Improved H3K27ac Histone Mark Prediction using K-mer Proximity Feature

Prediction of gene regulatory elements-enhancers is computationally challenging because features associated with them are ill-understood. Several histone marks are known to be associated with enhancers locations and have been successfully used to predict multiple thousands of enhancers approximate l...

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Main Authors: Fong, Pui Kwan, Lee, Nung Kion
Format: Proceeding
Language:English
Published: IEEE 2015
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description Prediction of gene regulatory elements-enhancers is computationally challenging because features associated with them are ill-understood. Several histone marks are known to be associated with enhancers locations and have been successfully used to predict multiple thousands of enhancers approximate locations. The k-mer (a short continuous nucleotides of length k) is one of the most commonly engineered features from histone sequences for machine learning task. However, usually large kmer (i.e. 5 ≤ k ≤ 7) feature set is needed to perform well and no domain knowledge is used. In this study we proposed the kmer proximity feature which is domain dependent to represent the H3K27ac histone enrichment in DNA sequences. This feature represents the spatial content of DNA sequences. We compare the performances of using the proximity and the k-mer feature for H3K27ac marks prediction and results indicate that the proposed feature gives higher prediction accuracy rates. These findings supported that the proximity feature is a more distinguishing feature of DNA sequences with histone modification enrichment.
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spelling unimas-119362017-02-14T06:03:47Z http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/11936/ Improved H3K27ac Histone Mark Prediction using K-mer Proximity Feature Fong, Pui Kwan Lee, Nung Kion QA Mathematics T Technology (General) Prediction of gene regulatory elements-enhancers is computationally challenging because features associated with them are ill-understood. Several histone marks are known to be associated with enhancers locations and have been successfully used to predict multiple thousands of enhancers approximate locations. The k-mer (a short continuous nucleotides of length k) is one of the most commonly engineered features from histone sequences for machine learning task. However, usually large kmer (i.e. 5 ≤ k ≤ 7) feature set is needed to perform well and no domain knowledge is used. In this study we proposed the kmer proximity feature which is domain dependent to represent the H3K27ac histone enrichment in DNA sequences. This feature represents the spatial content of DNA sequences. We compare the performances of using the proximity and the k-mer feature for H3K27ac marks prediction and results indicate that the proposed feature gives higher prediction accuracy rates. These findings supported that the proximity feature is a more distinguishing feature of DNA sequences with histone modification enrichment. IEEE 2015 Proceeding NonPeerReviewed text en http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/11936/1/Improved%20H3K27ac_abstract.pdf Fong, Pui Kwan and Lee, Nung Kion (2015) Improved H3K27ac Histone Mark Prediction using K-mer Proximity Feature. In: IT in Asia (CITA), 2015 9th International Conference on, 4-5 Aug. 2015, Kota Samarahan. http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=7349830 10.1109/CITA.2015.7349830
spellingShingle QA Mathematics
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Fong, Pui Kwan
Lee, Nung Kion
Improved H3K27ac Histone Mark Prediction using K-mer Proximity Feature
title Improved H3K27ac Histone Mark Prediction using K-mer Proximity Feature
title_full Improved H3K27ac Histone Mark Prediction using K-mer Proximity Feature
title_fullStr Improved H3K27ac Histone Mark Prediction using K-mer Proximity Feature
title_full_unstemmed Improved H3K27ac Histone Mark Prediction using K-mer Proximity Feature
title_short Improved H3K27ac Histone Mark Prediction using K-mer Proximity Feature
title_sort improved h3k27ac histone mark prediction using k-mer proximity feature
topic QA Mathematics
T Technology (General)
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http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/11936/1/Improved%20H3K27ac_abstract.pdf