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ArticleComputational and mathematical methods in medicine2021

BERT-m7G: A Transformer Architecture Based on BERT and Stacking Ensemble to Identify RNA N7-Methylguanosine Sites from Sequence Information.

Lu Zhang, Xinyi Qin, Min Liu, Guangzhong Liu, Yuxiao Ren

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Article in Computational and mathematical methods in medicine, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers.

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Lu ZhangCollege of Information Engineering, Shanghai Maritime University, 1550 Haigang Ave., Shanghai 201306, China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0765-9284
Xinyi QinCollege of Information Engineering, Shanghai Maritime University, 1550 Haigang Ave., Shanghai 201306, China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2384-2238
Min LiuCollege of Information Engineering, Shanghai Maritime University, 1550 Haigang Ave., Shanghai 201306, China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4952-2577
Guangzhong LiuCollege of Information Engineering, Shanghai Maritime University, 1550 Haigang Ave., Shanghai 201306, China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2709-6204
Yuxiao RenSchool of Computer Science and Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing 214135, China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7169-6867
Shanghai Maritime University · CNSoutheast University · CN

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

As one of the most prevalent posttranscriptional modifications of RNA, N7-methylguanosine (m7G) plays an essential role in the regulation of gene expression. Accurate identification of m7G sites in the transcriptome is invaluable for better revealing their potential functional mechanisms. Although high-throughput experimental methods can locate m7G sites precisely, they are overpriced and time-consuming. Hence, it is imperative to design an efficient computational method that can accurately identify the m7G sites. In this study, we propose a novel method via incorporating BERT-based multilingual model in bioinformatics to represent the information of RNA sequences. Firstly, we treat RNA sequences as natural sentences and then employ bidirectional encoder representations from transformers (BERT) model to transform them into fixed-length numerical matrices. Secondly, a feature selection scheme based on the elastic net method is constructed to eliminate redundant features and retain important features. Finally, the selected feature subset is input into a stacking ensemble classifier to predict m7G sites, and the hyperparameters of the classifier are tuned with tree-structured Parzen estimator (TPE) approach. By 10-fold cross-validation, the performance of BERT-m7G is measured with an ACC of 95.48% and an MCC of 0.9100. The experimental results indicate that the proposed method significantly outperforms state-of-the-art prediction methods in the identification of m7G modifications.

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AlgorithmsBase SequenceBinding SitesComputational BiologyDatabases, Nucleic AcidDeep LearningGuanosineHumansLinear ModelsRNA Processing, Post-Transcriptional7-methylguanosineGuanosine

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PMID34484416
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