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Prediction of miRNA targets by learning from interaction sequences

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  • Xueming Zheng
  • Long Chen
  • Xiuming Li
  • Ying Zhang
  • Shungao Xu
  • Xinxiang Huang

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MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are involved in a diverse variety of biological processes through regulating the expression of target genes in the post-transcriptional level. So, it is of great importance to discover the targets of miRNAs in biological research. But, due to the short length of miRNAs and limited sequence complementarity to their gene targets in animals, it is challenging to develop algorithms to predict the targets of miRNA accurately. Here we developed a new miRNA target prediction algorithm using a multilayer convolutional neural network. Our model learned automatically the interaction patterns of the experiment-validated miRNA:target-site chimeras from the raw sequence, avoiding hand-craft selection of features by domain experts. The performance on test dataset is inspiring, indicating great generalization ability of our model. Moreover, considering the stability of miRNA:target-site duplexes, our method also showed good performance to predict the target transcripts of miRNAs.

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  • Xueming Zheng & Long Chen & Xiuming Li & Ying Zhang & Shungao Xu & Xinxiang Huang, 2020. "Prediction of miRNA targets by learning from interaction sequences," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 15(5), pages 1-12, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0232578
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0232578
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