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. 2020 Jun 9:16:1176934320925752.
doi: 10.1177/1176934320925752. eCollection 2020.

PSI-MOUSE: Predicting Mouse Pseudouridine Sites From Sequence and Genome-Derived Features

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PSI-MOUSE: Predicting Mouse Pseudouridine Sites From Sequence and Genome-Derived Features

Bowen Song et al. Evol Bioinform Online. .

Abstract

Pseudouridine (Ψ) is the first discovered and the most prevalent posttranscriptional modification, which has been widely studied during the past decades. Pseudouridine was observed in almost all kinds of RNAs and shown to have important biological functions. Currently, the time-consuming and high-cost procedures of experimental approaches limit its uses in real-life Ψ site detection. Alternatively, by taking advantage of the explosive growth of Ψ sequencing data, the computational methods may provide a more cost-effective avenue. To date, the existing mouse Ψ site predictors were all developed based on sequence-derived features, and their performance can be further improved by adding the domain knowledge derived feature. Therefore, it is highly desirable to propose a genomic feature-based computational method to increase the accuracy and efficiency of the identification of Ψ RNA modification in the mouse transcriptome. In our study, a predictive framework PSI-MOUSE was built. Besides the conventional sequence-based features, PSI-MOUSE first introduced 38 additional genomic features derived from the mouse genome, which achieved a satisfactory improvement in the prediction performance, compared with other existing models. Moreover, PSI-MOUSE also features in automatically annotating the putative Ψ sites with diverse types of posttranscriptional regulations (RNA-binding protein [RBP]-binding regions, miRNA-RNA interactions, and splicing sites), which can serve as a useful research tool for the study of Ψ RNA modification in the mouse genome. Finally, 3282 experimentally validated mouse Ψ sites were also collected in a database with customized query functions. For the convenience of academic users, a website was built to provide a user-friendly interface for the query and analysis on the database. The website is freely accessible at www.xjtlu.edu.cn/biologicalsciences/psimouse and http://psimouse.rnamd.com. We introduced the genome-derived features to mouse for the first time, and we achieved a good performance in mouse Ψ site prediction. Compared with the existing state-of-art methods, our newly developed approach PSI-MOUSE obtained a substantial improvement in prediction accuracy, marking the reliable contributions of genomic features for the prediction of RNA modifications in a species other than human.

Keywords: Pseudouridine sites; genomic feature; web-server.

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Declaration of Conflicting Interests:The author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.

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Figure 1.
Figure 1.
Feature selection of the genome-derived features for mouse Ψ site prediction. Top 26 and 28 genomic features were used in further prediction under mouse full transcript model (A) and mouse mature mRNA model (B), respectively. mRNA indicates messenger RNA.
Figure 2.
Figure 2.
Screenshot of the homepage of PSI-MOUSE. The web server and database of PSI-MOUSE can be easily accessed from the homepage. The webserver of PSI-MOUSE currently does not allow us to submit prediction jobs using Safari iOS system.

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