SINC(I)   25518
INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACION EN SEÑALES, SISTEMAS E INTELIGENCIA COMPUTACIONAL
Unidad Ejecutora - UE
artículos
Título:
High class-imbalance in pre-miRNA prediction: a novel approach based on deepSOM (IF 1.438)
Autor/es:
STEGMAYER, G.; MILONE, D.H.; KAMENETZKY, L.; YONES, C.A.
Revista:
IEEE-ACM TRANSACTIONS ON COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY AND BIOINFORMATICS
Editorial:
IEEE COMPUTER SOC
Referencias:
Lugar: Los Alamitos, CA, USA; Año: 2017 vol. 14 p. 1316 - 1326
ISSN:
1545-5963
Resumen:
The computational prediction of novel microRNA within a full genome involves identifying sequences having the highest chance of being a miRNA precursor (pre-miRNA). These sequences are usually named candidates to miRNA. The well-known pre-miRNAs are usually only a few in comparison to the hundreds of thousands of potential candidates to miRNA that have to be analyzed, which makes this task a high class-imbalance classification problem. The classical way of approaching it has been training a binary classifier in a supervised manner, using well-known pre-miRNAs as positive class and artificially defining the negative class. However, although the selection of positive labeled examples is straightforward, it is very difficult to build a set of negative examples in order to obtain a good set of training samples for a supervised method. In this work, we propose a novel and effective way of approaching this problem using machine learning, without the definition of negative examples. The proposal is based on clustering unlabeled sequences of a genome together with well-known miRNA precursors for the organism under study, which allows for the quick identification of the best candidates to miRNA as those sequences clustered with known precursors. Furthermore, we propose a deep model to overcome the problem of having very few positive class labels. They are always maintained in the deep levels as positive class while less likely pre-miRNA sequences are filtered level after level. Our approach has been compared with other methods for pre-miRNAs prediction in several species, showing effective predictivity of novel miRNAs. Additionally, we will show that our approach has a lower training time and allows for a better graphical navegability and interpretation of the results. A web-demo interface to try deepSOM is available at http://fich.unl.edu.ar/sinc/web-demo/deepsom/