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Accurate prediction of the nucleic acid binding residues in proteins will facilitate the research of the protein functions, gene expression, drug design, etc. In this regard, several computational methods have been proposed to predict the nucleic acid binding residues in proteins. However, these methods cannot satisfactorily measure the global interactions among the residues along protein. Furthermore, these methods are suffering cross-prediction problem, new strategies should be explored to solve this problem. In this study, a new computational method called NCBRPred was proposed to predict the nucleic acid binding residues based on the multilabel sequence labeling model. NCBRPred used the bidirectional Gated Recurrent Units (BiGRUs) to capture the global interactions among the residues, and treats this task as a multilabel learning task. 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