Title
Probabilistic Inference on Multiple Normalized Signal Profiles from Next Generation Sequencing: Transcription Factor Binding Sites
Abstract
With the prevalence of chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP) with sequencing (ChIP-Seq) technology, massive ChIP-Seq data has been accumulated. The ChIP-Seq technology measures the genome-wide occupancy of DNA-binding proteins in vivo. It is well-known that different DNA-binding protein occupancies may result in a gene being regulated in different conditions (e.g. different cell types). To fully understand a gene’s function, it is essential to develop probabilistic models on multiple ChIP-Seq profiles for deciphering the gene transcription causalities. In this work, we propose and describe two probabilistic models. Assuming the conditional independence of different DNA-binding proteins’ occupancies, the first method (SignalRanker) is developed as an intuitive method for ChIP-Seq genome-wide signal profile inference. Unfortunately, such an assumption may not always hold in some gene regulation cases. Thus, we propose and describe another method (FullSignalRanker) which does not make the conditional independence assumption. The proposed methods are compared with other existing methods on ENCODE ChIP-Seq datasets, demonstrating its regression and classification ability. The results suggest that FullSignalRanker is the best-performing method for recovering the signal ranks on the promoter and enhancer regions. In addition, FullSignalRanker is also the best-performing method for peak sequence classification. We envision that SignalRanker and FullSignalRanker will become important in the era of next generation sequencing. FullSignalRanker program is available on the following website: http://www.cs.toronto.edu/$\\sim$ wkc/FullSignalRanker/
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1109/TCBB.2015.2424421
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (TCBB)
Keywords
Field
DocType
proteins,dna,data models,probabilistic logic,bioinformatics
Data mining,ENCODE,DNA binding site,Computer science,Inference,Conditional independence,DNA sequencing,Probabilistic logic,Bioinformatics,Chromatin immunoprecipitation,Enhancer
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
12
6
1545-5963
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.39
8
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ka-Chun Wong129140.18
Chengbin Peng2202.50
yue li320.39