6mA-RicePred: A Method for Identifying DNA N6-Methyladenine Sites in the Rice Genome Based on Feature Fusion

MotivationThe biological function of N6-methyladenine DNA (6mA) in plants is largely unknown. Rice is one of the most important crops worldwide and is a model species for molecular and genetic studies. There are few methods for 6mA site recognition in the rice genome, and an effective computational...

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Main Authors: Qianfei Huang, Jun Zhang, Leyi Wei, Fei Guo, Quan Zou
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2020-01-01
Series:Frontiers in Plant Science
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpls.2020.00004/full
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Summary:MotivationThe biological function of N6-methyladenine DNA (6mA) in plants is largely unknown. Rice is one of the most important crops worldwide and is a model species for molecular and genetic studies. There are few methods for 6mA site recognition in the rice genome, and an effective computational method is needed.ResultsIn this paper, we propose a new computational method called 6mA-Pred to identify 6mA sites in the rice genome. 6mA-Pred employs a feature fusion method to combine advantageous features from other methods and thus obtain a new feature to identify 6mA sites. This method achieved an accuracy of 87.27% in the identification of 6mA sites with 10-fold cross-validation and achieved an accuracy of 85.6% in independent test sets.
ISSN:1664-462X