An organism's genome contains many sequence regions that perform diverse functions. Examples of such regions include genes, promoters, enhancers, and binding sites for regulatory proteins and RNAs. One of biology's most important open problems is how...
Interdisciplinary sciences, computational life sciences
35633468
MOTIVATION: Enhancer-Promoter Interactions (EPIs) is an essential step in the gene regulation process. However, the detection of EPIs by traditional wet experimental techniques is time-consuming and expensive. Thus, computational methods would be ver...
The N-methyladenosine (mA) modification is deposited to nascent transcripts on chromatin, but its site-specificity mechanism is mostly unknown. Here we model the mA deposition to pre-mRNA by iM6A (intelligent mA), a deep learning method, demonstratin...
Mathematical biosciences and engineering : MBE
36650801
DNase I hypersensitive sites (DHSs) are a specific genomic region, which is critical to detect or understand cis-regulatory elements. Although there are many methods developed to detect DHSs, there is a big gap in practice. We presented a deep learni...
Massively parallel reporter assay (MPRA) is a high-throughput method that enables the study of the regulatory activities of tens of thousands of DNA oligonucleotides in a single experiment. While MPRA experiments have grown in popularity, their small...
BACKGROUND: Cis-regulatory regions (CRRs) are non-coding regions of the DNA that fine control the spatio-temporal pattern of transcription; they are involved in a wide range of pivotal processes such as the development of specific cell-lines/tissues ...
MOTIVATION: Promoter-centered chromatin interactions, which include promoter-enhancer (PE) and promoter-promoter (PP) interactions, are important to decipher gene regulation and disease mechanisms. The development of next-generation sequencing techno...
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
37023129
Discovering DNA regulatory sequence motifs and their relative positions is vital to understanding the mechanisms of gene expression regulation. Although deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have achieved great success in predicting cis-regulator...
MOTIVATION: The increasing volume of data from high-throughput experiments including parallel reporter assays facilitates the development of complex deep-learning approaches for modeling DNA regulatory grammar.