Human Pol II promoter prediction by using nucleotide property composition features

Wen Lin Huang, Chun Wei Tung, Shinn Ying Ho

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Abstract

RNA polymerase II (Pol II) promoter is a key region that regulates differential transcription of protein coding genes. The identification of the RNA polymerase II (Pol II) promoter is one of the most challenging problems in genome annotation. Though many promoter prediction methods and tools have been developed, they have not yet extracted informative features from large-scale DNA sequences to improve predictive accuracy. A prediction method ProPolyII, which involves mining informative nucleotide property composition (NPC) features, is proposed to design a support vector machine-based classifier. An existing data set HumP (1872 human promoters and 1870 non-promoters) is used to evaluate ProPolyII for promoter prediction. ProPolyII yields 70 informative NPC features with training and test accuracies of 99.1% and 95.1%, respectively. The 70 NPC features consist of 46 4-mer motifs, 3 nucleotide properties and 21 global descriptors. The accuracies are better than those of Prom-Machine (94.9% and 91.1%) and M1 (97.4% and 93.6%) which uses top 128 4-mer motifs and 36 global descriptors, respectively. The high predictive performance indicates that ProPolyII can be beneficial in the identification of promoters comparative to other methods.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationISB 2010 Proceedings - International Symposium on Biocomputing
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - May 3 2010
Externally publishedYes
EventInternational Symposium on Biocomputing, ISB 2010 - Calicut, Kerala, India
Duration: Feb 15 2010Feb 17 2010

Publication series

NameISB 2010 Proceedings - International Symposium on Biocomputing

Conference

ConferenceInternational Symposium on Biocomputing, ISB 2010
Country/TerritoryIndia
CityCalicut, Kerala
Period2/15/102/17/10

Keywords

  • Global descriptors
  • Nucleotide property
  • Promoter
  • Support vector machine

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Biochemistry,Genetics and Molecular Biology
  • Computational Theory and Mathematics
  • Software
  • Pharmaceutical Science

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