A novel two-layer SVM model in miRNA Drosha processing site detection

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Background: MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are a large class of non-coding RNAs with important functions wide spread in animals, plants and viruses. Studies showed that an RNase III family member called Drosha recognizes most miRNAs, initiates their processing and determines the mature miRNAs. The Drosha processing sites identification will shed some light on both miRNA identification and understanding the mechanism of Drosha processing. Methods: We developed a computational method for Drosha processing site predicting, named as DroshaPSP, which employs a two-layer mathematical model to integrate structure feature in the first layer and sequence features in the second layer. The performance of DroshaPSP was estimated by 5-fold cross-validation and measured by ACC (accuracy), Sn (sensitivity), Sp (specificity), P (precision) and MCC (Matthews correlation coefficient). Results: The results of testing DroshaPSP on the miRNA data of Drosophila melanogaster indicated that the Sn, Sp, and MCC thereof reach to 0.86, 0.99 and 0.86 respectively. Conclusions: We found the Shannon entropy, a chemical kinetics feature, is a significant feature in telling the true sites among the nearby sites and improving the performance. © 2013 Hu et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

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Hu, X., Ma, C., & Zhou, Y. (2013). A novel two-layer SVM model in miRNA Drosha processing site detection. BMC Systems Biology, 7(SUPPL4). https://doi.org/10.1186/1752-0509-7-S4-S4

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