Abstract
It is known that much of the genetic change underlying morphological evolution takes place in cis-regulatory regions, rather than in the coding regions of genes. Identifying these sites in a genome is a non-trivial problem. Experimental methods for finding binding sites exist with some limitations regarding their applicability, accuracy, availability or cost. On the other hand predicting algorithms perform rather poorly. The aim of this research is to develop and improve computational approaches for the prediction of transcription factor binding sites (TFBSs) by integrating the results of computational algorithms and other sources of complementary biological evidence, with particular emphasis on the use of the Support Vector Machine (SVM). Data from two organisms, yeast and mouse, were used in this study. The initial results were not particularly encouraging, as still giving predictions of low quality. However, when the vectors labelled as non-binding sites in the training set were replaced by randomised training vectors, a significant improvement in performance was observed. This gave substantial improvement over the yeast genome and even greater improvement for the mouse data. In fact the resulting classifier was finding over 80% of the binding sites in the test set and moreover 80% of the predictions were correct.
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Rezwan, F., Sun, Y., Davey, N., Adams, R., Rust, A.G., Robinson, M. (2012). Improving Transcription Factor Binding Site Predictions by Using Randomised Negative Examples. In: Lones, M.A., Smith, S.L., Teichmann, S., Naef, F., Walker, J.A., Trefzer, M.A. (eds) Information Processign in Cells and Tissues. IPCAT 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7223. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-28792-3_28
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