iPro-CSAF: identification of promoters based on convolutional spiking neural networks and spiking attention mechanism
A promoter is a DNA segment which plays a key role in regulating gene expression. Accurate identification of promoters is significant for understanding the regulatory mechanisms involved in gene expression and genetic disease treatment. Therefore, it is an urgent challenge to develop computational m...
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| description | A promoter is a DNA segment which plays a key role in regulating gene expression. Accurate identification of promoters is significant for understanding the regulatory mechanisms involved in gene expression and genetic disease treatment. Therefore, it is an urgent challenge to develop computational methods for identifying promoters. Most current methods were designed for promoter recognition on few species and required complex feature extraction methods in order to attain high recognition accuracy. Spiking neural networks have inherent recurrence and use spike-based sparse coding. Therefore, they have good property of processing spatio-temporal information and are well suited for learning sequence information. In this study, iPro-CSAF, a convolutional spiking neural network combined with spiking attention mechanism is designed for promoter recognition. The method extracts promoter features by two parallel branches including spiking attention mechanism and a convolutional spiking layer. The promoter recognition of iPro-CSAF is evaluated by exhaustive promoter recognition experiments including both prokaryotic and eukaryotic promoter recognition from seven species. Our results show that iPro-CSAF outperforms promoter recognition methods which used parallel CNN layers, methods which combined CNNs with capsule networks, attention mechanism, LSTM or BiLSTM, and CNNs-based methods which needed priori biological or text feature extraction, while our method has much fewer network parameters. It indicates that iPro-CSAF is an effective computational method with low complexity and good generalization for promoter recognition. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-9b1157515f5a440eaba6bd1714e20ee22025-08-20T02:48:54ZengPeerJ Inc.PeerJ Computer Science2376-59922025-03-0111e276110.7717/peerj-cs.2761iPro-CSAF: identification of promoters based on convolutional spiking neural networks and spiking attention mechanismQian Zhou0Jie Meng1Hao Luo2Hebei Key Laboratory of Bioelectromagnetics and Neural Engineering, School of Health Sciences and Biomedical Engineering, Hebei University of Technology, Tianjin, ChinaHebei Key Laboratory of Bioelectromagnetics and Neural Engineering, School of Health Sciences and Biomedical Engineering, Hebei University of Technology, Tianjin, ChinaDepartment of Physics, School of Science, Tianjin University, Tianjin, ChinaA promoter is a DNA segment which plays a key role in regulating gene expression. Accurate identification of promoters is significant for understanding the regulatory mechanisms involved in gene expression and genetic disease treatment. Therefore, it is an urgent challenge to develop computational methods for identifying promoters. Most current methods were designed for promoter recognition on few species and required complex feature extraction methods in order to attain high recognition accuracy. Spiking neural networks have inherent recurrence and use spike-based sparse coding. Therefore, they have good property of processing spatio-temporal information and are well suited for learning sequence information. In this study, iPro-CSAF, a convolutional spiking neural network combined with spiking attention mechanism is designed for promoter recognition. The method extracts promoter features by two parallel branches including spiking attention mechanism and a convolutional spiking layer. The promoter recognition of iPro-CSAF is evaluated by exhaustive promoter recognition experiments including both prokaryotic and eukaryotic promoter recognition from seven species. Our results show that iPro-CSAF outperforms promoter recognition methods which used parallel CNN layers, methods which combined CNNs with capsule networks, attention mechanism, LSTM or BiLSTM, and CNNs-based methods which needed priori biological or text feature extraction, while our method has much fewer network parameters. It indicates that iPro-CSAF is an effective computational method with low complexity and good generalization for promoter recognition.https://peerj.com/articles/cs-2761.pdfPromoter recognitionDeep learningConvolutional spiking neural networkSpiking attention mechanismSpiking neuron |
| spellingShingle | Qian Zhou Jie Meng Hao Luo iPro-CSAF: identification of promoters based on convolutional spiking neural networks and spiking attention mechanism PeerJ Computer Science Promoter recognition Deep learning Convolutional spiking neural network Spiking attention mechanism Spiking neuron |
| title | iPro-CSAF: identification of promoters based on convolutional spiking neural networks and spiking attention mechanism |
| title_full | iPro-CSAF: identification of promoters based on convolutional spiking neural networks and spiking attention mechanism |
| title_fullStr | iPro-CSAF: identification of promoters based on convolutional spiking neural networks and spiking attention mechanism |
| title_full_unstemmed | iPro-CSAF: identification of promoters based on convolutional spiking neural networks and spiking attention mechanism |
| title_short | iPro-CSAF: identification of promoters based on convolutional spiking neural networks and spiking attention mechanism |
| title_sort | ipro csaf identification of promoters based on convolutional spiking neural networks and spiking attention mechanism |
| topic | Promoter recognition Deep learning Convolutional spiking neural network Spiking attention mechanism Spiking neuron |
| url | https://peerj.com/articles/cs-2761.pdf |
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