PredLnc-GFStack: A Global Sequence Feature Based on a Stacked Ensemble Learning Method for Predicting LncRNAs from Transcripts

Overview

Journal Genes (Basel)

Publisher MDPI

Date 2019 Sep 6

PMID 31484412

Citations 9

Authors

Shuai Liu

Xiaohan Zhao

Guangyan Zhang

Weiyang Li

Feng Liu

Shichao Liu

Wen Zhang

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Abstract

Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) are a class of RNAs with the length exceeding 200 base pairs (bps), which do not encode proteins, nevertheless, lncRNAs have many vital biological functions. A large number of novel transcripts were discovered as a result of the development of high-throughput sequencing technology. Under this circumstance, computational methods for lncRNA prediction are in great demand. In this paper, we consider global sequence features and propose a stacked ensemble learning-based method to predict lncRNAs from transcripts, abbreviated as PredLnc-GFStack. We extract the critical features from the candidate feature list using the genetic algorithm (GA) and then employ the stacked ensemble learning method to construct PredLnc-GFStack model. Computational experimental results show that PredLnc-GFStack outperforms several state-of-the-art methods for lncRNA prediction. Furthermore, PredLnc-GFStack demonstrates an outstanding ability for cross-species ncRNA prediction.

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