Shaoming Song, Hongfei Cui, Shengquan Chen, Qiao Liu, R. Jiang
{"title":"EpiFIT: functional interpretation of transcription factors based on combination of sequence and epigenetic information","authors":"Shaoming Song, Hongfei Cui, Shengquan Chen, Qiao Liu, R. Jiang","doi":"10.1007/s40484-019-0175-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40484-019-0175-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45660,"journal":{"name":"Quantitative Biology","volume":"7 1","pages":"233 - 243"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2019-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s40484-019-0175-8","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47687422","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Understanding traditional Chinese medicine via statistical learning of expert-specific Electronic Medical Records","authors":"Yang Yang, Qi Li, Zhaoyang Liu, Fang Ye, Ke Deng","doi":"10.1007/s40484-019-0173-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40484-019-0173-x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45660,"journal":{"name":"Quantitative Biology","volume":"7 1","pages":"210 - 232"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2019-08-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s40484-019-0173-x","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45973738","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Identification of candidate disease genes in patients with common variable immunodeficiency","authors":"Guojun Liu, M. Bolkov, I. Tuzankina, I. Danilova","doi":"10.1007/s40484-019-0174-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40484-019-0174-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45660,"journal":{"name":"Quantitative Biology","volume":"7 1","pages":"190 - 201"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2019-07-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s40484-019-0174-9","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46230614","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Shashank Singh, Yang Yang, Barnabás Póczos, Jian Ma
{"title":"Predicting enhancer-promoter interaction from genomic sequence with deep neural networks.","authors":"Shashank Singh, Yang Yang, Barnabás Póczos, Jian Ma","doi":"10.1007/s40484-019-0154-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40484-019-0154-0","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>In the human genome, distal enhancers are involved in regulating target genes through proximal promoters by forming enhancer-promoter interactions. Although recently developed high-throughput experimental approaches have allowed us to recognize potential enhancer-promoter interactions genome-wide, it is still largely unclear to what extent the sequence-level information encoded in our genome help guide such interactions.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Here we report a new computational method (named \"SPEID\") using deep learning models to predict enhancer-promoter interactions based on sequence-based features only, when the locations of putative enhancers and promoters in a particular cell type are given.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Our results across six different cell types demonstrate that SPEID is effective in predicting enhancer-promoter interactions as compared to state-of-the-art methods that only use information from a single cell type. As a proof-of-principle, we also applied SPEID to identify somatic non-coding mutations in melanoma samples that may have reduced enhancer-promoter interactions in tumor genomes.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>This work demonstrates that deep learning models can help reveal that sequence-based features alone are sufficient to reliably predict enhancer-promoter interactions genome-wide.</p>","PeriodicalId":45660,"journal":{"name":"Quantitative Biology","volume":"7 2","pages":"122-137"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2019-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s40484-019-0154-0","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39082600","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}