Issue 11, 2016

Identifying RNA 5-methylcytosine sites via pseudo nucleotide compositions

Abstract

RNA 5-methylcytosine (m5C) plays an important role in numerous biological processes. Accurate identification of the m5C site is helpful for a better understanding of its biological functions. However, the drawbacks of the experimental methods available preclude progress towards the identification of the m5C site. As an excellent complement to experimental techniques, computational methods will facilitate the identification of m5C. In the present study, a support vector machine based-method is proposed to identify m5C sites in Homo sapiens. In this method, RNA sequences are encoded using the pseudo dinucleotide composition in which three RNA physiochemical properties are incorporated. It was observed by the jackknife cross-validation that the overall success rate achieved by the proposed model is 90.42%. This result indicates that the proposed model holds the potential to become a useful tool for the identification of m5C sites.

Graphical abstract: Identifying RNA 5-methylcytosine sites via pseudo nucleotide compositions

Supplementary files

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
14 Jun 2016
Accepted
03 Aug 2016
First published
17 Aug 2016

Mol. BioSyst., 2016,12, 3307-3311

Identifying RNA 5-methylcytosine sites via pseudo nucleotide compositions

P. Feng, H. Ding, W. Chen and H. Lin, Mol. BioSyst., 2016, 12, 3307 DOI: 10.1039/C6MB00471G

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