CacPred: a cascaded convolutional neural network for TF-DNA binding prediction.

Journal: BMC genomics
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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Transcription factors (TFs) regulate the genes' expression by binding to DNA sequences. Aligned TFBSs of the same TF are seen as cis-regulatory motifs, and substantial computational efforts have been invested to find motifs. In recent years, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have succeeded in TF-DNA binding prediction, but existing DL methods' accuracy needs to be improved and convolution function in TF-DNA binding prediction should be further explored.

Authors

  • Shuangquan Zhang
    Key Laboratory of Symbolic Computation and Knowledge Engineering, Ministry of Education, College of Computer Science and Technology, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China.
  • Anjun Ma
    Department of Biomedical Informatics, College of Medicine, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA.
  • Xuping Xie
  • Zhichao Lian
  • Yan Wang
    College of Animal Science and Technology, Beijing University of Agriculture, Beijing, China.