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MicroRNA categorization using sequence motifs and k-mers
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Yousef M
; Khalifa W
; Acar ?E
; Allmer J
BMC Bioinformatics
2017[Mar]; 18
(1
): 170
PMID28292266
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BACKGROUND: Post-transcriptional gene dysregulation can be a hallmark of diseases
like cancer and microRNAs (miRNAs) play a key role in the modulation of
translation efficiency. Known pre-miRNAs are listed in miRBase, and they have
been discovered in a variety of organisms ranging from viruses and microbes to
eukaryotic organisms. The computational detection of pre-miRNAs is of great
interest, and such approaches usually employ machine learning to discriminate
between miRNAs and other sequences. Many features have been proposed describing
pre-miRNAs, and we have previously introduced the use of sequence motifs and
k-mers as useful ones. There have been reports of xeno-miRNAs detected via next
generation sequencing. However, they may be contaminations and to aid that
important decision-making process, we aimed to establish a means to differentiate
pre-miRNAs from different species. RESULTS: To achieve distinction into species,
we used one species' pre-miRNAs as the positive and another species' pre-miRNAs
as the negative training and test data for the establishment of machine learned
models based on sequence motifs and k-mers as features. This approach resulted in
higher accuracy values between distantly related species while species with
closer relation produced lower accuracy values. CONCLUSIONS: We were able to
differentiate among species with increasing success when the evolutionary
distance increases. This conclusion is supported by previous reports of fast
evolutionary changes in miRNAs since even in relatively closely related species a
fairly good discrimination was possible.