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Suleman MT, Alkhalifah T, Alturise F, Khan YD. DHU-Pred: accurate prediction of dihydrouridine sites using position and composition variant features on diverse classifiers. PeerJ 2022; 10:e14104. [PMID: 36320563 PMCID: PMC9618264 DOI: 10.7717/peerj.14104] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/26/2022] [Accepted: 09/01/2022] [Indexed: 01/21/2023] Open
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Background Dihydrouridine (D) is a modified transfer RNA post-transcriptional modification (PTM) that occurs abundantly in bacteria, eukaryotes, and archaea. The D modification assists in the stability and conformational flexibility of tRNA. The D modification is also responsible for pulmonary carcinogenesis in humans. Objective For the detection of D sites, mass spectrometry and site-directed mutagenesis have been developed. However, both are labor-intensive and time-consuming methods. The availability of sequence data has provided the opportunity to build computational models for enhancing the identification of D sites. Based on the sequence data, the DHU-Pred model was proposed in this study to find possible D sites. Methodology The model was built by employing comprehensive machine learning and feature extraction approaches. It was then validated using in-demand evaluation metrics and rigorous experimentation and testing approaches. Results The DHU-Pred revealed an accuracy score of 96.9%, which was considerably higher compared to the existing D site predictors. Availability and Implementation A user-friendly web server for the proposed model was also developed and is freely available for the researchers.
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- Muhammad Taseer Suleman
- Department of Computer Science, School of Systems and Technology, University of Management & Technology, Lahore, Pakistan
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- Department of Computer, College of Science and Arts in Ar Rass Qassim University, Ar Rass, Qassim, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Computer, College of Science and Arts in Ar Rass Qassim University, Ar Rass, Qassim, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Computer Science, School of Systems and Technology, University of Management & Technology, Lahore, Pakistan
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Han GS, Li Q, Li Y. Nucleosome positioning based on DNA sequence embedding and deep learning. BMC Genomics 2022; 23:301. [PMID: 35418074 PMCID: PMC9006412 DOI: 10.1186/s12864-022-08508-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/28/2022] [Accepted: 03/28/2022] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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Background Nucleosome positioning is the precise determination of the location of nucleosomes on DNA sequence. With the continuous advancement of biotechnology and computer technology, biological data is showing explosive growth. It is of practical significance to develop an efficient nucleosome positioning algorithm. Indeed, convolutional neural networks (CNN) can capture local features in DNA sequences, but ignore the order of bases. While the bidirectional recurrent neural network can make up for CNN's shortcomings in this regard and extract the long-term dependent features of DNA sequence. Results In this work, we use word vectors to represent DNA sequences and propose three new deep learning models for nucleosome positioning, and the integrative model NP_CBiR reaches a better prediction performance. The overall accuracies of NP_CBiR on H. sapiens, C. elegans, and D. melanogaster datasets are 86.18%, 89.39%, and 85.55% respectively. Conclusions Benefited by different network structures, NP_CBiR can effectively extract local features and bases order features of DNA sequences, thus can be considered as a complementary tool for nucleosome positioning.
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- Guo-Sheng Han
- Department of Mathematics and Computational Science, Xiangtan University, Xiangtan, 411105, Hunan, China. .,Key Laboratory of Intelligent Computing and Information Processing of Ministry of Education and Hunan Key Laboratory for Computation and Simulation in Science and Engineering, Xiangtan University, Xiangtan, 411105, Hunan, China.
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- Department of Mathematics and Computational Science, Xiangtan University, Xiangtan, 411105, Hunan, China.,Xiangtan Medicine Health Vocational College, Xiangtan, 411102, Hunan, China
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- Department of Mathematics and Computational Science, Xiangtan University, Xiangtan, 411105, Hunan, China.,Key Laboratory of Intelligent Computing and Information Processing of Ministry of Education and Hunan Key Laboratory for Computation and Simulation in Science and Engineering, Xiangtan University, Xiangtan, 411105, Hunan, China
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Lyu Y, Zhang Z, Li J, He W, Ding Y, Guo F. iEnhancer-KL: A Novel Two-Layer Predictor for Identifying Enhancers by Position Specific of Nucleotide Composition. IEEE/ACM Trans Comput Biol Bioinform 2021; 18:2809-2815. [PMID: 33481715 DOI: 10.1109/tcbb.2021.3053608] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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An enhancer is a short region of DNA with the ability to recruit transcription factors and their complexes, increasing the likelihood of the transcription of a particular gene. Considering the importance of enhancers, enhancer identification is a prevailing problem in computational biology. In this paper, we propose a novel two-layer enhancer predictor called iEnhancer-KL, using computational biology algorithms to identify enhancers and then classify these enhancers into strong or weak types. Kullback-Leibler (KL) divergence is creatively taken into consideration to improve the feature extraction method PSTNPss. Then, LASSO is used to reduce the dimension of features and finally helps to get better prediction performance. Furthermore, the selected features are tested on several machine learning models, and the SVM algorithm achieves the best performance. The rigorous cross-validation indicates that our predictor is remarkably superior to the existing state-of-the-art methods with an Acc of 84.23 percent and the MCC of 0.6849 for identifying enhancers. Our code and results can be freely downloaded from https://github.com/Not-so-middle/iEnhancer-KL.git.
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Bahai A, Asgari E, Mofrad MRK, Kloetgen A, McHardy AC. EpitopeVec: Linear Epitope Prediction Using Deep Protein Sequence Embeddings. Bioinformatics 2021; 37:4517-4525. [PMID: 34180989 PMCID: PMC8652027 DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btab467] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/12/2020] [Revised: 05/28/2021] [Accepted: 06/25/2021] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Motivation B-cell epitopes (BCEs) play a pivotal role in the development of peptide vaccines, immuno-diagnostic reagents and antibody production, and thus in infectious disease prevention and diagnostics in general. Experimental methods used to determine BCEs are costly and time-consuming. Therefore, it is essential to develop computational methods for the rapid identification of BCEs. Although several computational methods have been developed for this task, generalizability is still a major concern, where cross-testing of the classifiers trained and tested on different datasets has revealed accuracies of 51–53%. Results We describe a new method called EpitopeVec, which uses a combination of residue properties, modified antigenicity scales, and protein language model-based representations (protein vectors) as features of peptides for linear BCE predictions. Extensive benchmarking of EpitopeVec and other state-of-the-art methods for linear BCE prediction on several large and small datasets, as well as cross-testing, demonstrated an improvement in the performance of EpitopeVec over other methods in terms of accuracy and area under the curve. As the predictive performance depended on the species origin of the respective antigens (viral, bacterial and eukaryotic), we also trained our method on a large viral dataset to create a dedicated linear viral BCE predictor with improved cross-testing performance. Availability and implementation The software is available at https://github.com/hzi-bifo/epitope-prediction. Supplementary information Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
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- Akash Bahai
- Computational Biology of Infection Research, Helmholtz Center for Infection Research, 38124 Braunschweig, Germany.,Braunschweig Integrated Center of Systems Biology (BRICS), Technische Universität Braunschweig, Rebenring 56, 38106 Braunschweig
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- Computational Biology of Infection Research, Helmholtz Center for Infection Research, 38124 Braunschweig, Germany.,Molecular Cell Biomechanics Laboratory, Departments of Bioengineering and Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA
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- Molecular Cell Biomechanics Laboratory, Departments of Bioengineering and Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA.,Molecular Biophysics and Integrated Bioimaging, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- Computational Biology of Infection Research, Helmholtz Center for Infection Research, 38124 Braunschweig, Germany
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- Computational Biology of Infection Research, Helmholtz Center for Infection Research, 38124 Braunschweig, Germany.,Braunschweig Integrated Center of Systems Biology (BRICS), Technische Universität Braunschweig, Rebenring 56, 38106 Braunschweig
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Han GS, Li Q, Li Y. Comparative analysis and prediction of nucleosome positioning using integrative feature representation and machine learning algorithms. BMC Bioinformatics 2021; 22:129. [PMID: 34078256 PMCID: PMC8170966 DOI: 10.1186/s12859-021-04006-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/04/2021] [Accepted: 02/08/2021] [Indexed: 12/01/2022] Open
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Background Nucleosome plays an important role in the process of genome expression, DNA replication, DNA repair and transcription. Therefore, the research of nucleosome positioning has invariably received extensive attention. Considering the diversity of DNA sequence representation methods, we tried to integrate multiple features to analyze its effect in the process of nucleosome positioning analysis. This process can also deepen our understanding of the theoretical analysis of nucleosome positioning. Results Here, we not only used frequency chaos game representation (FCGR) to construct DNA sequence features, but also integrated it with other features and adopted the principal component analysis (PCA) algorithm. Simultaneously, support vector machine (SVM), extreme learning machine (ELM), extreme gradient boosting (XGBoost), multilayer perceptron (MLP) and convolutional neural networks (CNN) are used as predictors for nucleosome positioning prediction analysis, respectively. The integrated feature vector prediction quality is significantly superior to a single feature. After using principal component analysis (PCA) to reduce the feature dimension, the prediction quality of H. sapiens dataset has been significantly improved. Conclusions Comparative analysis and prediction on H. sapiens, C. elegans, D. melanogaster and S. cerevisiae datasets, demonstrate that the application of FCGR to nucleosome positioning is feasible, and we also found that integrative feature representation would be better.
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- Guo-Sheng Han
- Department of Mathematics and Computational Science, Xiangtan University, Xiangtan, 411105, Hunan, China. .,Key Laboratory of Intelligent Computing and Information Processing of Ministry of Education and Hunan Key Laboratory for Computation and Simulation in Science and Engineering, Xiangtan University, Xiangtan, 411105, Hunan, China.
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- Department of Mathematics and Computational Science, Xiangtan University, Xiangtan, 411105, Hunan, China.,Key Laboratory of Intelligent Computing and Information Processing of Ministry of Education and Hunan Key Laboratory for Computation and Simulation in Science and Engineering, Xiangtan University, Xiangtan, 411105, Hunan, China
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- Department of Mathematics and Computational Science, Xiangtan University, Xiangtan, 411105, Hunan, China.,Key Laboratory of Intelligent Computing and Information Processing of Ministry of Education and Hunan Key Laboratory for Computation and Simulation in Science and Engineering, Xiangtan University, Xiangtan, 411105, Hunan, China
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Giancarlo R, Rombo SE, Utro F. In vitro versus in vivo compositional landscapes of histone sequence preferences in eucaryotic genomes. Bioinformatics 2019; 34:3454-3460. [PMID: 30204840 DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/bty799] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/13/2018] [Accepted: 09/08/2018] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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Motivation Although the nucleosome occupancy along a genome can be in part predicted by in vitro experiments, it has been recently observed that the chromatin organization presents important differences in vitro with respect to in vivo. Such differences mainly regard the hierarchical and regular structures of the nucleosome fiber, whose existence has long been assumed, and in part also observed in vitro, but that does not apparently occur in vivo. It is also well known that the DNA sequence has a role in determining the nucleosome occupancy. Therefore, an important issue is to understand if, and to what extent, the structural differences in the chromatin organization between in vitro and in vivo have a counterpart in terms of the underlying genomic sequences. Results We present the first quantitative comparison between the in vitro and in vivo nucleosome maps of two model organisms (S. cerevisiae and C. elegans). The comparison is based on the construction of weighted k-mer dictionaries. Our findings show that there is a good level of sequence conservation between in vitro and in vivo in both the two organisms, in contrast to the abovementioned important differences in chromatin structural organization. Moreover, our results provide evidence that the two organisms predispose themselves differently, in terms of sequence composition and both in vitro and in vivo, for the nucleosome occupancy. This leads to the conclusion that, although the notion of a genome encoding for its own nucleosome occupancy is general, the intrinsic histone k-mer sequence preferences tend to be species-specific. Availability and implementation The files containing the dictionaries and the main results of the analysis are available at http://math.unipa.it/rombo/material. Supplementary information Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
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- Raffaele Giancarlo
- Dipartimento di Matematica ed Informatica, Università degli Studi di Palermo, Palermo, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Matematica ed Informatica, Università degli Studi di Palermo, Palermo, Italy
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- Computational Biology Center, IBM T. J. Watson Research, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA
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Zhang J, Peng W, Wang L. LeNup: learning nucleosome positioning from DNA sequences with improved convolutional neural networks. Bioinformatics 2019; 34:1705-1712. [PMID: 29329398 PMCID: PMC5946947 DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/bty003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/26/2017] [Accepted: 01/09/2018] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Motivation Nucleosome positioning plays significant roles in proper genome packing and its accessibility to execute transcription regulation. Despite a multitude of nucleosome positioning resources available on line including experimental datasets of genome-wide nucleosome occupancy profiles and computational tools to the analysis on these data, the complex language of eukaryotic Nucleosome positioning remains incompletely understood. Results Here, we address this challenge using an approach based on a state-of-the-art machine learning method. We present a novel convolutional neural network (CNN) to understand nucleosome positioning. We combined Inception-like networks with a gating mechanism for the response of multiple patterns and long term association in DNA sequences. We developed the open-source package LeNup based on the CNN to predict nucleosome positioning in Homo sapiens, Caenorhabditis elegans, Drosophila melanogaster as well as Saccharomyces cerevisiae genomes. We trained LeNup on four benchmark datasets. LeNup achieved greater predictive accuracy than previously published methods. Availability and implementation LeNup is freely available as Python and Lua script source code under a BSD style license from https://github.com/biomedBit/LeNup. Supplementary information Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
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- Juhua Zhang
- Department of Biomedical Engineering.,Key Laboratory of Convergence Medical Engineering System and Healthcare Technology of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, School of Life Science, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering
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Asgari E, McHardy AC, Mofrad MRK. Probabilistic variable-length segmentation of protein sequences for discriminative motif discovery (DiMotif) and sequence embedding (ProtVecX). Sci Rep 2019; 9:3577. [PMID: 30837494 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-38746-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/27/2018] [Accepted: 12/19/2018] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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In this paper, we present peptide-pair encoding (PPE), a general-purpose probabilistic segmentation of protein sequences into commonly occurring variable-length sub-sequences. The idea of PPE segmentation is inspired by the byte-pair encoding (BPE) text compression algorithm, which has recently gained popularity in subword neural machine translation. We modify this algorithm by adding a sampling framework allowing for multiple ways of segmenting a sequence. PPE segmentation steps can be learned over a large set of protein sequences (Swiss-Prot) or even a domain-specific dataset and then applied to a set of unseen sequences. This representation can be widely used as the input to any downstream machine learning tasks in protein bioinformatics. In particular, here, we introduce this representation through protein motif discovery and protein sequence embedding. (i) DiMotif: we present DiMotif as an alignment-free discriminative motif discovery method and evaluate the method for finding protein motifs in three different settings: (1) comparison of DiMotif with two existing approaches on 20 distinct motif discovery problems which are experimentally verified, (2) classification-based approach for the motifs extracted for integrins, integrin-binding proteins, and biofilm formation, and (3) in sequence pattern searching for nuclear localization signal. The DiMotif, in general, obtained high recall scores, while having a comparable F1 score with other methods in the discovery of experimentally verified motifs. Having high recall suggests that the DiMotif can be used for short-list creation for further experimental investigations on motifs. In the classification-based evaluation, the extracted motifs could reliably detect the integrins, integrin-binding, and biofilm formation-related proteins on a reserved set of sequences with high F1 scores. (ii) ProtVecX: we extend k-mer based protein vector (ProtVec) embedding to variablelength protein embedding using PPE sub-sequences. We show that the new method of embedding can marginally outperform ProtVec in enzyme prediction as well as toxin prediction tasks. In addition, we conclude that the embeddings are beneficial in protein classification tasks when they are combined with raw amino acids k-mer features.
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Cell reprogramming has played important roles in medical science, such as tissue repair, organ reconstruction, disease treatment, new drug development, and new species breeding. Oct4, a core pluripotency factor, has especially played a key role in somatic cell reprogramming through transcriptional control and affects the expression level of genes by its combination intensity. However, the quantitative relationship between Oct4 combination intensity and target gene expression is still not clear. Therefore, firstly, a generalized linear regression method was constructed to predict gene expression values in promoter regions affected by Oct4 combination intensity. Training data, including Oct4 combination intensity and target gene expression, were from promoter regions of genes with different cell development stages. Additionally, the quantitative relationship between gene expression and Oct4 combination intensity was analyzed with the proposed model. Then, the quantitative relationship between gene expression and Oct4 combination intensity at each stage of cell development was classified into high and low levels. Experimental analysis showed that the combination height of Oct4-inhibited gene expression decremented by a temporal exponential value, whereas the combination width of Oct4-promoted gene expression incremented by a temporal logarithmic value. Experimental results showed that the proposed method can achieve goodness of fit with high confidence.
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- Shuai Liu
- College of Information Science and Engineering, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, China
- College of Computer Science, Inner Mongolia University, Hohhot, China
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- College of Computer Science, Inner Mongolia University, Hohhot, China
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- College of Life Sciences, Inner Mongolia University, Hohhot, China
- The State Key Laboratory of Reproductive Regulation and Breeding of Grassland Livestock, Inner Mongolia University, Hohhot, China
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- College of Life Sciences, Inner Mongolia University, Hohhot, China
- The State Key Laboratory of Reproductive Regulation and Breeding of Grassland Livestock, Inner Mongolia University, Hohhot, China
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Tahir M, Hayat M, Khan SA. iNuc-ext-PseTNC: an efficient ensemble model for identification of nucleosome positioning by extending the concept of Chou's PseAAC to pseudo-tri-nucleotide composition. Mol Genet Genomics 2018; 294:199-210. [PMID: 30291426 DOI: 10.1007/s00438-018-1498-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/30/2018] [Accepted: 09/28/2018] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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Nucleosome is a central element of eukaryotic chromatin, which composes of histone proteins and DNA molecules. It performs vital roles in many eukaryotic intra-nuclear processes, for instance, chromatin structure and transcriptional regulation formation. Identification of nucleosome positioning via wet lab is difficult; so, the attention is diverted towards the accurate intelligent automated prediction. In this regard, a novel intelligent automated model "iNuc-ext-PseTNC" is developed to identify the nucleosome positioning in genomes accurately. In this predictor, the sequences of DNA are mathematically represented by two different discrete feature extraction techniques, namely pseudo-tri-nucleotide composition (PseTNC) and pseudo-di-nucleotide composition. Several contemporary machine learning algorithms were examined. Further, the predictions of individual classifiers were integrated through an evolutionary genetic algorithm. The success rates of the ensemble model are higher than individual classifiers. After analyzing the prediction results, it is noticed that iNuc-ext-PseTNC model has achieved better performance in combination with PseTNC feature space, which are 94.3%, 93.14%, and 88.60% of accuracies using six-fold cross-validation test for the three benchmark datasets S1, S2, and S3, respectively. The achieved outcomes exposed that the results of iNuc-ext-PseTNC model are prominent compared to the existing methods so far notifiable in the literature. It is ascertained that the proposed model might be more fruitful and a practical tool for rudimentary academia and research.
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- Muhammad Tahir
- Department of Computer Science, Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan, Mardan, KP, Pakistan
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- Department of Computer Science, Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan, Mardan, KP, Pakistan.
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- Department of Computer Science, Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan, Mardan, KP, Pakistan
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Jia C, Yang Q, Zou Q. NucPosPred: Predicting species-specific genomic nucleosome positioning via four different modes of general PseKNC. J Theor Biol 2018; 450:15-21. [PMID: 29678692 DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2018.04.025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/26/2018] [Revised: 04/13/2018] [Accepted: 04/16/2018] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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The nucleosome is the basic structure of chromatin in eukaryotic cells, with essential roles in the regulation of many biological processes, such as DNA transcription, replication and repair, and RNA splicing. Because of the importance of nucleosomes, the factors that determine their positioning within genomes should be investigated. High-resolution nucleosome-positioning maps are now available for organisms including Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Drosophila melanogaster and Caenorhabditis elegans, enabling the identification of nucleosome positioning by application of computational tools. Here, we describe a novel predictor called NucPosPred, which was specifically designed for large-scale identification of nucleosome positioning in C. elegans and D. melanogaster genomes. NucPosPred was separately optimized for each species for four types of DNA sequence feature extraction, with consideration of two classification algorithms (gradient-boosting decision tree and support vector machine). The overall accuracy obtained with NucPosPred was 92.29% for C. elegans and 88.26% for D. melanogaster, outperforming previous methods and demonstrating the potential for species-specific prediction of nucleosome positioning. For the convenience of most experimental scientists, a web-server for the predictor NucPosPred is available at http://121.42.167.206/NucPosPred/index.jsp.
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- Cangzhi Jia
- Science of College, Dalian Maritime University, No. 1 Linghai Road, Dalian 116026, China.
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- Science of College, Dalian Maritime University, No. 1 Linghai Road, Dalian 116026, China
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- School of Computer Science and Technology, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China.
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The spectra of k-mer frequencies can reveal the structures and evolution of genome sequences. We confirmed that the trimodal spectrum of 8-mers in human genome sequences is distinguished only by CG2, CG1 and CG0 8-mer sets, containing 2,1 or 0 CpG, respectively. This phenomenon is called independent selection law. The three types of CG 8-mers were considered as different functional elements. We conjectured that (1) nucleosome binding motifs are mainly characterized by CG1 8-mers and (2) the core structural units of CpG island sequences are predominantly characterized by CG2 8-mers. To validate our conjectures, nucleosome occupied sequences and CGI sequences were extracted, then the sequence parameters were constructed through the information of the three CG 8-mer sets respectively. ROC analysis showed that CG1 8-mers are more preference in nucleosome occupied segments (AUC > 0.7) and CG2 8-mers are more preference in CGI sequences (AUC > 0.99). This validates our conjecture in principle.
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- Yun Jia
- Laboratory of Theoretical Biophysics, School of Physical Science and Technology, Inner Mongolia University, Hohhot 010021, China; College of Science, Inner Mongolia University of Technology, Hohhot 010051, China
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- Laboratory of Theoretical Biophysics, School of Physical Science and Technology, Inner Mongolia University, Hohhot 010021, China.
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- College of Science, Inner Mongolia University of Technology, Hohhot 010051, China
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- Laboratory of Theoretical Biophysics, School of Physical Science and Technology, Inner Mongolia University, Hohhot 010021, China
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- Laboratory of Theoretical Biophysics, School of Physical Science and Technology, Inner Mongolia University, Hohhot 010021, China
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胡 世. Prediction of Nucleosome Positioning Sequence for Yeast Genome. Biophysics (Nagoya-shi) 2018. [DOI: 10.12677/biphy.2018.61001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Kameda T, Isami S, Togashi Y, Nishimori H, Sakamoto N, Awazu A. The 1-Particle-per-k-Nucleotides (1PkN) Elastic Network Model of DNA Dynamics with Sequence-Dependent Geometry. Front Physiol 2017; 8:103. [PMID: 28382002 PMCID: PMC5361685 DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2017.00103] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/06/2016] [Accepted: 02/07/2017] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Coarse-grained models of DNA have made important contributions to the determination of the physical properties of genomic DNA, working as a molecular machine for gene regulation. In this study, to analyze the global dynamics of long DNA sequences with consideration of sequence-dependent geometry, we propose elastic network models of DNA where each particle represents k nucleotides (1-particle-per-k-nucleotides, 1PkN). The models were adjusted according to profiles of the anisotropic fluctuations obtained from our previous 1-particle-per-1-nucleotide (1P1N) model, which was proven to reproduce such profiles of all-atom models. We confirmed that the 1P3N and 1P4N models are suitable for the analysis of detailed dynamics such as local twisting motion. The models are intended for the analysis of large structures, e.g., 10-nm fibers in the nucleus, and nucleoids of mitochondrial or phage DNA at low computational costs. As an example, we surveyed the physical characteristics of the whole mitochondrial human and Plasmodium falciparum genomes.
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- Takeru Kameda
- Department of Mathematical and Life Sciences, Hiroshima University Hiroshima, Japan
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- Department of Mathematical and Life Sciences, Hiroshima University Hiroshima, Japan
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- Research Center for the Mathematics on Chromatin Live Dynamics, Hiroshima University Hiroshima, Japan
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- Department of Mathematical and Life Sciences, Hiroshima UniversityHiroshima, Japan; Research Center for the Mathematics on Chromatin Live Dynamics, Hiroshima UniversityHiroshima, Japan
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- Department of Mathematical and Life Sciences, Hiroshima UniversityHiroshima, Japan; Research Center for the Mathematics on Chromatin Live Dynamics, Hiroshima UniversityHiroshima, Japan
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- Department of Mathematical and Life Sciences, Hiroshima UniversityHiroshima, Japan; Research Center for the Mathematics on Chromatin Live Dynamics, Hiroshima UniversityHiroshima, Japan
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