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A Novel Position-Specific Encoding Algorithm (SeqPose) of Nucleotide Sequences and Its Application for Detecting Enhancers
Enhancers are short genomic regions exerting tissue-specific regulatory roles, usually for remote coding regions. Enhancers are observed in both prokaryotic and eukaryotic genomes, and their detections facilitate a better understanding of the transcriptional regulation mechanism. The accurate detect...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8002641/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33802922 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms22063079 |
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author | Mu, Xuechen Wang, Yueying Duan, Meiyu Liu, Shuai Li, Fei Wang, Xiuli Zhang, Kai Huang, Lan Zhou, Fengfeng |
author_facet | Mu, Xuechen Wang, Yueying Duan, Meiyu Liu, Shuai Li, Fei Wang, Xiuli Zhang, Kai Huang, Lan Zhou, Fengfeng |
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description | Enhancers are short genomic regions exerting tissue-specific regulatory roles, usually for remote coding regions. Enhancers are observed in both prokaryotic and eukaryotic genomes, and their detections facilitate a better understanding of the transcriptional regulation mechanism. The accurate detection and transcriptional regulation strength evaluation of the enhancers remain a major bioinformatics challenge. Most of the current studies utilized the statistical features of short fixed-length nucleotide sequences. This study introduces the location information of each k-mer (SeqPose) into the encoding strategy of a DNA sequence and employs the attention mechanism in the two-layer bi-directional long-short term memory (BD-LSTM) model (spEnhancer) for the enhancer detection problem. The first layer of the delivered classifier discriminates between enhancers and non-enhancers, and the second layer evaluates the transcriptional regulation strength of the detected enhancer. The SeqPose-encoded features are selected by the Chi-squared test, and 45 positions are removed from further analysis. The existing studies may focus on selecting the statistical DNA sequence descriptors with large contributions to the prediction models. This study does not utilize these statistical DNA sequence descriptors. Then the word vector of the SeqPose-encoded features is obtained by using the word embedding layer. This study hypothesizes that different word vector features may contribute differently to the enhancer detection model, and assigns different weights to these word vectors through the attention mechanism in the BD-LSTM model. The previous study generously provided the training and independent test datasets, and the proposed spEnhancer is compared with the three existing state-of-the-art studies using the same experimental procedure. The leave-one-out validation data on the training dataset shows that the proposed spEnhancer achieves similar detection performances as the three existing studies. While spEnhancer achieves the best overall performance metric MCC for both of the two binary classification problems on the independent test dataset. The experimental data shows that the strategy of removing redundant positions (SeqPose) may help improve the DNA sequence-based prediction models. spEnhancer may serve well as a complementary model to the existing studies, especially for the novel query enhancers that are not included in the training dataset. |
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spelling | pubmed-80026412021-03-28 A Novel Position-Specific Encoding Algorithm (SeqPose) of Nucleotide Sequences and Its Application for Detecting Enhancers Mu, Xuechen Wang, Yueying Duan, Meiyu Liu, Shuai Li, Fei Wang, Xiuli Zhang, Kai Huang, Lan Zhou, Fengfeng Int J Mol Sci Article Enhancers are short genomic regions exerting tissue-specific regulatory roles, usually for remote coding regions. Enhancers are observed in both prokaryotic and eukaryotic genomes, and their detections facilitate a better understanding of the transcriptional regulation mechanism. The accurate detection and transcriptional regulation strength evaluation of the enhancers remain a major bioinformatics challenge. Most of the current studies utilized the statistical features of short fixed-length nucleotide sequences. This study introduces the location information of each k-mer (SeqPose) into the encoding strategy of a DNA sequence and employs the attention mechanism in the two-layer bi-directional long-short term memory (BD-LSTM) model (spEnhancer) for the enhancer detection problem. The first layer of the delivered classifier discriminates between enhancers and non-enhancers, and the second layer evaluates the transcriptional regulation strength of the detected enhancer. The SeqPose-encoded features are selected by the Chi-squared test, and 45 positions are removed from further analysis. The existing studies may focus on selecting the statistical DNA sequence descriptors with large contributions to the prediction models. This study does not utilize these statistical DNA sequence descriptors. Then the word vector of the SeqPose-encoded features is obtained by using the word embedding layer. This study hypothesizes that different word vector features may contribute differently to the enhancer detection model, and assigns different weights to these word vectors through the attention mechanism in the BD-LSTM model. The previous study generously provided the training and independent test datasets, and the proposed spEnhancer is compared with the three existing state-of-the-art studies using the same experimental procedure. The leave-one-out validation data on the training dataset shows that the proposed spEnhancer achieves similar detection performances as the three existing studies. While spEnhancer achieves the best overall performance metric MCC for both of the two binary classification problems on the independent test dataset. The experimental data shows that the strategy of removing redundant positions (SeqPose) may help improve the DNA sequence-based prediction models. spEnhancer may serve well as a complementary model to the existing studies, especially for the novel query enhancers that are not included in the training dataset. MDPI 2021-03-17 /pmc/articles/PMC8002641/ /pubmed/33802922 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms22063079 Text en © 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Mu, Xuechen Wang, Yueying Duan, Meiyu Liu, Shuai Li, Fei Wang, Xiuli Zhang, Kai Huang, Lan Zhou, Fengfeng A Novel Position-Specific Encoding Algorithm (SeqPose) of Nucleotide Sequences and Its Application for Detecting Enhancers |
title | A Novel Position-Specific Encoding Algorithm (SeqPose) of Nucleotide Sequences and Its Application for Detecting Enhancers |
title_full | A Novel Position-Specific Encoding Algorithm (SeqPose) of Nucleotide Sequences and Its Application for Detecting Enhancers |
title_fullStr | A Novel Position-Specific Encoding Algorithm (SeqPose) of Nucleotide Sequences and Its Application for Detecting Enhancers |
title_full_unstemmed | A Novel Position-Specific Encoding Algorithm (SeqPose) of Nucleotide Sequences and Its Application for Detecting Enhancers |
title_short | A Novel Position-Specific Encoding Algorithm (SeqPose) of Nucleotide Sequences and Its Application for Detecting Enhancers |
title_sort | novel position-specific encoding algorithm (seqpose) of nucleotide sequences and its application for detecting enhancers |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8002641/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33802922 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms22063079 |
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