LPI-EnEDT: an ensemble framework with extra tree and decision tree classifiers for imbalanced lncRNA-protein interaction data classification

Abstract Background Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) have dense linkages with various biological processes. Identifying interacting lncRNA-protein pairs contributes to understand the functions and mechanisms of lncRNAs. Wet experiments are costly and time-consuming. Most computational methods failed to...

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Autores principales: Lihong Peng, Ruya Yuan, Ling Shen, Pengfei Gao, Liqian Zhou
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Publicado: BMC 2021
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Sumario:Abstract Background Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) have dense linkages with various biological processes. Identifying interacting lncRNA-protein pairs contributes to understand the functions and mechanisms of lncRNAs. Wet experiments are costly and time-consuming. Most computational methods failed to observe the imbalanced characterize of lncRNA-protein interaction (LPI) data. More importantly, they were measured based on a unique dataset, which produced the prediction bias. Results In this study, we develop an Ensemble framework (LPI-EnEDT) with Extra tree and Decision Tree classifiers to implement imbalanced LPI data classification. First, five LPI datasets are arranged. Second, lncRNAs and proteins are separately characterized based on Pyfeat and BioTriangle and concatenated as a vector to represent each lncRNA-protein pair. Finally, an ensemble framework with Extra tree and decision tree classifiers is developed to classify unlabeled lncRNA-protein pairs. The comparative experiments demonstrate that LPI-EnEDT outperforms four classical LPI prediction methods (LPI-BLS, LPI-CatBoost, LPI-SKF, and PLIPCOM) under cross validations on lncRNAs, proteins, and LPIs. The average AUC values on the five datasets are 0.8480, 0,7078, and 0.9066 under the three cross validations, respectively. The average AUPRs are 0.8175, 0.7265, and 0.8882, respectively. Case analyses suggest that there are underlying associations between HOTTIP and Q9Y6M1, NRON and Q15717. Conclusions Fusing diverse biological features of lncRNAs and proteins and exploiting an ensemble learning model with Extra tree and decision tree classifiers, this work focus on imbalanced LPI data classification as well as interaction information inference for a new lncRNA (or protein).