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ArticleBMC bioinformatics2022

Nonlinear physics opens a new paradigm for accurate transcription start site prediction.

José Antonio Barbero-Aparicio, Santiago Cuesta-Lopez, César Ignacio García-Osorio, Javier Pérez-Rodríguez, Nicolás García-Pedrajas

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Article in BMC bioinformatics, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

José Antonio Barbero-AparicioDepartamento de Informática, Universidad de Burgos, Avda. de Cantabria s/n, 09006, Burgos, Spain.
Santiago Cuesta-LopezUniversidad de Burgos, Hospital del Rey, s/n, 09001, Burgos, Spain.
César Ignacio García-OsorioDepartamento de Informática, Universidad de Burgos, Avda. de Cantabria s/n, 09006, Burgos, Spain. cgosorio@ubu.es.
Javier Pérez-RodríguezDepartamento de Métodos Cuantitativos, Universidad de Loyola Andalucía, Escritor Castilla Aguayo, 4, 14004, Córdoba, Spain.
Nicolás García-PedrajasDepartment of Computing and Numerical Analysis, University of Córdoba, Edificio Albert Einstein, Campus de Rabanales, 14071, Córdoba, Spain.
Universidad de Burgos · ESUniversidad Loyola Andalucía · ESUniversity of Córdoba · ES

Funding

Junta de Andalucía UCO-1264182Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades PID2019-109481GB-I00/AEI/q10.13039/501100011033
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

There is evidence that DNA breathing (spontaneous opening of the DNA strands) plays a relevant role in the interactions of DNA with other molecules, and in particular in the transcription process. Therefore, having physical models that can predict these openings is of interest. However, this source of information has not been used before either in transcription start sites (TSSs) or promoter prediction. In this article, one such model is used as an additional information source that, when used by a machine learning (ML) model, improves the results of current methods for the prediction of TSSs. In addition, we provide evidence on the validity of the physical model, as it is able by itself to predict TSSs with high accuracy. This opens an exciting avenue of research at the intersection of statistical mechanics and ML, where ML models in bioinformatics can be improved using physical models of DNA as feature extractors.

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Computational BiologyDNAPromoter Regions, GeneticTranscription Initiation SiteDNADNA breathingDNA modellingMachine LearningString kernelsSVMTSS prediction

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PMID36585618
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