Biogenesis mechanisms of circular RNA can be categorized through feature extraction of a machine learning model.

Journal: Bioinformatics (Oxford, England)
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Abstract

MOTIVATION: In recent years, multiple circular RNAs (circRNA) biogenesis mechanisms have been discovered. Although each reported mechanism has been experimentally verified in different circRNAs, no single biogenesis mechanism has been proposed that can universally explain the biogenesis of all tens of thousands of discovered circRNAs. Under the hypothesis that human circRNAs can be categorized according to different biogenesis mechanisms, we designed a contextual regression model trained to predict the formation of circular RNA from a random genomic locus on human genome, with potential biogenesis factors of circular RNA as the features of the training data.

Authors

  • Chengyu Liu
    Department of General Surgery, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Peking Union Medical College and Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China.
  • Yu-Chen Liu
    Institute of Engineering in Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA.
  • Hsien-Da Huang
    School of Life and Health Sciences, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China.
  • Wei Wang
    State Key Laboratory of Quality Research in Chinese Medicine, Institute of Chinese Medical Sciences, University of Macau, Macau 999078, China.