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ArticleNucleic acids research2025

Methyl-GP: accurate generic DNA methylation prediction based on a language model and representation learning.

Hao Xie, Leyao Wang, Yuqing Qian, Yijie Ding, Fei Guo

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Article in Nucleic acids research, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 27 papers.

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Hao XieSchool of Computer Science and Engineering, Central South University, Hunan, Changsha 410000, China.ORCID 0009-0000-3374-9980
Leyao WangCollege of Intelligence and Computing, Tianjin University, Tianjin, Tianjin 300350, China.
Yuqing QianInstitute of Fundamental and Frontier Sciences, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Sichuan, Chengdu 610054, China.
Yijie DingYangtze Delta Region Institute (Quzhou), University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Zhejiang, Quzhou 324000, China.ORCID 0000-0002-3438-9259
Fei GuoSchool of Computer Science and Engineering, Central South University, Hunan, Changsha 410000, China.ORCID 0000-0001-8346-0798

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Central South UniversityMunicipal Government of Quzhou 2023D038National Natural Science Foundation of China 62322215Natural Science Foundation of China LY23F020003
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Accurate prediction of DNA methylation remains a challenge. Identifying DNA methylation is important for understanding its functions and elucidating its role in gene regulation mechanisms. In this study, we propose Methyl-GP, a general predictor that accurately predicts three types of DNA methylation from DNA sequences. We found that the conservation of sequence patterns among different species contributes to enhancing the generalizability of the model. By fine-tuning a language model on a dataset comprising multiple species with similar sequence patterns and employing a fusion module to integrate embeddings into a high-quality comprehensive representation, Methyl-GP demonstrates satisfactory predictive performance in methylation identification. Experiments on 17 benchmark datasets for three types of DNA methylation (4mC, 5hmC, and 6mA) demonstrate the superiority of Methyl-GP over existing predictors. Furthermore, by utilizing the attention mechanism, we have visualized the sequence patterns learned by the model, which may help us to gain a deeper understanding of methylation patterns across various species.

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