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ArticleNucleic acids research2021

PlantDeepSEA, a deep learning-based web service to predict the regulatory effects of genomic variants in plants.

Hu Zhao, Zhuo Tu, Yinmeng Liu, Zhanxiang Zong, Jiacheng Li, Hao Liu, Feng Xiong, Jinling Zhan, Xuehai Hu, Weibo Xie

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Article in Nucleic acids research, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 27 papers.

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27citing papers in PubMed
2.7field-weighted citation impact, top 9% of its field
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27 citing papers in PubMed, 53 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Hu ZhaoNational Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China.ORCID 0000-0001-5046-6632
Zhuo TuNational Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China.
Yinmeng LiuNational Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China.
Zhanxiang ZongNational Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China.
Jiacheng LiNational Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China.
Hao LiuNational Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China.
Feng XiongNational Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China.
Jinling ZhanNational Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China.
Xuehai HuHubei Key Laboratory of Agricultural Bioinformatics, College of Informatics, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China.ORCID 0000-0001-6731-1602
Weibo XieNational Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China.ORCID 0000-0002-2768-3572
Huazhong Agricultural University · CN

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Characterizing regulatory effects of genomic variants in plants remains a challenge. Although several tools based on deep-learning models and large-scale chromatin-profiling data have been available to predict regulatory elements and variant effects, no dedicated tools or web services have been reported in plants. Here, we present PlantDeepSEA as a deep learning-based web service to predict regulatory effects of genomic variants in multiple tissues of six plant species (including four crops). PlantDeepSEA provides two main functions. One is called Variant Effector, which aims to predict the effects of sequence variants on chromatin accessibility. Another is Sequence Profiler, a utility that performs 'in silico saturated mutagenesis' analysis to discover high-impact sites (e.g., cis-regulatory elements) within a sequence. When validated on independent test sets, the area under receiver operating characteristic curve of deep learning models in PlantDeepSEA ranges from 0.93 to 0.99. We demonstrate the usability of the web service with two examples. PlantDeepSEA could help to prioritize regulatory causal variants and might improve our understanding of their mechanisms of action in different tissues in plants. PlantDeepSEA is available at http://plantdeepsea.ncpgr.cn/.

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Genetic VariationGenome, PlantRegulatory Sequences, Nucleic AcidSoftwareChromatinDeep LearningGenes, PlantGenomicsInternetOryzaPlantsPolymorphism, GeneticQuantitative Trait LociZea maysChromatin

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PMID34037796
PMCPMC8262748
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