Title
PreRBP-TL: prediction of species-specific RNA-binding proteins based on transfer learning
Abstract
Motivation: RNA-binding proteins (RBPs) play crucial roles in post-transcriptional regulation. Accurate identification of RBPs helps to understand gene expression, regulation, etc. In recent years, some computational methods were proposed to identify RBPs. However, these methods fail to accurately identify RBPs from some specific species with limited data, such as bacteria. Results: In this study, we introduce a computational method called PreRBP-TL for identifying species-specific RBPs based on transfer learning. The weights of the prediction model were initialized by pretraining with the large general RBP dataset and then fine-tuned with the small species-specific RPB dataset by using transfer learning. The experimental results show that the PreRBP-TL achieves better performance for identifying the species-specific RBPs from Human, Arabidopsis, Escherichia coli and Salmonella, outperforming eight state-of-the-art computational methods. It is anticipated PreRBP-TL will become a useful method for identifying RBPs. Availability and implementation: For the convenience of researchers to identify RBPs, the web server of PreRBP-TL was established, freely available at http://bliulab.net/PreRBP-TL. Contact: bliu@bliulab.net Supplementary information: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1093/bioinformatics/btac106
BIOINFORMATICS
DocType
Volume
Issue
Journal
38
8
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1367-4803
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jun Zhang1108.98
Yan Ke22581191.93
Qingcai Chen380966.72
Bin Liu441933.30