ViralmiR: A support-vector-machine-based method for predicting viral microRNA precursors

Kai Yao Huang, Tzong Yi Lee, Yu Chuan Teng, Tzu Hao Chang

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摘要

Background: microRNAs (miRNAs) play a vital role in development, oncogenesis, and apoptosis by binding to mRNAs to regulate the posttranscriptional level of coding genes in mammals, plants, and insects. Recent studies have demonstrated that the expression of viral miRNAs is associated with the ability of the virus to infect a host. Identifying potential viral miRNAs from experimental sequence data is valuable for deciphering virus-host interactions. Thus far, a specific predictive model for viral miRNA identification has yet to be developed. Methods and results: Here, we present ViralmiR for identifying viral miRNA precursors on the basis of sequencing and structural information. We collected 263 experimentally validated miRNA precursors (pre-miRNAs) from 26 virus species and generated sequencing fragments from virus and human genomes as the negative dataset. Support vector machine and random forest models were established using 54 features from RNA sequences and secondary structural information. The results show that ViralmiR achieved a balanced accuracy higher than 83%, which is superior to that of previously developed tools for identifying pre-miRNAs. Conclusions: The easy-to-use ViralmiR web interface has been provided as a helpful resource for researchers to use in analyzing and deciphering virus-host interactions.

原文英語
文章編號S9
期刊BMC Bioinformatics
16
發行號1
DOIs
出版狀態已發佈 - 1月 21 2015

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • 應用數學
  • 分子生物學
  • 結構生物學
  • 生物化學
  • 電腦科學應用

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