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Dense neural networks for predicting chromatin conformation
BACKGROUND: DNA inside eukaryotic cells wraps around histones to form the 11nm chromatin fiber that can further fold into higher-order DNA loops, which may depend on the binding of architectural factors. Predicting how the DNA will fold given a distribution of bound factors, here viewed as a type of...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6186068/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30314429 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12859-018-2286-z |
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author | Farré, Pau Heurteau, Alexandre Cuvier, Olivier Emberly, Eldon |
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description | BACKGROUND: DNA inside eukaryotic cells wraps around histones to form the 11nm chromatin fiber that can further fold into higher-order DNA loops, which may depend on the binding of architectural factors. Predicting how the DNA will fold given a distribution of bound factors, here viewed as a type of sequence, is currently an unsolved problem and several heterogeneous polymer models have shown that many features of the measured structure can be reproduced from simulations. However a model that determines the optimal connection between sequence and structure and that can rapidly assess the effects of varying either one is still lacking. RESULTS: Here we train a dense neural network to solve for the local folding of chromatin, connecting structure, represented as a contact map, to a sequence of bound chromatin factors. The network includes a convolutional filter that compresses the large number of bound chromatin factors into a single 1D sequence representation that is optimized for predicting structure. We also train a network to solve the inverse problem, namely given only structural information in the form of a contact map, predict the likely sequence of chromatin states that generated it. CONCLUSIONS: By carrying out sensitivity analysis on both networks, we are able to highlight the importance of chromatin contexts and neighborhoods for regulating long-range contacts, along with critical alterations that affect contact formation. Our analysis shows that the networks have learned physical insights that are informative and intuitive about this complex polymer problem. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (10.1186/s12859-018-2286-z) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. |
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spelling | pubmed-61860682018-10-19 Dense neural networks for predicting chromatin conformation Farré, Pau Heurteau, Alexandre Cuvier, Olivier Emberly, Eldon BMC Bioinformatics Research Article BACKGROUND: DNA inside eukaryotic cells wraps around histones to form the 11nm chromatin fiber that can further fold into higher-order DNA loops, which may depend on the binding of architectural factors. Predicting how the DNA will fold given a distribution of bound factors, here viewed as a type of sequence, is currently an unsolved problem and several heterogeneous polymer models have shown that many features of the measured structure can be reproduced from simulations. However a model that determines the optimal connection between sequence and structure and that can rapidly assess the effects of varying either one is still lacking. RESULTS: Here we train a dense neural network to solve for the local folding of chromatin, connecting structure, represented as a contact map, to a sequence of bound chromatin factors. The network includes a convolutional filter that compresses the large number of bound chromatin factors into a single 1D sequence representation that is optimized for predicting structure. We also train a network to solve the inverse problem, namely given only structural information in the form of a contact map, predict the likely sequence of chromatin states that generated it. CONCLUSIONS: By carrying out sensitivity analysis on both networks, we are able to highlight the importance of chromatin contexts and neighborhoods for regulating long-range contacts, along with critical alterations that affect contact formation. Our analysis shows that the networks have learned physical insights that are informative and intuitive about this complex polymer problem. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (10.1186/s12859-018-2286-z) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. BioMed Central 2018-10-11 /pmc/articles/PMC6186068/ /pubmed/30314429 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12859-018-2286-z Text en © The Author(s) 2018 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Farré, Pau Heurteau, Alexandre Cuvier, Olivier Emberly, Eldon Dense neural networks for predicting chromatin conformation |
title | Dense neural networks for predicting chromatin conformation |
title_full | Dense neural networks for predicting chromatin conformation |
title_fullStr | Dense neural networks for predicting chromatin conformation |
title_full_unstemmed | Dense neural networks for predicting chromatin conformation |
title_short | Dense neural networks for predicting chromatin conformation |
title_sort | dense neural networks for predicting chromatin conformation |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6186068/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30314429 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12859-018-2286-z |
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