Prediction of Super-enhancers Based on Mean-shift Undersampling


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Background:Super-enhancers are clusters of enhancers defined based on the binding occupancy of master transcription factors, chromatin regulators, or chromatin marks. It has been reported that super-enhancers are transcriptionally more active and cell-type-specific than regular enhancers. Therefore, it is necessary to identify super-enhancers from regular enhancers. A variety of computational methods have been proposed to identify super-enhancers as auxiliary tools. However, most methods use ChIP-seq data, and the lack of this part of the data will make the predictor unable to execute or fail to achieve satisfactory performance.

Objective:The aim of this study is to propose a stacking computational model based on the fusion of multiple features to identify super-enhancers in both human and mouse species.

Methods:This work adopted mean-shift to cluster majority class samples and selected four sets of balanced datasets for mouse and three sets of balanced datasets for human to train the stacking model. Five types of sequence information are used as input to the XGBoost classifier, and the average value of the probability outputs from each classifier is designed as the final classification result.

Results:The results of 10-fold cross-validation and cross-cell-line validation prove that our method has superior performance compared to other existing methods. The source code and datasets are available at https://github.com/Cheng-Han-max/SE_voting.

Conclusion:The analysis of feature importance indicates that Mismatch accounts for the highest proportion among the top 20 important features.

About the authors

Han Cheng

School of Science, Dalian Maritime University

Email: info@benthamscience.net

Shumei Ding

School of Science,, Dalian Maritime University

Email: info@benthamscience.net

Cangzhi Jia

School of Science, Dalian Maritime University

Author for correspondence.
Email: info@benthamscience.net

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