DeepGSR: An optimized deep-learning structure for the recognition of genomic signals and regions

Manal M. Kalkatawi, Arturo Magana-Mora, Boris R. Jankovic, Vladimir B. Bajic

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Abstract

Motivation \nRecognition of different genomic signals and regions (GSRs) in DNA is crucial for understanding genome organization, gene regulation, and gene function, which in turn generate better genome and gene annotations. Although many methods have been developed to recognize GSRs, their pure computational identification remains challenging. Moreover, various GSRs usually require a specialized set of features for developing robust recognition models. Recently, deep-learning (DL) methods have been shown to generate more accurate prediction models than ‘shallow’ methods without the need to develop specialized features for the problems in question. Here, we explore the potential use of DL for the recognition of GSRs. \nResults \nWe developed DeepGSR, an optimized DL architecture for the prediction of different types of GSRs. The performance of the DeepGSR structure is evaluated on the recognition of polyadenylation signals (PAS) and translation initiation sites (TIS) of different organisms: human, mouse, bovine, and fruit fly. The results show that DeepGSR outperformed the state-of-the-art methods, reducing the classification error rate of the PAS and TIS prediction in the human genome by up to 29% and 86%, respectively. Moreover, the cross-organisms and genome-wide analyses we performed, confirmed the robustness of DeepGSR and provided new insights into the conservation of examined GSRs across species.
Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)1125-1132
Number of pages8
JournalBioinformatics
Volume35
Issue number7
DOIs
StatePublished - Sep 1 2018

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