期刊
BRIEFINGS IN BIOINFORMATICS
卷 24, 期 2, 页码 -出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/bib/bbad095
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DNA function prediction; flow-attention mechanism; convolutional neural network; linear attention mechanism; motif
This study proposed a hybrid deep neural network model called DeepFormer, which is based on convolutional neural network (CNN) and flow-attention mechanism for DNA sequence function prediction. Experimental results showed that DeepFormer significantly outperformed other four methods and demonstrated strong robustness.
Identifying the function of DNA sequences accurately is an essential and challenging task in the genomic field. Until now, deep learning has been widely used in the functional analysis of DNA sequences, including DeepSEA, DanQ, DeepATT and TBiNet. However, these methods have the problems of high computational complexity and not fully considering the distant interactions among chromatin features, thus affecting the prediction accuracy. In this work, we propose a hybrid deep neural network model, called DeepFormer, based on convolutional neural network (CNN) and flow-attention mechanism for DNA sequence function prediction. In DeepFormer, the CNN is used to capture the local features of DNA sequences as well as important motifs. Based on the conservation law of flow network, the flow-attention mechanism can capture more distal interactions among sequence features with linear time complexity. We compare DeepFormer with the above four kinds of classical methods using the commonly used dataset of 919 chromatin features of nearly 4.9 million noncoding DNA sequences. Experimental results show that DeepFormer significantly outperforms four kinds of methods, with an average recall rate at least 7.058% higher than other methods. Furthermore, we confirmed the effectiveness of DeepFormer in capturing functional variation using Alzheimer's disease, pathogenic mutations in alpha-thalassemia and modification in CCCTC-binding factor (CTCF) activity. We further predicted the maize chromatin accessibility of five tissues and validated the generalization of DeepFormer. The average recall rate of DeepFormer exceeds the classical methods by at least 1.54%, demonstrating strong robustness.
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