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Thanks to the development of cross-linked immunoprecipitation sequencing technology, large amounts of genome-wide circRNA binding event data have accumulated, providing opportunities for designing high-performance computational models to discriminate RBP interaction sites and thus to interpret the biological significance of circRNAs. Unfortunately, there are still no computational models sufficiently flexible to accommodate circRNAs from different data scales and with various degrees of feature representation. Here, we present HCRNet, a novel end-to-end framework for identification of circRNA-RBP binding events. To capture the hierarchical relationships, the multi-source biological information is fused to represent circRNAs, including various natural language sequence features. Furthermore, a deep temporal convolutional network incorporating global expectation pooling was developed to exploit the latent nucleotide dependencies in an exhaustive manner. We benchmarked HCRNet on 37 circRNA datasets and 31 linear RNA datasets to demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed method. To evaluate further the model\u2019s robustness, we performed HCRNet on a full-length dataset containing 740 circRNAs. Results indicate that HCRNet generally outperforms existing methods. In addition, motif analyses were conducted to exhibit the interpretability of HCRNet on circRNAs. All supporting source code and data can be downloaded from https:\/\/github.com\/yangyn533\/HCRNet and https:\/\/doi.org\/10.6084\/m9.figshare.16943722.v1. 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