Table 5 Performance Comparison with other Methods in literature (with different dataset used in the proposed work).

From: Sequence based prediction of enhancer regions from DNA random walk

Authors

Datasets used

Features used

Method used

AUC/Accuracy (Acc)

Bu, H., Gan, Y., Wang, Y., Zhou, S., & Guan, J.25 EnhancerDBN25

Histone modification

DNA sequence compositional

features, DNA methylation (GC content and DNA methylation)

Deep Belief Network

Acc 92.0%

Yang, B., Liu, F., Ren, C., Ouyang, Z., Xie, Z., Bo, X., & Shu, W.8 BiRen8

Human and mouse noncoding fragments in the VISTA Enhancer Browser

DNA sequence alone

Deep-learning-based hybrid

architecture that integrates a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) and a GRU-BRNN

AUC 0.956

Liu, F., Li, H., Ren, C., Bo, X., & Shu, W.10. PEDLA10

Histone modifications (ChIPSeq),

TFs and cofactors (ChIP-Seq), chromatin accessibility (DNase-Seq), transcription (RNA-Seq), DNA methylation

(RRBS), CpG islands, evolutionary conservation, sequence signatures, and occupancy of TFBS.

1,114-dimensional

heterogeneous features in H1 cells, 22 training cell types/tissues

Deep learning

Acc 97.65%

Kim, S. G., Harwani, M., Grama, A., & Chaterji, S.11. EP-DNN11

Chromatin features

p300 binding sites, as enhancers, and TSS and random non-DHS sites, as non-enhancers. We perform same-cell and cross-cell predictions to quantify the validation rate and compare against two state-of-the-art methods, DEEP-ENCODE and RFECS

Deep neural network (DNN)

Acc 91.6%

Liu, B., Fang, L., Long, R., Lan, X., & Chou, K. C.15 iEnhancer-2L15

Chromatin state information of nine cell lines, including H1ES, K562, GM12878, HepG2, HUVEC, HSMM, NHLF, NHEK and HMEC

Physical structural

property of inucleotide (Rise P1, Roll P2, Shift P3, Slide P4, Tilt P5, Twist p6)

SVM classification with RBF kernel function

Acc 76.89%,

AUC 0.85

Kleftogiannis, D., Kalnis, P., & Bajic, V. B.9 DEEP9

Histone modification marks

Sequence characteristics

Ensemble SVM

Acc 90.2%

Rajagopal, N., Xie, W., Li, Y., Wagner, U., Wang, W., Stamatoyannopoulos, J., & Ren, B.12, RFECS12

24 Histone modifications in two distinct human cell types, embryonic stem cells and lung fibroblasts

(H1 and IMR90 datasets)

p300 ENCODE data in H1

and made enhancer predictions in 12 ENCODE cell-types using the

three marks H3K4me1, H3K4me3 and H3K27ac

Multiple chromatin marks

Random forests

Acc 95%

Fernandez, M., & Miranda-Saavedra, D.23 ChromaGenSVM23

Histone epigenetic marks

Optimum combination of Epigenetic profiles

computed at various

window sizes (1, 2.5, 5, 7.5, 10, 12.5 and 15 kb).

Genetic algorithm optimized Support vector machines

Acc 85.1% AUC 0.966

Proposed method

VISTA Enhancer Browser (experimentally validated hg19)

K-mer frequency, Statistical and Non-linear features (sd, dfa, hurst, sampan, ac, rvntsl, ac_200, ac_300)

Ensemble Method (Bagged Tree)

Acc 93.3%, AUC 0.91 on test data from VISTA Enhancer Browser