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ArticleNucleic acids research2015

Computational learning on specificity-determining residue-nucleotide interactions.

Ka-Chun Wong, Yue Li, Chengbin Peng, Alan M Moses, Zhaolei Zhang

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Article in Nucleic acids research, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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13 citing papers in PubMed, 26 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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5 authors at 3 institutions in 4 countries.

Ka-Chun WongDepartment of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong kc.w@cityu.edu.hk.
Yue LiTerrence Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada CSAIL, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139-4307, USA.
Chengbin PengCEMSE Division, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
Alan M MosesDepartment of Cell and Systems Biology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Zhaolei ZhangTerrence Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Banting and Best Department of Medical Research, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada zhaolei.zhang@utoronto.ca.
University of Toronto · CACity University of Hong Kong · HKKing Abdullah University of Science and Technology · SA

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The protein-DNA interactions between transcription factors and transcription factor binding sites are essential activities in gene regulation. To decipher the binding codes, it is a long-standing challenge to understand the binding mechanism across different transcription factor DNA binding families. Past computational learning studies usually focus on learning and predicting the DNA binding residues on protein side. Taking into account both sides (protein and DNA), we propose and describe a computational study for learning the specificity-determining residue-nucleotide interactions of different known DNA-binding domain families. The proposed learning models are compared to state-of-the-art models comprehensively, demonstrating its competitive learning performance. In addition, we describe and propose two applications which demonstrate how the learnt models can provide meaningful insights into protein-DNA interactions across different DNA binding families.

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Binding SitesComputational BiologyDNADNA-Binding ProteinsHumansMachine LearningModels, MolecularNucleotide MotifsPosition-Specific Scoring MatricesProtein BindingProtein Structure, TertiarySequence Analysis, DNASequence Analysis, ProteinDNADNA-Binding Proteins

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PMID26527718
PMCPMC4666365
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