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ReviewComputational and structural biotechnology journal2021

Representation learning applications in biological sequence analysis.

Hitoshi Iuchi, Taro Matsutani, Keisuke Yamada, Natsuki Iwano, Shunsuke Sumi, Shion Hosoda, Shitao Zhao, Tsukasa Fukunaga, Michiaki Hamada

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Review in Computational and structural biotechnology journal, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 39 papers.

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39citing papers in PubMed
5.4field-weighted citation impact, top 3% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

39 citing papers in PubMed, 89 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Hitoshi IuchiWaseda Research Institute for Science and Engineering, Waseda University, Tokyo 169-8555, Japan.
Taro MatsutaniComputational Bio Big-Data Open Innovation Laboratory (CBBD-OIL), National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tokyo 169-8555, Japan.
Keisuke YamadaSchool of Advanced Science and Engineering, Waseda University, Tokyo 169-8555, Japan.
Natsuki IwanoGraduate School of Advanced Science and Engineering, Waseda University, Tokyo 169-8555, Japan.
Shunsuke SumiGraduate School of Advanced Science and Engineering, Waseda University, Tokyo 169-8555, Japan.
Shion HosodaComputational Bio Big-Data Open Innovation Laboratory (CBBD-OIL), National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tokyo 169-8555, Japan.
Shitao ZhaoWaseda Research Institute for Science and Engineering, Waseda University, Tokyo 169-8555, Japan.
Tsukasa FukunagaWaseda Institute for Advanced Study, Waseda University, Tokyo 169-0051, Japan.
Michiaki HamadaComputational Bio Big-Data Open Innovation Laboratory (CBBD-OIL), National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tokyo 169-8555, Japan.
Waseda University · JP

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Although remarkable advances have been reported in high-throughput sequencing, the ability to aptly analyze a substantial amount of rapidly generated biological (DNA/RNA/protein) sequencing data remains a critical hurdle. To tackle this issue, the application of natural language processing (NLP) to biological sequence analysis has received increased attention. In this method, biological sequences are regarded as sentences while the single nucleic acids/amino acids or k-mers in these sequences represent the words. Embedding is an essential step in NLP, which performs the conversion of these words into vectors. Specifically, representation learning is an approach used for this transformation process, which can be applied to biological sequences. Vectorized biological sequences can then be applied for function and structure estimation, or as input for other probabilistic models. Considering the importance and growing trend for the application of representation learning to biological research, in the present study, we have reviewed the existing knowledge in representation learning for biological sequence analysis.

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BERTNatural language processingRepresentation learningSequence analysisWord2vec

Identifiers

PMID34141139
PMCPMC8190442
OpenAlexW3164264961

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