Title
Prediction of binding miRNAs involved with immune genes to the SARS-CoV-2 by using sequence features extraction and One-class SVM
Date Issued
01 January 2022
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Publisher(s)
Elsevier Ltd
Abstract
The prediction of host human miRNA binding to the SARS-COV-2-CoV-2 RNA sequence is of particular interest. This biological process could lead to virus repression, serve as biomarkers for diagnosis, or as potential treatments for this disease. One source of concern is attempting to uncover the viral regions in which this binding could occur, as well as how these miRNAs binding could affect the SARS-COV-2 virus's processes. Using extracted sequence features from this base pairing, we predicted the relationships between miRNAs that interact with genes involved in immune function and bind to the SARS-COV-2 genome in their 5′ UTR region. We compared two supervised models, SVM and Random Forest, with an unsupervised One-Class SVM. When the results of the confusion matrices were inspected, the results of the supervised models were misleading, resulting in a Type II error. However, with the latter model, we achieved an average accuracy of 92%, sensitivity of 96.18%, and specificity of 78%. We hypothesize that studying the bind of miRNAs that affect immunological genes and bind to the SARS-COV-2 virus will lead to potential genetic therapies for fighting the disease or understanding how the immune system is affected when this type of viral infection occurs.
Volume
30
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Biotecnología médica
Ingeniería médica
Inmunología
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85129982354
Source
Informatics in Medicine Unlocked
ISSN of the container
23529148
Source funding
National Research Foundation
Sponsor(s)
Programa de Apoyo a la Educación Terciaria
Fundación Nacional de Investigación
Sources of information:
Directorio de Producción Científica
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