CNN-XG: A Hybrid Framework for sgRNA On-Target Prediction

Autor: Bohao Li, Dongmei Ai, Xiuqin Liu
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Biomolecules, Vol 12, Iss 3, p 409 (2022)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2218-273X
DOI: 10.3390/biom12030409
Popis: As the third generation gene editing technology, Crispr/Cas9 has a wide range of applications. The success of Crispr depends on the editing of the target gene via a functional complex of sgRNA and Cas9 proteins. Therefore, highly specific and high on-target cleavage efficiency sgRNA can make this process more accurate and efficient. Although there are already many sophisticated machine learning or deep learning models to predict the on-target cleavage efficiency of sgRNA, prediction accuracy remains to be improved. XGBoost is good at classification as the ensemble model could overcome the deficiency of a single classifier to classify, and we would like to improve the prediction efficiency for sgRNA on-target activity by introducing XGBoost into the model. We present a novel machine learning framework which combines a convolutional neural network (CNN) and XGBoost to predict sgRNA on-target knockout efficacy. Our framework, called CNN-XG, is mainly composed of two parts: a feature extractor CNN is used to automatically extract features from sequences and predictor XGBoost is applied to predict features extracted after convolution. Experiments on commonly used datasets show that CNN-XG performed significantly better than other existing frameworks in the predicted classification mode.
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