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PLOS ONE
Volume 15, Issue 5, Pages -Publisher
PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0232578
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- China Postdoctoral Science Foundation [2018M642186]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [31670131]
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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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