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ArticlePloS one2017

On the prediction of DNA-binding proteins only from primary sequences: A deep learning approach.

Yu-Hui Qu, Hua Yu, Xiu-Jun Gong, Jia-Hui Xu, Hong-Shun Lee

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5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Yu-Hui QuSchool of Computer Science and Technology, Tianjin University, Nankai, Tianjin, China, 30072.
Hua YuSchool of Computer Science and Technology, Tianjin University, Nankai, Tianjin, China, 30072.
Xiu-Jun GongSchool of Computer Science and Technology, Tianjin University, Nankai, Tianjin, China, 30072.ORCID 0000-0001-9591-2237
Jia-Hui XuBeijing KEDONG Electric Power Control System Co. LTD, Qinghe, Beijing, China, 100192.
Hong-Shun LeeSchool of Computer Science and Technology, Tianjin University, Nankai, Tianjin, China, 30072.
Tianjin University · CN

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Abstract

DNA-binding proteins play pivotal roles in alternative splicing, RNA editing, methylating and many other biological functions for both eukaryotic and prokaryotic proteomes. Predicting the functions of these proteins from primary amino acids sequences is becoming one of the major challenges in functional annotations of genomes. Traditional prediction methods often devote themselves to extracting physiochemical features from sequences but ignoring motif information and location information between motifs. Meanwhile, the small scale of data volumes and large noises in training data result in lower accuracy and reliability of predictions. In this paper, we propose a deep learning based method to identify DNA-binding proteins from primary sequences alone. It utilizes two stages of convolutional neutral network to detect the function domains of protein sequences, and the long short-term memory neural network to identify their long term dependencies, an binary cross entropy to evaluate the quality of the neural networks. When the proposed method is tested with a realistic DNA binding protein dataset, it achieves a prediction accuracy of 94.2% at the Matthew's correlation coefficient of 0.961. Compared with the LibSVM on the arabidopsis and yeast datasets via independent tests, the accuracy raises by 9% and 4% respectively. Comparative experiments using different feature extraction methods show that our model performs similar accuracy with the best of others, but its values of sensitivity, specificity and AUC increase by 27.83%, 1.31% and 16.21% respectively. Those results suggest that our method is a promising tool for identifying DNA-binding proteins.

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Amino Acid SequenceArabidopsisDNA-Binding ProteinsModels, TheoreticalReproducibility of ResultsYeastsDNA-Binding Proteins

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