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ArticleBioinformatics (Oxford, England)2024

Tiberius: end-to-end deep learning with an HMM for gene prediction.

Lars Gabriel, Felix Becker, Katharina J Hoff, Mario Stanke

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Article in Bioinformatics (Oxford, England), 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 29 papers.

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Lars GabrielInstitute of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Greifswald, Greifswald 17489, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-0264-016X
Felix BeckerInstitute of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Greifswald, Greifswald 17489, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-6831-8523
Katharina J HoffInstitute of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Greifswald, Greifswald 17489, Germany.
Mario StankeInstitute of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Greifswald, Greifswald 17489, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-8696-0384

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

motivationFor more than 25 years, learning-based eukaryotic gene predictors were driven by hidden Markov models (HMMs), which were directly inputted a DNA sequence. Recently, Holst et al. demonstrated with their program Helixer that the accuracy of ab initio eukaryotic gene prediction can be improved by combining deep learning layers with a separate HMM postprocessor.

resultsWe present Tiberius, a novel deep learning-based ab initio gene predictor that end-to-end integrates convolutional and long short-term memory layers with a differentiable HMM layer. Tiberius uses a custom gene prediction loss and was trained for prediction in mammalian genomes and evaluated on human and two other genomes. It significantly outperforms existing ab initio methods, achieving F1 scores of 62% at gene level for the human genome, compared to 21% for the next best ab initio method. In de novo mode, Tiberius predicts the exon-intron structure of two out of three human genes without error. Remarkably, even Tiberius's ab initio accuracy matches that of BRAKER3, which uses RNA-seq data and a protein database. Tiberius's highly parallelized model is the fastest state-of-the-art gene prediction method, processing the human genome in under 2 hours. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION: https://github.com/Gaius-Augustus/Tiberius.

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