Enhancer prediction in the human genome by probabilistic modelling of the chromatin feature patterns
Abstract Background The binding sites of transcription factors (TFs) and the localisation of histone modifications in the human genome can be quantified by the chromatin immunoprecipitation assay coupled with next-generation sequencing (ChIP-seq). The resulting chromatin feature data has been succes...
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| description | Abstract Background The binding sites of transcription factors (TFs) and the localisation of histone modifications in the human genome can be quantified by the chromatin immunoprecipitation assay coupled with next-generation sequencing (ChIP-seq). The resulting chromatin feature data has been successfully adopted for genome-wide enhancer identification by several unsupervised and supervised machine learning methods. However, the current methods predict different numbers and different sets of enhancers for the same cell type and do not utilise the pattern of the ChIP-seq coverage profiles efficiently. Results In this work, we propose a PRobabilistic Enhancer PRedictIoN Tool (PREPRINT) that assumes characteristic coverage patterns of chromatin features at enhancers and employs a statistical model to account for their variability. PREPRINT defines probabilistic distance measures to quantify the similarity of the genomic query regions and the characteristic coverage patterns. The probabilistic scores of the enhancer and non-enhancer samples are utilised to train a kernel-based classifier. The performance of the method is demonstrated on ENCODE data for two cell lines. The predicted enhancers are computationally validated based on the transcriptional regulatory protein binding sites and compared to the predictions obtained by state-of-the-art methods. Conclusion PREPRINT performs favorably to the state-of-the-art methods, especially when requiring the methods to predict a larger set of enhancers. PREPRINT generalises successfully to data from cell type not utilised for training, and often the PREPRINT performs better than the previous methods. The PREPRINT enhancers are less sensitive to the choice of prediction threshold. PREPRINT identifies biologically validated enhancers not predicted by the competing methods. The enhancers predicted by PREPRINT can aid the genome interpretation in functional genomics and clinical studies. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-945feed892c642629ee4a16ab62769572022-12-22T01:16:48ZengBMCBMC Bioinformatics1471-21052020-07-0121113710.1186/s12859-020-03621-3Enhancer prediction in the human genome by probabilistic modelling of the chromatin feature patternsMaria Osmala0Harri Lähdesmäki1Department of Computer Science, Aalto UniversityDepartment of Computer Science, Aalto UniversityAbstract Background The binding sites of transcription factors (TFs) and the localisation of histone modifications in the human genome can be quantified by the chromatin immunoprecipitation assay coupled with next-generation sequencing (ChIP-seq). The resulting chromatin feature data has been successfully adopted for genome-wide enhancer identification by several unsupervised and supervised machine learning methods. However, the current methods predict different numbers and different sets of enhancers for the same cell type and do not utilise the pattern of the ChIP-seq coverage profiles efficiently. Results In this work, we propose a PRobabilistic Enhancer PRedictIoN Tool (PREPRINT) that assumes characteristic coverage patterns of chromatin features at enhancers and employs a statistical model to account for their variability. PREPRINT defines probabilistic distance measures to quantify the similarity of the genomic query regions and the characteristic coverage patterns. The probabilistic scores of the enhancer and non-enhancer samples are utilised to train a kernel-based classifier. The performance of the method is demonstrated on ENCODE data for two cell lines. The predicted enhancers are computationally validated based on the transcriptional regulatory protein binding sites and compared to the predictions obtained by state-of-the-art methods. Conclusion PREPRINT performs favorably to the state-of-the-art methods, especially when requiring the methods to predict a larger set of enhancers. PREPRINT generalises successfully to data from cell type not utilised for training, and often the PREPRINT performs better than the previous methods. The PREPRINT enhancers are less sensitive to the choice of prediction threshold. PREPRINT identifies biologically validated enhancers not predicted by the competing methods. The enhancers predicted by PREPRINT can aid the genome interpretation in functional genomics and clinical studies.http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12859-020-03621-3EnhancerProbabilistic modellingClassifierChIP-seqCoverage pattern |
| spellingShingle | Maria Osmala Harri Lähdesmäki Enhancer prediction in the human genome by probabilistic modelling of the chromatin feature patterns BMC Bioinformatics Enhancer Probabilistic modelling Classifier ChIP-seq Coverage pattern |
| title | Enhancer prediction in the human genome by probabilistic modelling of the chromatin feature patterns |
| title_full | Enhancer prediction in the human genome by probabilistic modelling of the chromatin feature patterns |
| title_fullStr | Enhancer prediction in the human genome by probabilistic modelling of the chromatin feature patterns |
| title_full_unstemmed | Enhancer prediction in the human genome by probabilistic modelling of the chromatin feature patterns |
| title_short | Enhancer prediction in the human genome by probabilistic modelling of the chromatin feature patterns |
| title_sort | enhancer prediction in the human genome by probabilistic modelling of the chromatin feature patterns |
| topic | Enhancer Probabilistic modelling Classifier ChIP-seq Coverage pattern |
| url | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12859-020-03621-3 |
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