Multi-task adaptive pooling enabled synergetic learning of RNA modification across tissue, type and species from low-resolution epitranscriptomes



Song, Yiyou, Wang, Yue, Wang, Xuan, Huang, Daiyun, Nguyen, Anh ORCID: 0000-0002-1449-211X and Meng, Jia ORCID: 0000-0003-3455-205X
(2023) Multi-task adaptive pooling enabled synergetic learning of RNA modification across tissue, type and species from low-resolution epitranscriptomes. BRIEFINGS IN BIOINFORMATICS, 24 (3). bbad105-.

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Abstract

Post- and co-transcriptional RNA modifications are found to play various roles in regulating essential biological processes at all stages of RNA life. Precise identification of RNA modification sites is thus crucial for understanding the related molecular functions and specific regulatory circuitry. To date, a number of computational approaches have been developed for in silico identification of RNA modification sites; however, most of them require learning from base-resolution epitranscriptome datasets, which are generally scarce and available only for a limited number of experimental conditions, and predict only a single modification, even though there are multiple inter-related RNA modification types available. In this study, we proposed AdaptRM, a multi-task computational method for synergetic learning of multi-tissue, type and species RNA modifications from both high- and low-resolution epitranscriptome datasets. By taking advantage of adaptive pooling and multi-task learning, the newly proposed AdaptRM approach outperformed the state-of-the-art computational models (WeakRM and TS-m6A-DL) and two other deep-learning architectures based on Transformer and ConvMixer in three different case studies for both high-resolution and low-resolution prediction tasks, demonstrating its effectiveness and generalization ability. In addition, by interpreting the learned models, we unveiled for the first time the potential association between different tissues in terms of epitranscriptome sequence patterns. AdaptRM is available as a user-friendly web server from http://www.rnamd.org/AdaptRM together with all the codes and data used in this project.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: adaptive pooling, ConvMixer, low-resolution epitranscriptomes, multi-task learning, RNA modification, transformer
Divisions: Faculty of Science and Engineering > School of Electrical Engineering, Electronics and Computer Science
Depositing User: Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited: 04 Apr 2023 15:09
Last Modified: 17 Mar 2024 02:30
DOI: 10.1093/bib/bbad105
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URI: https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3169413