Interpretable Prediction of mRNA Abundance from Promoter Sequence using Contextual Regression Models
Wang, S.; Wang, W.
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While machine learning models have been successfully applied to predicting gene expression from promoter sequences, it remains a great challenge to derive intuitive interpretation of the model and reveal DNA motif grammar such as motif cooperation and distance constraint between motif sites. Previous interpretation approaches are often time-consuming or hard to learn the combinatory rules. In this work, we designed interpretable neural network models to predict the mRNA expression levels from DNA sequences. By applying the Contextual Regression framework we developed, we extracted weighted features to cluster samples into different groups, which have different gene expression levels. We performed motif analysis in each cluster and found motifs with active or repressive regulation on gene expression as well as motif combination grammars including several motif communities and distance constraints between cooperative motifs.
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