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SpikGPT: A High-Accuracy and Interpretable Spiking Attention Framework for Single-Cell Annotation
This paper addresses the core challenge of robust single-cell annotation across heterogeneous datasets with batch effects and the critical need to ide...
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Unlocking hidden biomolecular conformational landscapes in diffusion models at inference time
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Personalized optimization of pediatric HD-tDCS for dose consistency and target engagement
This paper addresses the critical limitation of one-size-fits-all HD-tDCS protocols in pediatric populations by developing a personalized optimization...
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Realistic Transition Paths for Large Biomolecular Systems: A Langevin Bridge Approach
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Consistent Synthetic Sequences Unlock Structural Diversity in Fully Atomistic De Novo Protein Design
This paper addresses the core pain point of low sequence-structure alignment in existing synthetic datasets (e.g., AFDB), which severely limits the pe...
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MoRSAIK: Sequence Motif Reactor Simulation, Analysis and Inference Kit in Python
This work addresses the computational bottleneck in simulating prebiotic RNA reactor dynamics by developing a Python package that tracks sequence moti...
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On the Approximation of Phylogenetic Distance Functions by Artificial Neural Networks
This paper addresses the core challenge of developing computationally efficient and scalable neural network architectures that can learn accurate phyl...
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EcoCast: A Spatio-Temporal Model for Continual Biodiversity and Climate Risk Forecasting
This paper addresses the critical bottleneck in conservation: the lack of timely, high-resolution, near-term forecasts of species distribution shifts ...
A Multi-Label Temporal Convolutional Framework for Transcription Factor Binding Characterization
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IN SHORT: This paper addresses the critical limitation of existing TF binding prediction methods that treat transcription factors as independent entities, failing to capture their cooperative regulatory mechanisms through multi-label classification.
核心创新
- Methodology First application of Temporal Convolutional Networks (TCNs) to multi-label transcription factor binding prediction, enabling simultaneous prediction of multiple TF binding events from DNA sequences.
- Methodology Development of three multi-label datasets (D-5TF-3CL, D-7TF-4CL, H-M-E2F) from ENCODE ChIP-seq data, specifically designed to study TF cooperativity.
- Biology Demonstration that deep learning models can learn biologically meaningful TF correlations and cooperative patterns directly from DNA sequence data, revealing both known and novel TF interactions.
主要结论
- TCN-based models significantly outperform RNN baselines in multi-label TF prediction, achieving average F1-score improvements of +0.17 to +0.26 across datasets (p<0.05).
- The model captures biologically relevant TF correlations, with TCN achieving AP scores of 0.73±0.01 on the H-M-E2F dataset compared to 0.52±0.00 for RNN baselines.
- TCNs demonstrate robust performance even with limited data, maintaining AP >0.7 on 152 out of 165 binary classification datasets despite moderate correlation (Pearson r=0.61) between performance and dataset size.
摘要: Transcription factors (TFs) regulate gene expression through complex and cooperative mechanisms. While many TFs act together, the logic underlying TFs binding and their interactions is not fully understood yet. Most current approaches for TF binding site prediction focus on individual TFs and binary classification tasks, without a full analysis of the possible interactions among various TFs. In this paper we investigate DNA TF binding site recognition as a multi-label classification problem, achieving reliable predictions for multiple TFs on DNA sequences retrieved in public repositories. Our deep learning models are based on Temporal Convolutional Networks (TCNs), which are able to predict multiple TF binding profiles, capturing correlations among TFs and their cooperative regulatory mechanisms. Our results suggest that multi-label learning leading to reliable predictive performances can reveal biologically meaningful motifs and co-binding patterns consistent with known TF interactions, while also suggesting novel relationships and cooperation among TFs.