CircSSNN: circRNA-binding site prediction via sequence self-attention neural networks with pre-normalization.

Journal: BMC bioinformatics
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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Circular RNAs (circRNAs) play a significant role in some diseases by acting as transcription templates. Therefore, analyzing the interaction mechanism between circRNA and RNA-binding proteins (RBPs) has far-reaching implications for the prevention and treatment of diseases. Existing models for circRNA-RBP identification usually adopt convolution neural network (CNN), recurrent neural network (RNN), or their variants as feature extractors. Most of them have drawbacks such as poor parallelism, insufficient stability, and inability to capture long-term dependencies.

Authors

  • Chao Cao
    Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, United States.
  • Shuhong Yang
    Key Laboratory of Guangxi Universities on Intelligent Computing and Distributed Information Processing, Guangxi University of Science and Technology, Liuzhou, China. ysh@hzu.edu.cn.
  • Mengli Li
    School of Technology, Guilin University, Guilin, China.
  • Chungui Li
    School of Computer Science and Technology, Guangxi University of Science and Technology, Liuzhou, China. liza4323@163.com.