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ArticleInterdisciplinary sciences, computational life sciences2025

RAEPI: Predicting Enhancer-Promoter Interactions Based on Restricted Attention Mechanism.

Wanjing Zhang, Mingyang Zhang, Min Zhu

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  1. EPIFBMC: A New Model for Enhancer-Promoter Interaction Prediction.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025
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Wanjing ZhangCollege of Computer Science, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610065, China.
Mingyang ZhangCollege of Computer Science, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610065, China.
Min ZhuCollege of Computer Science, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610065, China. zhumin@scu.edu.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5664-1558

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Abstract

Enhancer-promoter interactions (EPIs) are crucial in gene transcription regulation and cell differentiation. Traditional biological experiments are costly and time-consuming, motivating the development of computational prediction methods. However, existing EPI prediction methods inadequately capture the intricate direct interactions between enhancer and promoter sequences, which limits their prediction performance to some extent. In this work, we propose an innovative attention-based approach RAEPI, which uses convolutional neural networks to extract initial features of enhancers and promoters, combined with a specially designed Restricted Attention mechanism with Query-Key-Value constrained to simulate the interactions between them for further feature extraction. To improve cross-cell line prediction, we employ a transfer learning strategy for pre-training. Furthermore, we extracted sequence motifs to evaluate the RAEPI's effectiveness from a visualization perspective. Experimental results show that RAEPI achieves competitive prediction performance to existing methods on the benchmark dataset.

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Computational BiologyEnhancer Elements, GeneticNeural Networks, ComputerPromoter Regions, GeneticHumansAttention mechanismDNA sequenceEnhancer-promoter interactionTransfer learning

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