TY - GEN
T1 - Modeling of replicates variances for detecting RNA methylation site in MERIP-SEQ data
AU - Cui, Xiaodong
AU - Meng, Jia
AU - Zhang, Shaowu
AU - Huang, Yufei
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 IEEE.
PY - 2015/8/31
Y1 - 2015/8/31
N2 - The recent advent of the state-of-Art high throughput sequencing technology, known as Methylated RNA immunoprecipitation (IP) sequencing (MeRIP-Seq), provided the biologists the first global view of epigenetic modifications on the transcriptome at a high resolution. However, novel and more sophisticated statistical computational methods are needed to detect methylation sites from MeRIP-Seq. Here, we propose a mixture of Beta-binomial model for mathematically modeling the data variance of replicates in the MeRIP-Seq. An Expectation-Maximization algorithm is derived to learn the model parameters and perform site detection. To illustrate the utility of our model, it is evaluated on simulated datasets and a real MeRIP-Seq data for N6-Methyladenosine (m6A) methylation. The results show that the model has a higher sensitivity and specificity under various variance conditions than previous methods, demonstrating its robustness on the MeRIP-Seq data.
AB - The recent advent of the state-of-Art high throughput sequencing technology, known as Methylated RNA immunoprecipitation (IP) sequencing (MeRIP-Seq), provided the biologists the first global view of epigenetic modifications on the transcriptome at a high resolution. However, novel and more sophisticated statistical computational methods are needed to detect methylation sites from MeRIP-Seq. Here, we propose a mixture of Beta-binomial model for mathematically modeling the data variance of replicates in the MeRIP-Seq. An Expectation-Maximization algorithm is derived to learn the model parameters and perform site detection. To illustrate the utility of our model, it is evaluated on simulated datasets and a real MeRIP-Seq data for N6-Methyladenosine (m6A) methylation. The results show that the model has a higher sensitivity and specificity under various variance conditions than previous methods, demonstrating its robustness on the MeRIP-Seq data.
KW - MeRIP-Seq
KW - RNA methylation
KW - graphical model
KW - mixture Beta-binomial
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84957572334&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/ChinaSIP.2015.7230515
DO - 10.1109/ChinaSIP.2015.7230515
M3 - Conference Proceeding
AN - SCOPUS:84957572334
T3 - 2015 IEEE China Summit and International Conference on Signal and Information Processing, ChinaSIP 2015 - Proceedings
SP - 802
EP - 806
BT - 2015 IEEE China Summit and International Conference on Signal and Information Processing, ChinaSIP 2015 - Proceedings
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - IEEE China Summit and International Conference on Signal and Information Processing, ChinaSIP 2015
Y2 - 12 July 2015 through 15 July 2015
ER -