Amlan Talukder1, Samaneh Saadat1, Xiaoman Li2, Haiyan Hu1. 1. Department of Computer Science, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA. 2. Burnett School of Biomedical Science, College of Medicine, University of Central Orlando, Orlando, FL, USA.
Abstract
MOTIVATION: The identification of enhancer-promoter interactions (EPIs), especially condition-specific ones, is important for the study of gene transcriptional regulation. Existing experimental approaches for EPI identification are still expensive, and available computational methods either do not consider or have low performance in predicting condition-specific EPIs. RESULTS: We developed a novel computational method called EPIP to reliably predict EPIs, especially condition-specific ones. EPIP is capable of predicting interactions in samples with limited data as well as in samples with abundant data. Tested on more than eight cell lines, EPIP reliably identifies EPIs, with an average area under the receiver operating characteristic curve of 0.95 and an average area under the precision-recall curve of 0.73. Tested on condition-specific EPIPs, EPIP correctly identified 99.26% of them. Compared with two recently developed methods, EPIP outperforms them with a better accuracy. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION: The EPIP tool is freely available at http://www.cs.ucf.edu/˜xiaoman/EPIP/. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
MOTIVATION: The identification of enhancer-promoter interactions (EPIs), especially condition-specific ones, is important for the study of gene transcriptional regulation. Existing experimental approaches for EPI identification are still expensive, and available computational methods either do not consider or have low performance in predicting condition-specific EPIs. RESULTS: We developed a novel computational method called EPIP to reliably predict EPIs, especially condition-specific ones. EPIP is capable of predicting interactions in samples with limited data as well as in samples with abundant data. Tested on more than eight cell lines, EPIP reliably identifies EPIs, with an average area under the receiver operating characteristic curve of 0.95 and an average area under the precision-recall curve of 0.73. Tested on condition-specific EPIPs, EPIP correctly identified 99.26% of them. Compared with two recently developed methods, EPIP outperforms them with a better accuracy. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION: The EPIP tool is freely available at http://www.cs.ucf.edu/˜xiaoman/EPIP/. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.