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Tipo: Artigo
Título: Erratum to: Mirnacle: machine learning with SMOTE and random forest for improving selectivity in pre-miRNA ab initio prediction
Autor(es): Marques, Yuri Bento
Oliveira, Alcione de Paiva
Vasconcelos, Ana Tereza Ribeiro
Cerqueira, Fabio Ribeiro
Abstract: MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are key gene expression regulators in plants and animals. Therefore, miRNAs are involved in several biological processes, making the study of these molecules one of the most relevant topics of molecular biology nowadays. However, characterizing miRNAs in vivo is still a complex task. As a consequence, in silico methods have been developed to predict miRNA loci. A common ab initio strategy to find miRNAs in genomic data is to search for sequences that can fold into the typical hairpin structure of miRNA precursors (pre-miRNAs). The current ab initio approaches, however, have selectivity issues, i.e., a high number of false positives is reported, which can lead to laborious and costly attempts to provide biological validation. This study presents an extension of the ab initio method miRNAFold, with the aim of improving selectivity through machine learning techniques, namely, random forest combined with the SMOTE procedure that copes with imbalance datasets. By comparing our method, termed Mirnacle, with other important approaches in the literature, we demonstrate that Mirnacle substantially improves selectivity without compromising sensitivity. For the three datasets used in our experiments, our method achieved at least 97% of sensitivity and could deliver a two-fold, 20-fold, and 6-fold increase in selectivity, respectively, compared with the best results of current computational tools. The extension of miRNAFold by the introduction of machine learning techniques, significantly increases selectivity in pre-miRNA ab initio prediction, which optimally contributes to advanced studies on miRNAs, as the need of biological validations is diminished. Hopefully, new research, such as studies of severe diseases caused by miRNA malfunction, will benefit from the proposed computational tool.
Palavras-chave: Pre-miRNA ab initio prediction
Random forest
Smote
microRNA
Machine learning
Data mining
Editor: BMC Bioinformatics
Tipo de Acesso: Open Access
URI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12859-017-1508-0
http://www.locus.ufv.br/handle/123456789/23716
Data do documento: 2017
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