CORENup: a combination of convolutional and recurrent deep neural networks for nucleosome positioning identification.

Journal: BMC bioinformatics
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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Nucleosomes wrap the DNA into the nucleus of the Eukaryote cell and regulate its transcription phase. Several studies indicate that nucleosomes are determined by the combined effects of several factors, including DNA sequence organization. Interestingly, the identification of nucleosomes on a genomic scale has been successfully performed by computational methods using DNA sequence as input data.

Authors

  • Domenico Amato
    Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica, Università degli studi di Palermo, Via Archirafi, 34, Palermo, 90123, Italy.
  • Giosue' Lo Bosco
    Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica, Università degli studi di Palermo, Via Archirafi, 34, Palermo, 90123, Italy. giosue.lobosco@unipa.it.
  • Riccardo Rizzo
    National Research Council of Italy, ICAR-CNR, via Ugo La Malfa 153, Palermo, 90146, Italy.