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Record W4408260879 · doi:10.1016/j.ab.2025.115828

DHUpredET: A comparative computational approach for identification of dihydrouridine modification sites in RNA sequence

2025· article· en· W4408260879 on OpenAlexafffund
Md. Fahim Sultan, Tasmin Karim, Md. Shazzad Hossain Shaon, Sayed Mehedi Azim, Abdollah Dehzangi, Mst Shapna Akter, Sobhy M. Ibrahim, Md. Mamun Ali, Kawsar Ahmed, Francis M. Bui

Bibliographic record

VenueAnalytical Biochemistry · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
TopicRNA modifications and cancer
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Saskatchewan
FundersNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of CanadaKing Saud University
KeywordsSequence (biology)Identification (biology)Computational biologyRNAComputer scienceBiologyBiochemistryEcologyGene

Abstract

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Laboratory-based detection of D sites is laborious and expensive. In this study, we developed effective machine learning models employing efficient feature encoding methods to identify D sites. Initially, we explored various state-of-the-art feature encoding approaches and 30 machine learning techniques for each and selected the top eight models based on their independent testing and cross-validation outcomes. Finally, we developed DHUpredET using the extra tree classifier methods for predicting DHU sites. The DHUpredET model demonstrated balanced performance across all evaluation criteria, outperforming state-of-the-art models by 8% and 14% in terms of accuracy and sensitivity, respectively, on an independent test set. Further analysis revealed that the model achieved higher accuracy with position-specific two nucleotide (PS2) features, leading us to conclude that PS2 features are the best suited for the DHUpredET model. Therefore, our proposed model emerges as the most favorite choice for predicting D sites. In addition, we conducted an in-depth analysis of local features and identified a particularly significant attribute with a feature score of 0.035 for PS2_299 attributes. This tool holds immense promise as an advantageous instrument for accelerating the discovery of D modification sites, which contributes too many targeting therapeutic and understanding RNA structure. • Executed an in-depth analysis employing various machine learning techniques. • Uncovered the most informative features and optimal machine-learning algorithms for predicting D sites in RNA sequences. • Proposed DHUpredET, a machine learning-based method than can significantly outperform previous studies found in the literature. • Exceled at leveraging position-specific two nucleotides (PS2) features with appropriate execution. • Identified the positive class with greater than 85% and specified the negative class with more than 82% accuracy, which produces a balance outcome.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.005
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: Simulation or modeling
GenreCandidate signal: Methods · Consensus signal: Methods
Teacher disagreement score0.005
Threshold uncertainty score0.015

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.005
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.002
Bibliometrics0.0020.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0010.001
Open science0.0020.001
Research integrity0.0010.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0040.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.044
GPT teacher head0.353
Teacher spread0.310 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designSimulation or modeling
Domainnot available
GenreMethods

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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