Opportunities and obstacles for deep learning in biology and medicine

T Ching, DS Himmelstein… - Journal of the …, 2018 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Deep learning describes a class of machine learning algorithms that are capable of
combining raw inputs into layers of intermediate features. These algorithms have recently …

Absence of a simple code: how transcription factors read the genome

M Slattery, T Zhou, L Yang, ACD Machado… - Trends in biochemical …, 2014 - cell.com
Transcription factors (TFs) influence cell fate by interpreting the regulatory DNA within a
genome. TFs recognize DNA in a specific manner; the mechanisms underlying this …

Predicting effects of noncoding variants with deep learning–based sequence model

J Zhou, OG Troyanskaya - Nature methods, 2015 - nature.com
Identifying functional effects of noncoding variants is a major challenge in human genetics.
To predict the noncoding-variant effects de novo from sequence, we developed a deep …

Landscape of transcription in human cells

S Djebali, CA Davis, A Merkel, A Dobin, T Lassmann… - Nature, 2012 - nature.com
Eukaryotic cells make many types of primary and processed RNAs that are found either in
specific subcellular compartments or throughout the cells. A complete catalogue of these …

Enhanced Regulatory Sequence Prediction Using Gapped k-mer Features

M Ghandi, D Lee, M Mohammad-Noori… - PLoS computational …, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Oligomers of length k, or k-mers, are convenient and widely used features for modeling the
properties and functions of DNA and protein sequences. However, k-mers suffer from the …

ChIPBase v2. 0: decoding transcriptional regulatory networks of non-coding RNAs and protein-coding genes from ChIP-seq data

KR Zhou, S Liu, WJ Sun, LL Zheng, H Zhou… - Nucleic acids …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
The abnormal transcriptional regulation of non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs) and protein-coding
genes (PCGs) is contributed to various biological processes and linked with human …

Machine learning for big data analytics in plants

C Ma, HH Zhang, X Wang - Trends in plant science, 2014 - cell.com
Rapid advances in high-throughput genomic technology have enabled biology to enter the
era of 'Big Data'(large datasets). The plant science community not only needs to build its …

Genomic regions flanking E-box binding sites influence DNA binding specificity of bHLH transcription factors through DNA shape

R Gordân, N Shen, I Dror, T Zhou, J Horton, R Rohs… - Cell reports, 2013 - cell.com
DNA sequence is a major determinant of the binding specificity of transcription factors (TFs)
for their genomic targets. However, eukaryotic cells often express, at the same time, TFs with …

High-throughput functional testing of ENCODE segmentation predictions

JC Kwasnieski, C Fiore, HG Chaudhari… - Genome …, 2014 - genome.cshlp.org
The histone modification state of genomic regions is hypothesized to reflect the regulatory
activity of the underlying genomic DNA. Based on this hypothesis, the ENCODE Project …

In pursuit of design principles of regulatory sequences

M Levo, E Segal - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2014 - nature.com
Instructions for when, where and to what level each gene should be expressed are encoded
within regulatory sequences. The importance of motifs recognized by DNA-binding …