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. 2020 Jun;17(6):892-902.
doi: 10.1080/15476286.2020.1734382. Epub 2020 Mar 5.

2lpiRNApred: a two-layered integrated algorithm for identifying piRNAs and their functions based on LFE-GM feature selection

Yun Zuo  1 , Quan Zou  2 , Jianyuan Lin  1 , Min Jiang  3 , Xiangrong Liu  1
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2lpiRNApred: a two-layered integrated algorithm for identifying piRNAs and their functions based on LFE-GM feature selection

Yun Zuo et al. RNA Biol. 2020 Jun.

Abstract

Piwi-interacting RNAs (piRNAs) are indispensable in the transposon silencing, including in germ cell formation, germline stem cell maintenance, spermatogenesis, and oogenesis. piRNA pathways are amongst the major genome defence mechanisms, which maintain genome integrity. They also have important functions in tumorigenesis, as indicated by aberrantly expressed piRNAs being recently shown to play roles in the process of cancer development. A number of computational methods for this have recently been proposed, but they still have not yielded satisfactory predictive performance. Moreover, only one computational method that identifies whether piRNAs function in inducting target mRNA deadenylation been reported in the literature. In this study, we developed a two-layered integrated classifier algorithm, 2lpiRNApred. It identifies piRNAs in the first layer and determines whether they function in inducting target mRNA deadenylation in the second layer. A new feature selection algorithm, which was based on Luca fuzzy entropy and Gaussian membership function (LFE-GM), was proposed to reduce the dimensionality of the features. Five feature extraction strategies, namely, Kmer, General parallel correlation pseudo-dinucleotide composition, General series correlation pseudo-dinucleotide composition, Normalized Moreau-Broto autocorrelation, and Geary autocorrelation, and two types of classifier, Sparse Representation Classifier (SRC) and support vector machine with Mahalanobis distance-based radial basis function (SVMMDRBF), were used to construct a two-layered integrated classifier algorithm, 2lpiRNApred. The results indicate that 2lpiRNApred performs significantly better than six other existing prediction tools.

Keywords: a two-layered integrated classifier algorithm; feature extraction strategies; feature selection; piRNAs; target mRNA deadenylation.

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Conceptual framework of 2lpiRNApred.
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The prediction performance of each sub-classifier using proposed LFE-GM feature selection algorithm by five-fold cross-validation in layer I and II.
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