Progresses in predicting post-translational modification

KC Chou - International Journal of Peptide Research and …, 2020 - Springer
Identification of the sites of post-translational modifications (PTMs) in protein, RNA, and DNA
sequences is currently a very hot topic. This is because the information thus obtained is very …

Sequence representation approaches for sequence-based protein prediction tasks that use deep learning

F Cui, Z Zhang, Q Zou - Briefings in Functional Genomics, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Deep learning has been increasingly used in bioinformatics, especially in sequence-based
protein prediction tasks, as large amounts of biological data are available and deep learning …

MRMD2. 0: a python tool for machine learning with feature ranking and reduction

S He, F Guo, Q Zou - Current Bioinformatics, 2020 - ingentaconnect.com
Aims: The study aims to find a way to reduce the dimensionality of the dataset. Background:
Dimensionality reduction is the key issue of the machine learning process. It does not only …

Anticancer peptides prediction with deep representation learning features

Z Lv, F Cui, Q Zou, L Zhang, L Xu - Briefings in bioinformatics, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Anticancer peptides constitute one of the most promising therapeutic agents for combating
common human cancers. Using wet experiments to verify whether a peptide displays …

Identification of membrane protein types via multivariate information fusion with Hilbert–Schmidt independence criterion

H Wang, Y Ding, J Tang, F Guo - Neurocomputing, 2020 - Elsevier
Membrane proteins perform a variety of functions vital to the survival of organisms, such as
oxidoreductase, transferase or hydrolase. If the type of membrane protein can be detected …

iEnhancer-5Step: identifying enhancers using hidden information of DNA sequences via Chou's 5-step rule and word embedding

NQK Le, EKY Yapp, QT Ho, N Nagasundaram… - Analytical …, 2019 - Elsevier
An enhancer is a short (50–1500bp) region of DNA that plays an important role in gene
expression and the production of RNA and proteins. Genetic variation in enhancers has …

CRBPDL: Identification of circRNA-RBP interaction sites using an ensemble neural network approach

M Niu, Q Zou, C Lin - PLoS computational biology, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Circular RNAs (circRNAs) are non-coding RNAs with a special circular structure produced
formed by the reverse splicing mechanism. Increasing evidence shows that circular RNAs …

DeepAVP: a dual-channel deep neural network for identifying variable-length antiviral peptides

J Li, Y Pu, J Tang, Q Zou, F Guo - IEEE Journal of Biomedical …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Antiviral peptides (AVPs) have been experimentally verified to block virus into host cells,
which have antiviral activity with decapeptide amide. Therefore, utilization of experimentally …

NmRF: identification of multispecies RNA 2'-O-methylation modification sites from RNA sequences

C Ao, Q Zou, L Yu - Briefings in bioinformatics, 2022 - academic.oup.com
O-methylation (Nm) is a post-transcriptional modification of RNA that is catalyzed by 2'-O-
methyltransferase and involves replacing the H on the 2′-hydroxyl group with a methyl …

RF-PseU: a random forest predictor for RNA pseudouridine sites

Z Lv, J Zhang, H Ding, Q Zou - Frontiers in Bioengineering and …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
One of the ubiquitous chemical modifications in RNA, pseudouridine modification is crucial
for various cellular biological and physiological processes. To gain more insight into the …