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Int J Biol Sci 2018; 14(12):1669-1677. doi:10.7150/ijbs.27819 This issue Cite

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BERMP: a cross-species classifier for predicting m6A sites by integrating a deep learning algorithm and a random forest approach

Yu Huang1,#, Ningning He2,#, Yu Chen1, Zhen Chen2,✉, Lei Li1,2,3,4,✉

1. School of Data Science and Software Engineering, Qingdao University, 266021, Qingdao, China
2. School of Basic Medicine, Qingdao University, 266021, Qingdao, China
3. Cancer institute, the Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University, Qingdao, Shandong, 266061, China
4. Qingdao Cancer Institute, Qingdao, Shandong 266061, China
# Contributed equally.

✉ Corresponding authors: E-mail: leiliedu.cn (Li, L). E-mail: zhenchenedu.cn (Chen, Z).

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Huang Y, He N, Chen Y, Chen Z, Li L. BERMP: a cross-species classifier for predicting m6A sites by integrating a deep learning algorithm and a random forest approach. Int J Biol Sci 2018; 14(12):1669-1677. doi:10.7150/ijbs.27819. https://www.ijbs.com/v14p1669.htm
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N6-methyladenosine (m6A) is a prevalent RNA methylation modification involved in several biological processes. Hundreds or thousands of m6A sites identified from different species using high-throughput experiments provides a rich resource to construct in-silico approaches for identifying m6A sites. The existing m6A predictors are developed using conventional machine-learning (ML) algorithms and most are species-centric. In this paper, we develop a novel cross-species deep-learning classifier based on bidirectional Gated Recurrent Unit (BGRU) for the prediction of m6A sites. In comparison with conventional ML approaches, BGRU achieves outstanding performance for the Mammalia dataset that contains over fifty thousand m6A sites but inferior for the Saccharomyces cerevisiae dataset that covers around a thousand positives. The accuracy of BGRU is sensitive to the data size and the sensitivity is compensated by the integration of a random forest classifier with a novel encoding of enhanced nucleic acid content. The integrated approach dubbed as BGRU-based Ensemble RNA Methylation site Predictor (BERMP) has competitive performance in both cross-validation test and independent test. BERMP also outperforms existing m6A predictors for different species. Therefore, BERMP is a novel multi-species tool for identifying m6A sites with high confidence. This classifier is freely available at http://www.bioinfogo.org/bermp.

Keywords: Deep learning, Recurrent neural network, bidirectional Gated Recurrent Unit, N6-methyladenosine, Random forest

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Huang, Y., He, N., Chen, Y., Chen, Z., Li, L. (2018). BERMP: a cross-species classifier for predicting m6A sites by integrating a deep learning algorithm and a random forest approach. International Journal of Biological Sciences, 14(12), 1669-1677. https://doi.org/10.7150/ijbs.27819.

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Huang, Y.; He, N.; Chen, Y.; Chen, Z.; Li, L. BERMP: a cross-species classifier for predicting m6A sites by integrating a deep learning algorithm and a random forest approach. Int. J. Biol. Sci. 2018, 14 (12), 1669-1677. DOI: 10.7150/ijbs.27819.

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Huang Y, He N, Chen Y, Chen Z, Li L. BERMP: a cross-species classifier for predicting m6A sites by integrating a deep learning algorithm and a random forest approach. Int J Biol Sci 2018; 14(12):1669-1677. doi:10.7150/ijbs.27819. https://www.ijbs.com/v14p1669.htm

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Huang Y, He N, Chen Y, Chen Z, Li L. 2018. BERMP: a cross-species classifier for predicting m6A sites by integrating a deep learning algorithm and a random forest approach. Int J Biol Sci. 14(12):1669-1677.

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