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Machine learning and statistics shape a novel path in archaeal promoter annotation.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Archaea are a vast and unexplored domain. Bioinformatic techniques might enlighten the path to a higher quality genome annotation in varied organisms. Promoter sequences of archaea have the action of a plethora of proteins upon it. The conservation found in a structural level of the binding site of proteins such as TBP, TFB, and TFE aids RNAP-DNA stabilization and makes the archaeal promoter prone to be explored by statistical and machine learning techniques.

Results and discussions

In this study, experimentally verified promoter sequences of the organisms Haloferax volcanii, Sulfolobus solfataricus, and Thermococcus kodakarensis were converted into DNA duplex stability attributes (i.e. numerical variables) and were classified through Artificial Neural Networks and an in-house statistical method of classification, being tested with three forms of controls. The recognition of these promoters enabled its use to validate unannotated promoter sequences in other organisms. As a result, the binding site of basal transcription factors was located through a DNA duplex stability codification. Additionally, the classification presented satisfactory results (above 90%) among varied levels of control.

Concluding remarks

The classification models were employed to perform genomic annotation into the archaea Aciduliprofundum boonei and Thermofilum pendens, from which potential promoters have been identified and uploaded into public repositories.

SUBMITTER: Martinez GS

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9087966 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Machine learning and statistics shape a novel path in archaeal promoter annotation.

Martinez Gustavo Sganzerla GS Pérez-Rueda Ernesto E Sarkar Sharmilee S Kumar Aditya A de Ávila E Silva Scheila S

BMC bioinformatics 20220510 1

<h4>Background</h4>Archaea are a vast and unexplored domain. Bioinformatic techniques might enlighten the path to a higher quality genome annotation in varied organisms. Promoter sequences of archaea have the action of a plethora of proteins upon it. The conservation found in a structural level of the binding site of proteins such as TBP, TFB, and TFE aids RNAP-DNA stabilization and makes the archaeal promoter prone to be explored by statistical and machine learning techniques.<h4>Results and di ...[more]

PMID: 35538405

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Machine learning and statistics shape a novel path in archaeal promoter annotation.

Background

Results and discussions

Concluding remarks

Publications

Machine learning and statistics shape a novel path in archaeal promoter annotation.

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