the literature on exposure to air pollutants and perinatal health in the EMR and to explain the potential of epigenetics in exploring the processes behind adverse birth outcomes. RECENT FINDINGS In the last three decades, hundreds of studies and publications tackled the health effects of air pollution on birth outcomes and early life development, but only a small number of these studies was conducted in the EMR. The existing literature is concentrated in specific geographic locations and is focused on a limited number of exposures and outcomes. Main limitations include inconsistent and poorly funded air quality monitoring, inappropriate study designs, imprecise and/or unreliable assessments of exposures, and outcomes. Even though the studies establish associations between air pollutants and adverse birth outcomes, the mechanisms through which these processes take place are yet to be fully understood. A likely candidate to explain these processes is epigenetics; however, epigenetics research on the impact of air pollution in EMR is still in its infancy. This review highlights the need for future research examining perinatal health and air pollutants, especially the epigenetic processes that underlie the adverse birth outcomes, to better understand them and to develop effective recommendations and intervention strategies.
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Zhao Y, Dong Y, Hong W, Jiang C, Yao K, Cheng C. Computational modeling of chromatin accessibility identified important epigenomic regulators. BMC Genomics 2022; 23:19. [PMID: 34996354 PMCID: PMC8742372 DOI: 10.1186/s12864-021-08234-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/30/2021] [Accepted: 12/03/2021] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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Chromatin accessibility is essential for transcriptional activation of genomic regions. It is well established that transcription factors (TFs) and histone modifications (HMs) play critical roles in chromatin accessibility regulation. However, there is a lack of studies that quantify these relationships. Here we constructed a two-layer model to predict chromatin accessibility by integrating DNA sequence, TF binding, and HM signals. By applying the model to two human cell lines (GM12878 and HepG2), we found that DNA sequences had limited power for accessibility prediction, while both TF binding and HM signals predicted chromatin accessibility with high accuracy. According to the HM model, HM features determined chromatin accessibility in a cell line shared manner, with the prediction power attributing to five core HM types. Results from the TF model indicated that chromatin accessibility was determined by a subset of informative TFs including both cell line-specific and generic TFs. The combined model of both TF and HM signals did not further improve the prediction accuracy, indicating that they provide redundant information in terms of chromatin accessibility prediction. The TFs and HM models can also distinguish the chromatin accessibility of proximal versus distal transcription start sites with high accuracy.
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- Yanding Zhao
- Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Room ICTR 100D, One Baylor Plaza, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, 77030, USA
- The Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, Baylor College of Medicine, Room ICTR 100D, One Baylor Plaza, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, 77030, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Room ICTR 100D, One Baylor Plaza, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, 77030, USA
- The Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, Baylor College of Medicine, Room ICTR 100D, One Baylor Plaza, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, 77030, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Room ICTR 100D, One Baylor Plaza, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, 77030, USA
- The Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, Baylor College of Medicine, Room ICTR 100D, One Baylor Plaza, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, 77030, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Room ICTR 100D, One Baylor Plaza, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, 77030, USA
- The Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, Baylor College of Medicine, Room ICTR 100D, One Baylor Plaza, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, 77030, USA
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, 77843, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Room ICTR 100D, One Baylor Plaza, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, 77030, USA.
- The Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, Baylor College of Medicine, Room ICTR 100D, One Baylor Plaza, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, 77030, USA.
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Vaz JM, Balaji S. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs): concepts and applications in pharmacogenomics. Mol Divers 2021; 25:1569-1584. [PMID: 34031788 PMCID: PMC8342355 DOI: 10.1007/s11030-021-10225-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/06/2021] [Accepted: 04/21/2021] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been used to extract information from various datasets of different dimensions. This approach has led to accurate interpretations in several subfields of biological research, like pharmacogenomics, addressing issues previously faced by other computational methods. With the rising attention for personalized and precision medicine, scientists and clinicians have now turned to artificial intelligence systems to provide them with solutions for therapeutics development. CNNs have already provided valuable insights into biological data transformation. Due to the rise of interest in precision and personalized medicine, in this review, we have provided a brief overview of the possibilities of implementing CNNs as an effective tool for analyzing one-dimensional biological data, such as nucleotide and protein sequences, as well as small molecular data, e.g., simplified molecular-input line-entry specification, InChI, binary fingerprints, etc., to categorize the models based on their objective and also highlight various challenges. The review is organized into specific research domains that participate in pharmacogenomics for a more comprehensive understanding. Furthermore, the future intentions of deep learning are outlined.
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- Joel Markus Vaz
- Department of Biotechnology, Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, Karnataka, 576104, India
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- Department of Biotechnology, Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, Karnataka, 576104, India.
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Atak ZK, Taskiran II, Demeulemeester J, Flerin C, Mauduit D, Minnoye L, Hulselmans G, Christiaens V, Ghanem GE, Wouters J, Aerts S. Interpretation of allele-specific chromatin accessibility using cell state-aware deep learning. Genome Res 2021; 31:1082-1096. [PMID: 33832990 PMCID: PMC8168584 DOI: 10.1101/gr.260851.120] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/30/2020] [Accepted: 04/05/2021] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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Genomic sequence variation within enhancers and promoters can have a significant impact on the cellular state and phenotype. However, sifting through the millions of candidate variants in a personal genome or a cancer genome, to identify those that impact cis-regulatory function, remains a major challenge. Interpretation of noncoding genome variation benefits from explainable artificial intelligence to predict and interpret the impact of a mutation on gene regulation. Here we generate phased whole genomes with matched chromatin accessibility, histone modifications, and gene expression for 10 melanoma cell lines. We find that training a specialized deep learning model, called DeepMEL2, on melanoma chromatin accessibility data can capture the various regulatory programs of the melanocytic and mesenchymal-like melanoma cell states. This model outperforms motif-based variant scoring, as well as more generic deep learning models. We detect hundreds to thousands of allele-specific chromatin accessibility variants (ASCAVs) in each melanoma genome, of which 15%-20% can be explained by gains or losses of transcription factor binding sites. A considerable fraction of ASCAVs are caused by changes in AP-1 binding, as confirmed by matched ChIP-seq data to identify allele-specific binding of JUN and FOSL1. Finally, by augmenting the DeepMEL2 model with ChIP-seq data for GABPA, the TERT promoter mutation, as well as additional ETS motif gains, can be identified with high confidence. In conclusion, we present a new integrative genomics approach and a deep learning model to identify and interpret functional enhancer mutations with allelic imbalance of chromatin accessibility and gene expression.
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- Zeynep Kalender Atak
- VIB-KU Leuven Center for Brain and Disease Research, 3000 Leuven, Belgium.,KU Leuven, Department of Human Genetics KU Leuven, 3000 Leuven, Belgium
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- VIB-KU Leuven Center for Brain and Disease Research, 3000 Leuven, Belgium.,KU Leuven, Department of Human Genetics KU Leuven, 3000 Leuven, Belgium
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- VIB-KU Leuven Center for Brain and Disease Research, 3000 Leuven, Belgium.,KU Leuven, Department of Human Genetics KU Leuven, 3000 Leuven, Belgium.,Cancer Genomics Laboratory, The Francis Crick Institute, London NW1 1AT, United Kingdom
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- VIB-KU Leuven Center for Brain and Disease Research, 3000 Leuven, Belgium.,KU Leuven, Department of Human Genetics KU Leuven, 3000 Leuven, Belgium
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- VIB-KU Leuven Center for Brain and Disease Research, 3000 Leuven, Belgium.,KU Leuven, Department of Human Genetics KU Leuven, 3000 Leuven, Belgium
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- VIB-KU Leuven Center for Brain and Disease Research, 3000 Leuven, Belgium.,KU Leuven, Department of Human Genetics KU Leuven, 3000 Leuven, Belgium
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- VIB-KU Leuven Center for Brain and Disease Research, 3000 Leuven, Belgium.,KU Leuven, Department of Human Genetics KU Leuven, 3000 Leuven, Belgium
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- VIB-KU Leuven Center for Brain and Disease Research, 3000 Leuven, Belgium.,KU Leuven, Department of Human Genetics KU Leuven, 3000 Leuven, Belgium
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- Institut Jules Bordet, Université Libre de Bruxelles, 1000 Brussels, Belgium
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- VIB-KU Leuven Center for Brain and Disease Research, 3000 Leuven, Belgium.,KU Leuven, Department of Human Genetics KU Leuven, 3000 Leuven, Belgium
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- VIB-KU Leuven Center for Brain and Disease Research, 3000 Leuven, Belgium.,KU Leuven, Department of Human Genetics KU Leuven, 3000 Leuven, Belgium
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Liu Q, Hu Z, Jiang R, Zhou M. DeepCDR: a hybrid graph convolutional network for predicting cancer drug response. Bioinformatics 2021; 36:i911-i918. [PMID: 33381841 DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btaa822] [Citation(s) in RCA: 84] [Impact Index Per Article: 28.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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MOTIVATION Accurate prediction of cancer drug response (CDR) is challenging due to the uncertainty of drug efficacy and heterogeneity of cancer patients. Strong evidences have implicated the high dependence of CDR on tumor genomic and transcriptomic profiles of individual patients. Precise identification of CDR is crucial in both guiding anti-cancer drug design and understanding cancer biology. RESULTS In this study, we present DeepCDR which integrates multi-omics profiles of cancer cells and explores intrinsic chemical structures of drugs for predicting CDR. Specifically, DeepCDR is a hybrid graph convolutional network consisting of a uniform graph convolutional network and multiple subnetworks. Unlike prior studies modeling hand-crafted features of drugs, DeepCDR automatically learns the latent representation of topological structures among atoms and bonds of drugs. Extensive experiments showed that DeepCDR outperformed state-of-the-art methods in both classification and regression settings under various data settings. We also evaluated the contribution of different types of omics profiles for assessing drug response. Furthermore, we provided an exploratory strategy for identifying potential cancer-associated genes concerning specific cancer types. Our results highlighted the predictive power of DeepCDR and its potential translational value in guiding disease-specific drug design. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION DeepCDR is freely available at https://github.com/kimmo1019/DeepCDR. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
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- Qiao Liu
- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Bioinformatics, Research Department of Bioinformatics, Beijing National Research Center, Information Science and Technology, Center for Synthetic and Systems Biology.,Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
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- Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.,SenseTime Research, Shanghai 200233, China
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- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Bioinformatics, Research Department of Bioinformatics, Beijing National Research Center, Information Science and Technology, Center for Synthetic and Systems Biology.,Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
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- SenseBrain Research, San Jose, CA 95131, USA
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Chen S, Gan M, Lv H, Jiang R. DeepCAPE: A Deep Convolutional Neural Network for the Accurate Prediction of Enhancers. GENOMICS PROTEOMICS & BIOINFORMATICS 2021; 19:565-577. [PMID: 33581335 PMCID: PMC9040020 DOI: 10.1016/j.gpb.2019.04.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/24/2018] [Revised: 03/15/2019] [Accepted: 04/29/2019] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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The establishment of a landscape of enhancers across human cells is crucial to deciphering the mechanism of gene regulation, cell differentiation, and disease development. High-throughput experimental approaches, which contain successfully reported enhancers in typical cell lines, are still too costly and time-consuming to perform systematic identification of enhancers specific to different cell lines. Existing computational methods, capable of predicting regulatory elements purely relying on DNA sequences, lack the power of cell line-specific screening. Recent studies have suggested that chromatin accessibility of a DNA segment is closely related to its potential function in regulation, and thus may provide useful information in identifying regulatory elements. Motivated by the aforementioned understanding, we integrate DNA sequences and chromatin accessibility data to accurately predict enhancers in a cell line-specific manner. We proposed DeepCAPE, a deep convolutional neural network to predict enhancers via the integration of DNA sequences and DNase-seq data. Benefitting from the well-designed feature extraction mechanism and skip connection strategy, our model not only consistently outperforms existing methods in the imbalanced classification of cell line-specific enhancers against background sequences, but also has the ability to self-adapt to different sizes of datasets. Besides, with the adoption of auto-encoder, our model is capable of making cross-cell line predictions. We further visualize kernels of the first convolutional layer and show the match of identified sequence signatures and known motifs. We finally demonstrate the potential ability of our model to explain functional implications of putative disease-associated genetic variants and discriminate disease-related enhancers. The source code and detailed tutorial of DeepCAPE are freely available at https://github.com/ShengquanChen/DeepCAPE.
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- Shengquan Chen
- MOE Key Laboratory of Bioinformatics, Research Department of Bioinformatics at the Beijing National Research Center for Information Science and Technology, Center for Synthetic and Systems Biology, Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
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- Department of Management Science and Engineering, School of Economics and Management, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing 100083, China
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- MOE Key Laboratory of Bioinformatics, Research Department of Bioinformatics at the Beijing National Research Center for Information Science and Technology, Center for Synthetic and Systems Biology, Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
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- MOE Key Laboratory of Bioinformatics, Research Department of Bioinformatics at the Beijing National Research Center for Information Science and Technology, Center for Synthetic and Systems Biology, Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.
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Jing F, Zhang SW, Cao Z, Zhang S. An Integrative Framework for Combining Sequence and Epigenomic Data to Predict Transcription Factor Binding Sites Using Deep Learning. IEEE/ACM TRANSACTIONS ON COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY AND BIOINFORMATICS 2021; 18:355-364. [PMID: 30835229 DOI: 10.1109/tcbb.2019.2901789] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Knowing the transcription factor binding sites (TFBSs) is essential for modeling the underlying binding mechanisms and follow-up cellular functions. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have outperformed methods in predicting TFBSs from the primary DNA sequence. In addition to DNA sequences, histone modifications and chromatin accessibility are also important factors influencing their activity. They have been explored to predict TFBSs recently. However, current methods rarely take into account histone modifications and chromatin accessibility using CNN in an integrative framework. To this end, we developed a general CNN model to integrate these data for predicting TFBSs. We systematically benchmarked a series of architecture variants by changing network structure in terms of width and depth, and explored the effects of sample length at flanking regions. We evaluated the performance of the three types of data and their combinations using 256 ChIP-seq experiments and also compared it with competing machine learning methods. We find that contributions from these three types of data are complementary to each other. Moreover, the integrative CNN framework is superior to traditional machine learning methods with significant improvements.
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The progress on the estimation of DNA methylation level and the detection of abnormal methylation. QUANTITATIVE BIOLOGY 2021. [DOI: 10.15302/j-qb-022-0289] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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He Y, Shen Z, Zhang Q, Wang S, Huang DS. A survey on deep learning in DNA/RNA motif mining. Brief Bioinform 2020; 22:5916939. [PMID: 33005921 PMCID: PMC8293829 DOI: 10.1093/bib/bbaa229] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/18/2020] [Revised: 08/19/2020] [Accepted: 08/24/2020] [Indexed: 01/18/2023] Open
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DNA/RNA motif mining is the foundation of gene function research. The DNA/RNA motif mining plays an extremely important role in identifying the DNA- or RNA-protein binding site, which helps to understand the mechanism of gene regulation and management. For the past few decades, researchers have been working on designing new efficient and accurate algorithms for mining motif. These algorithms can be roughly divided into two categories: the enumeration approach and the probabilistic method. In recent years, machine learning methods had made great progress, especially the algorithm represented by deep learning had achieved good performance. Existing deep learning methods in motif mining can be roughly divided into three types of models: convolutional neural network (CNN) based models, recurrent neural network (RNN) based models, and hybrid CNN–RNN based models. We introduce the application of deep learning in the field of motif mining in terms of data preprocessing, features of existing deep learning architectures and comparing the differences between the basic deep learning models. Through the analysis and comparison of existing deep learning methods, we found that the more complex models tend to perform better than simple ones when data are sufficient, and the current methods are relatively simple compared with other fields such as computer vision, language processing (NLP), computer games, etc. Therefore, it is necessary to conduct a summary in motif mining by deep learning, which can help researchers understand this field.
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- Ying He
- computer science and technology at Tongji University, China
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- computer science and technology at Tongji University, China
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- computer science and technology at Tongji University, China
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- computer science and technology at Tongji University, China
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- Institute of Machines Learning and Systems Biology, Tongji University
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Zeng W, Wang Y, Jiang R. Integrating distal and proximal information to predict gene expression via a densely connected convolutional neural network. Bioinformatics 2020; 36:496-503. [PMID: 31318408 DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btz562] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/12/2018] [Revised: 05/19/2019] [Accepted: 07/16/2019] [Indexed: 01/05/2023] Open
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MOTIVATION Interactions among cis-regulatory elements such as enhancers and promoters are main driving forces shaping context-specific chromatin structure and gene expression. Although there have been computational methods for predicting gene expression from genomic and epigenomic information, most of them neglect long-range enhancer-promoter interactions, due to the difficulty in precisely linking regulatory enhancers to target genes. Recently, HiChIP, a novel high-throughput experimental approach, has generated comprehensive data on high-resolution interactions between promoters and distal enhancers. Moreover, plenty of studies suggest that deep learning achieves state-of-the-art performance in epigenomic signal prediction, and thus promoting the understanding of regulatory elements. In consideration of these two factors, we integrate proximal promoter sequences and HiChIP distal enhancer-promoter interactions to accurately predict gene expression. RESULTS We propose DeepExpression, a densely connected convolutional neural network, to predict gene expression using both promoter sequences and enhancer-promoter interactions. We demonstrate that our model consistently outperforms baseline methods, not only in the classification of binary gene expression status but also in regression of continuous gene expression levels, in both cross-validation experiments and cross-cell line predictions. We show that the sequential promoter information is more informative than the experimental enhancer information; meanwhile, the enhancer-promoter interactions within ±100 kbp around the TSS of a gene are most beneficial. We finally visualize motifs in both promoter and enhancer regions and show the match of identified sequence signatures with known motifs. We expect to see a wide spectrum of applications using HiChIP data in deciphering the mechanism of gene regulation. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION DeepExpression is freely available at https://github.com/wanwenzeng/DeepExpression. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
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- Wanwen Zeng
- MOE Key Laboratory of Bioinformatics, Beijing National Research Center for Information Science and Technology, Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
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- CEMS, NCMIS, MDIS, Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, National Center for Mathematics and Interdisciplinary Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080, China.,Center for Excellence in Animal Evolution and Genetics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650223, China
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- MOE Key Laboratory of Bioinformatics, Beijing National Research Center for Information Science and Technology, Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
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Fu L, Peng Q, Chai L. Predicting DNA Methylation States with Hybrid Information Based Deep-Learning Model. IEEE/ACM TRANSACTIONS ON COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY AND BIOINFORMATICS 2020; 17:1721-1728. [PMID: 30951477 DOI: 10.1109/tcbb.2019.2909237] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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DNA methylation plays an important role in the regulation of some biological processes. Up to now, with the development of machine learning models, there are several sequence-based deep learning models designed to predict DNA methylation states, which gain better performance than traditional methods like random forest and SVM. However, convolutional network based deep learning models that use one-hot encoding DNA sequence as input may discover limited information and cause unsatisfactory prediction performance, so more data and model structures of diverse angles should be considered. In this work, we proposed a hybrid sequence-based deep learning model with both MeDIP-seq data and Histone information to predict DNA methylated CpG states (MHCpG). We combined both MeDIP-seq data and histone modification data with sequence information and implemented convolutional network to discover sequence patterns. In addition, we used statistical data gained from previous three input data and adopted a 3-layer feedforward neuron network to extract more high-level features. We compared our method with traditional predicting methods using random forest and other previous methods like CpGenie and DeepCpG, the result showed that MHCpG exceeded the other approaches and gained more satisfactory performance.
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Liu Q, Lv H, Jiang R. hicGAN infers super resolution Hi-C data with generative adversarial networks. Bioinformatics 2020; 35:i99-i107. [PMID: 31510693 PMCID: PMC6612845 DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btz317] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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Motivation Hi-C is a genome-wide technology for investigating 3D chromatin conformation by measuring physical contacts between pairs of genomic regions. The resolution of Hi-C data directly impacts the effectiveness and accuracy of downstream analysis such as identifying topologically associating domains (TADs) and meaningful chromatin loops. High resolution Hi-C data are valuable resources which implicate the relationship between 3D genome conformation and function, especially linking distal regulatory elements to their target genes. However, high resolution Hi-C data across various tissues and cell types are not always available due to the high sequencing cost. It is therefore indispensable to develop computational approaches for enhancing the resolution of Hi-C data. Results We proposed hicGAN, an open-sourced framework, for inferring high resolution Hi-C data from low resolution Hi-C data with generative adversarial networks (GANs). To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study to apply GANs to 3D genome analysis. We demonstrate that hicGAN effectively enhances the resolution of low resolution Hi-C data by generating matrices that are highly consistent with the original high resolution Hi-C matrices. A typical scenario of usage for our approach is to enhance low resolution Hi-C data in new cell types, especially where the high resolution Hi-C data are not available. Our study not only presents a novel approach for enhancing Hi-C data resolution, but also provides fascinating insights into disclosing complex mechanism underlying the formation of chromatin contacts. Availability and implementation We release hicGAN as an open-sourced software at https://github.com/kimmo1019/hicGAN. Supplementary information Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
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- Qiao Liu
- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Bioinformatics, Bioinformatics Division and Center for Synthetic and Systems Biology, Beijing National Research Center for Information Science and Technology, Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
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- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Bioinformatics, Bioinformatics Division and Center for Synthetic and Systems Biology, Beijing National Research Center for Information Science and Technology, Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
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- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Bioinformatics, Bioinformatics Division and Center for Synthetic and Systems Biology, Beijing National Research Center for Information Science and Technology, Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
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Xu C, Liu Q, Zhou J, Xie M, Feng J, Jiang T. Quantifying functional impact of non-coding variants with multi-task Bayesian neural network. Bioinformatics 2020; 36:1397-1404. [PMID: 31693090 DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btz767] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/27/2019] [Revised: 09/29/2019] [Accepted: 11/04/2019] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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MOTIVATION Advances in high-throughput genotyping and sequencing technologies during recent years have revealed essential roles of non-coding regions in gene regulation. Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) suggested that a large proportion of risk variants are located in non-coding regions and remain unexplained by current expression quantitative trait loci catalogs. Interpreting the causal effects of these genetic modifications is crucial but difficult owing to our limited knowledge of how regulatory elements function. Although several computational methods have been designed to prioritize regulatory variants that substantially impact human phenotypes, few of them achieve consistently high performance even when large-scale multi-omic data are integrated. RESULTS We propose a novel multi-task framework based on Bayesian deep neural networks, MtBNN, to quantify the deleterious impact of single nucleotide polymorphisms in non-coding genomic regions. With the high-efficiency provided by the multi-task Bayesian framework to integrate information from different sources, MtBNN is capable of extracting features from genomic sequences of large-scale chromatin-profiling data, such as chromatin accessibility and transcript factor binding affinities, and calculating the distribution of the probability that a non-coding variant disrupts regulatory activities. A series of comprehensive experiments show that MtBNN quantifies the functional impact of cis-regulatory variations with high accuracy, including expression quantitative trait locus, DNase I sensitivity quantitative trait locus and functional genetic variants located within ATAC-peaks that affect the accessibility of the corresponding peak and achieves significantly better performance than the existing methods. Moreover, MtBNN has applications in the discovery of potentially causal disease-associated single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), thus helping fine-map the GWAS SNPs. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION Code can be downloaded from https://github.com/Zoesgithub/MtBNN. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
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- Chencheng Xu
- Bioinformatics Division, BNRIST.,Department of Computer Science and Technology
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- Bioinformatics Division, BNRIST.,Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
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- Bioinformatics Division, BNRIST.,Department of Computer Science and Technology
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- College of Information Science and Engineering, Hunan Normal University, Changsha 410081, China
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- Bioinformatics Division, BNRIST.,Department of Computer Science and Technology.,Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521, USA
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Yan F, Powell DR, Curtis DJ, Wong NC. From reads to insight: a hitchhiker's guide to ATAC-seq data analysis. Genome Biol 2020; 21:22. [PMID: 32014034 PMCID: PMC6996192 DOI: 10.1186/s13059-020-1929-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 204] [Impact Index Per Article: 51.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/22/2019] [Accepted: 01/08/2020] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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Assay of Transposase Accessible Chromatin sequencing (ATAC-seq) is widely used in studying chromatin biology, but a comprehensive review of the analysis tools has not been completed yet. Here, we discuss the major steps in ATAC-seq data analysis, including pre-analysis (quality check and alignment), core analysis (peak calling), and advanced analysis (peak differential analysis and annotation, motif enrichment, footprinting, and nucleosome position analysis). We also review the reconstruction of transcriptional regulatory networks with multiomics data and highlight the current challenges of each step. Finally, we describe the potential of single-cell ATAC-seq and highlight the necessity of developing ATAC-seq specific analysis tools to obtain biologically meaningful insights.
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- Feng Yan
- Australian Centre for Blood Diseases, Central Clinical School, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
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- Monash Bioinformatics Platform, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
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- Australian Centre for Blood Diseases, Central Clinical School, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.,Department of Clinical Haematology, Alfred Health, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
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- Australian Centre for Blood Diseases, Central Clinical School, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia. .,Monash Bioinformatics Platform, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
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Guo Y, Zhou D, Nie R, Ruan X, Li W. DeepANF: A deep attentive neural framework with distributed representation for chromatin accessibility prediction. Neurocomputing 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neucom.2019.10.091] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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Niu X, Yang K, Zhang G, Yang Z, Hu X. A Pretraining-Retraining Strategy of Deep Learning Improves Cell-Specific Enhancer Predictions. Front Genet 2020; 10:1305. [PMID: 31969903 PMCID: PMC6960260 DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2019.01305] [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: 06/06/2019] [Accepted: 11/26/2019] [Indexed: 01/22/2023] Open
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Deciphering the code of cis-regulatory element (CRE) is one of the core issues of today’s biology. Enhancers are distal CREs and play significant roles in gene transcriptional regulation. Although identifications of enhancer locations across the whole genome [discriminative enhancer predictions (DEP)] is necessary, it is more important to predict in which specific cell or tissue types, they will be activated and functional [tissue-specific enhancer predictions (TSEP)]. Although existing deep learning models achieved great successes in DEP, they cannot be directly employed in TSEP because a specific cell or tissue type only has a limited number of available enhancer samples for training. Here, we first adopted a reported deep learning architecture and then developed a novel training strategy named “pretraining-retraining strategy” (PRS) for TSEP by decomposing the whole training process into two successive stages: a pretraining stage is designed to train with the whole enhancer data for performing DEP, and a retraining strategy is then designed to train with tissue-specific enhancer samples based on the trained pretraining model for making TSEP. As a result, PRS is found to be valid for DEP with an AUC of 0.922 and a GM (geometric mean) of 0.696, when testing on a larger-scale FANTOM5 enhancer dataset via a five-fold cross-validation. Interestingly, based on the trained pretraining model, a new finding is that only additional twenty epochs are needed to complete the retraining process on testing 23 specific tissues or cell lines. For TSEP tasks, PRS achieved a mean GM of 0.806 which is significantly higher than 0.528 of gkm-SVM, an existing mainstream method for CRE predictions. Notably, PRS is further proven superior to other two state-of-the-art methods: DEEP and BiRen. In summary, PRS has employed useful ideas from the domain of transfer learning and is a reliable method for TSEPs.
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- Xiaohui Niu
- College of Informatics, Hubei Key Laboratory of Agricultural Bioinformatics, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China
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- College of Informatics, Hubei Key Laboratory of Agricultural Bioinformatics, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China
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- College of Informatics, Hubei Key Laboratory of Agricultural Bioinformatics, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China
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- College of Informatics, Hubei Key Laboratory of Agricultural Bioinformatics, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China
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- College of Informatics, Hubei Key Laboratory of Agricultural Bioinformatics, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China
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Henderson J, Ly V, Olichwier S, Chainani P, Liu Y, Soibam B. Accurate prediction of boundaries of high resolution topologically associated domains (TADs) in fruit flies using deep learning. Nucleic Acids Res 2020; 47:e78. [PMID: 31049567 PMCID: PMC6648328 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkz315] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/09/2019] [Revised: 04/02/2019] [Accepted: 04/18/2019] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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Genomes are organized into self-interacting chromatin regions called topologically associated domains (TADs). A significant number of TAD boundaries are shared across multiple cell types and conserved across species. Disruption of TAD boundaries may affect the expression of nearby genes and could lead to several diseases. Even though detection of TAD boundaries is important and useful, there are experimental challenges in obtaining high resolution TAD locations. Here, we present computational prediction of TAD boundaries from high resolution Hi-C data in fruit flies. By extensive exploration and testing of several deep learning model architectures with hyperparameter optimization, we show that a unique deep learning model consisting of three convolution layers followed by a long short-term-memory layer achieves an accuracy of 96%. This outperforms feature-based models’ accuracy of 91% and an existing method's accuracy of 73–78% based on motif TRAP scores. Our method also detects previously reported motifs such as Beaf-32 that are enriched in TAD boundaries in fruit flies and also several unreported motifs.
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- John Henderson
- Computer Science and Engineering Technology, University of Houston-Downtown, Houston, TX 77002, USA
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- Computer Science and Engineering Technology, University of Houston-Downtown, Houston, TX 77002, USA
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- Computer Science and Engineering Technology, University of Houston-Downtown, Houston, TX 77002, USA
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- Computer Science and Engineering Technology, University of Houston-Downtown, Houston, TX 77002, USA
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- Biology and Biochemistry, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204, USA
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- Computer Science and Engineering Technology, University of Houston-Downtown, Houston, TX 77002, USA
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Su X, Xu J, Yin Y, Quan X, Zhang H. Antimicrobial peptide identification using multi-scale convolutional network. BMC Bioinformatics 2019; 20:730. [PMID: 31870282 PMCID: PMC6929291 DOI: 10.1186/s12859-019-3327-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/17/2019] [Accepted: 12/16/2019] [Indexed: 01/14/2023] Open
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Background Antibiotic resistance has become an increasingly serious problem in the past decades. As an alternative choice, antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) have attracted lots of attention. To identify new AMPs, machine learning methods have been commonly used. More recently, some deep learning methods have also been applied to this problem. Results In this paper, we designed a deep learning model to identify AMP sequences. We employed the embedding layer and the multi-scale convolutional network in our model. The multi-scale convolutional network, which contains multiple convolutional layers of varying filter lengths, could utilize all latent features captured by the multiple convolutional layers. To further improve the performance, we also incorporated additional information into the designed model and proposed a fusion model. Results showed that our model outperforms the state-of-the-art models on two AMP datasets and the Antimicrobial Peptide Database (APD)3 benchmark dataset. The fusion model also outperforms the state-of-the-art model on an anti-inflammatory peptides (AIPs) dataset at the accuracy. Conclusions Multi-scale convolutional network is a novel addition to existing deep neural network (DNN) models. The proposed DNN model and the modified fusion model outperform the state-of-the-art models for new AMP discovery. The source code and data are available at https://github.com/zhanglabNKU/APIN.
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- Xin Su
- College of Artificial Intelligence, Nankai University, Tongyan Road, Tianjin, 300350, China
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- College of Computer Science, Nankai University, Tongyan Road, Tianjin, 300350, China
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- Nebraska Food for Health Center, Department of Food Science and Technology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 1400 R Street, Lincoln, NE, 68588, USA
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- College of Artificial Intelligence, Nankai University, Tongyan Road, Tianjin, 300350, China
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- College of Artificial Intelligence, Nankai University, Tongyan Road, Tianjin, 300350, China.
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Song S, Cui H, Chen S, Liu Q, Jiang R. EpiFIT: functional interpretation of transcription factors based on combination of sequence and epigenetic information. QUANTITATIVE BIOLOGY 2019. [DOI: 10.1007/s40484-019-0175-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Yin Q, Wu M, Liu Q, Lv H, Jiang R. DeepHistone: a deep learning approach to predicting histone modifications. BMC Genomics 2019; 20:193. [PMID: 30967126 PMCID: PMC6456942 DOI: 10.1186/s12864-019-5489-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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MOTIVATION Quantitative detection of histone modifications has emerged in the recent years as a major means for understanding such biological processes as chromosome packaging, transcriptional activation, and DNA damage. However, high-throughput experimental techniques such as ChIP-seq are usually expensive and time-consuming, prohibiting the establishment of a histone modification landscape for hundreds of cell types across dozens of histone markers. These disadvantages have been appealing for computational methods to complement experimental approaches towards large-scale analysis of histone modifications. RESULTS We proposed a deep learning framework to integrate sequence information and chromatin accessibility data for the accurate prediction of modification sites specific to different histone markers. Our method, named DeepHistone, outperformed several baseline methods in a series of comprehensive validation experiments, not only within an epigenome but also across epigenomes. Besides, sequence signatures automatically extracted by our method was consistent with known transcription factor binding sites, thereby giving insights into regulatory signatures of histone modifications. As an application, our method was shown to be able to distinguish functional single nucleotide polymorphisms from their nearby genetic variants, thereby having the potential to be used for exploring functional implications of putative disease-associated genetic variants. CONCLUSIONS DeepHistone demonstrated the possibility of using a deep learning framework to integrate DNA sequence and experimental data for predicting epigenomic signals. With the state-of-the-art performance, DeepHistone was expected to shed light on a variety of epigenomic studies. DeepHistone is freely available in https://github.com/QijinYin/DeepHistone .
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- Qijin Yin
- MOE Key Laboratory of Bioinformatics; Bioinformatics Division, Beijing National Laboratory for Information Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China
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- MOE Key Laboratory of Bioinformatics; Bioinformatics Division, Beijing National Laboratory for Information Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China
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- MOE Key Laboratory of Bioinformatics; Bioinformatics Division, Beijing National Laboratory for Information Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China
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- MOE Key Laboratory of Bioinformatics; Bioinformatics Division, Beijing National Laboratory for Information Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China.
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- MOE Key Laboratory of Bioinformatics; Bioinformatics Division, Beijing National Laboratory for Information Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China.
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Zou Q, Xing P, Wei L, Liu B. Gene2vec: gene subsequence embedding for prediction of mammalian N6-methyladenosine sites from mRNA. RNA (NEW YORK, N.Y.) 2019; 25:205-218. [PMID: 30425123 PMCID: PMC6348985 DOI: 10.1261/rna.069112.118] [Citation(s) in RCA: 311] [Impact Index Per Article: 62.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/03/2018] [Accepted: 11/01/2018] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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N6-Methyladenosine (m6A) refers to methylation modification of the adenosine nucleotide acid at the nitrogen-6 position. Many conventional computational methods for identifying N6-methyladenosine sites are limited by the small amount of data available. Taking advantage of the thousands of m6A sites detected by high-throughput sequencing, it is now possible to discover the characteristics of m6A sequences using deep learning techniques. To the best of our knowledge, our work is the first attempt to use word embedding and deep neural networks for m6A prediction from mRNA sequences. Using four deep neural networks, we developed a model inferred from a larger sequence shifting window that can predict m6A accurately and robustly. Four prediction schemes were built with various RNA sequence representations and optimized convolutional neural networks. The soft voting results from the four deep networks were shown to outperform all of the state-of-the-art methods. We evaluated these predictors mentioned above on a rigorous independent test data set and proved that our proposed method outperforms the state-of-the-art predictors. The training, independent, and cross-species testing data sets are much larger than in previous studies, which could help to avoid the problem of overfitting. Furthermore, an online prediction web server implementing the four proposed predictors has been built and is available at http://server.malab.cn/Gene2vec/.
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- Quan Zou
- Institute of Fundamental and Frontier Sciences, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, 610051 Chengdu, China
- School of Computer Science and Technology, Tianjin University, 300350 Tianjin, China
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- School of Computer Science and Technology, Tianjin University, 300350 Tianjin, China
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- School of Computer Science and Technology, Tianjin University, 300350 Tianjin, China
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- School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, 150001 Shenzhen, China
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Xue L, Tang B, Chen W, Luo J. DeepT3: deep convolutional neural networks accurately identify Gram-negative bacterial type III secreted effectors using the N-terminal sequence. Bioinformatics 2018; 35:2051-2057. [DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/bty931] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/26/2018] [Revised: 10/22/2018] [Accepted: 11/07/2018] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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- Li Xue
- School of Public Health, Southwest Medical University, Luzhou, Sichuan, PR, China
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- Basic Medical College of Southwest Medical University, Luzhou, Sichuan, PR, China
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- Integrative Genomics Core, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, CA, USA
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- Key Laboratory for Aging and Regenerative Medicine, Department of Pharmacology, School of Pharmacy, Southwest Medical University, Luzhou, Sichuan, China
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