Motivation
Transcription factor binding sites (TFBSs) prediction is a crucial step in revealing functions of transcription factors (TFs) from high-throughput sequencing data. Assay for Transposase-Accessible Chromatin using sequencing (ATAC-seq) provides insight on TFBSs and nucleosome positioning by probing open chromatic, which can simultaneously reveal multiple TFBSs compare to traditional technologies. The existing tools based on convolutional neural network (CNN) only find the fixed length of TFBSs from ATAC-seq data. Graph neural network (GNN) can be considered as the extension of CNN, which has great potential in finding multiple TFBSs with different lengths from ATAC-seq data.
Results
We develop a motif predictor called MMGraph based on three-layer GNN and coexisting probability of k-mers for finding multiple motifs from ATAC-seq data. The results of the experiment which has been conducted on 88 ATAC-seq datasets indicate that MMGraph has achieved the best performance on area of eight metrics radar (AEMR) score of 2.31 and could find 207 higher quality multiple motifs than other existing tools.
Availability
MMGraph is wrapped in Python package, which is available at https://github.com/zhangsq06/MMGraph.git
Supplementary information
Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
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