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Identification of Alternative Splicing and Polyadenylation in RNA-seq Data

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Published on: June 24, 2021

Predicting protein interaction network perturbation by alternative splicing with semi-supervised learning.

Oleksandr Narykov¹, Nathan T Johnson², Dmitry Korkin¹

¹Department of Computer Science, and Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Program, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA, USA.

|November 24, 2021

Summary

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Alternative splicing diversifies protein functions, impacting cellular processes. Our new tool, ALT-IN, accurately predicts how alternative splicing affects protein-protein interactions, improving our understanding of molecular complexity.

Keywords:

alternative splicing machine learning protein-protein interactions semi-supervised learning

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Area of Science:

Molecular Biology
Bioinformatics
Computational Biology

Background:

Alternative splicing generates protein diversity, influencing cellular functions and disease phenotypes.
Understanding how alternative splicing impacts protein-protein interactions (PPIs) is crucial but challenging.
In silico methods offer efficient ways to study alternatively spliced isoforms and their functional consequences.

Purpose of the Study:

To develop a machine learning approach for predicting the impact of alternative splicing on protein-protein interactions.
To assess the performance of this new method against existing state-of-the-art tools.

Main Methods:

Developed a feature-based machine learning model named the alternatively spliced interactions prediction (ALT-IN) tool.
Trained and validated the model using data on protein isoforms and their interactions.
Compared ALT-IN's predictive performance against established PPI prediction tools.

Main Results:

The ALT-IN tool demonstrates high accuracy in predicting perturbations of protein-protein interactions by alternatively spliced isoforms.
Achieved superior performance with precision and recall values of 0.92.
Outperformed existing state-of-the-art PPI prediction tools in this specific task.

Conclusions:

The ALT-IN tool provides an accurate and efficient in silico method for predicting the functional consequences of alternative splicing on protein interactions.
This advancement aids in understanding the complexity of cellular regulation and disease mechanisms driven by alternative splicing.