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The folded k-spectrum kernel: A machine learning approach to detecting transcription factor binding sites with gapped nucleotide dependencies

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Τίτλος: The folded k-spectrum kernel: A machine learning approach to detecting transcription factor binding sites with gapped nucleotide dependencies
Συγγραφείς: Elmas, Abdulkadir, Wang, Xiaodong, Dresch, Jacqueline M.
Έτος έκδοσης: 2017
Συλλογή: Columbia University: Academic Commons
Θεματικοί όροι: Machine learning, Nucleotide sequence--Data processing, Electrical engineering, Computer science
Περιγραφή: Understanding the molecular machinery involved in transcriptional regulation is central to improving our knowledge of an organism’s development, disease, and evolution. The building blocks of this complex molecular machinery are an organism’s genomic DNA sequence and transcription factor proteins. Despite the vast amount of sequence data now available for many model organisms, predicting where transcription factors bind, often referred to as ‘motif detection’ is still incredibly challenging. In this study, we develop a novel bioinformatic approach to binding site prediction. We do this by extending pre-existing SVM approaches in an unbiased way to include all possible gapped k-mers, representing different combinations of complex nucleotide dependencies within binding sites. We show the advantages of this new approach when compared to existing SVM approaches, through a rigorous set of cross-validation experiments. We also demonstrate the effectiveness of our new approach by reporting on its improved performance on a set of 127 genomic regions known to regulate gene expression along the anterio-posterior axis in early Drosophila embryos.
Τύπος εγγράφου: article in journal/newspaper
Γλώσσα: English
Relation: https://doi.org/10.7916/D8K65WHR
DOI: 10.7916/D8K65WHR
Διαθεσιμότητα: https://doi.org/10.7916/D8K65WHR
Αριθμός Καταχώρησης: edsbas.31910461
Βάση Δεδομένων: BASE