DeepPN: a deep parallel neural network based on convolutional neural network and graph convolutional network for predicting RNA-protein binding sites.

Journal: BMC bioinformatics
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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Addressing the laborious nature of traditional biological experiments by using an efficient computational approach to analyze RNA-binding proteins (RBPs) binding sites has always been a challenging task. RBPs play a vital role in post-transcriptional control. Identification of RBPs binding sites is a key step for the anatomy of the essential mechanism of gene regulation by controlling splicing, stability, localization and translation. Traditional methods for detecting RBPs binding sites are time-consuming and computationally-intensive. Recently, the computational method has been incorporated in researches of RBPs. Nevertheless, lots of them not only rely on the sequence data of RNA but also need additional data, for example the secondary structural data of RNA, to improve the performance of prediction, which needs the pre-work to prepare the learnable representation of structural data.

Authors

  • Jidong Zhang
    Department of Immunology, Zunyi Medical College, Zunyi, 563000, China.
  • Bo Liu
    Wuhan United Imaging Healthcare Surgical Technology Co., Ltd., Wuhan, China.
  • Zhihan Wang
    Faculty of Information Technology, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing, 100124, China.
  • Klaus Lehnert
    School of Biological Sciences, University of Auckland, Auckland, 1142, New Zealand.
  • Mark Gahegan
    Centre for e-Research, The University of Auckland, Auckland 1010, New Zealand.