DeepRiPe
Deep neural networks for interpreting RNA binding protein target preferences
Publication:
M. Ghanbari, U. Ohler (2019). Deep neural networks for interpreting RNA binding protein target preferences.
A simplified graphical illustration of the model: the model consists of a sequence module that extracts features from the RNA sequence and a region module that extracts features from genomic locations. The features of these modules are then merged and fed to a multitask module to predict the binding sites of multiple RBPs simultaneously.
Abstract
Deep learning has become a powerful paradigm to analyze the binding sites of regulatory factors including RNA-binding proteins (RBPs), owing to its strength to learn complex features from possibly multiple sources of raw data. However, the interpretability of these models, which is crucial to improve our understanding of RBP binding preferences and functions, has not yet been investigated in significant detail. We have designed a multitask and multimodal deep neural network for characterizing in vivo RBP binding preferences. The model incorporates not only the sequence but also the region type of the binding sites as input, which helps the model to boost the prediction performance. To interpret the model, we quantified the contribution of the input features to the predictive score of each RBP. Learning across multiple RBPs at once, we are able to avoid experimental biases and to identify the RNA sequence motifs and transcript context patterns that are the most important for the predictions of each individual RBP. Our findings are consistent with known motifs and binding behaviors of RBPs and can provide new insights about the regulatory functions of RBPs.
Downloads
Here you can download the Input data for the PAR-CLIP models: data
Repository
The code can be found at https://github.com/ohlerlab/DeepRiPe