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The circular structure arises from a non-canonical splicing process, where the donor site backspliced to an upstream acceptor site. These circRNA sequences are conserved across species. More importantly, rising evidence suggests their vital roles in gene regulation and association with diseases. As the fundamental effort toward elucidating their functions and mechanisms, several computational methods have been proposed to predict the circular structure from the primary sequence. Recently, advanced computational methods leverage deep learning to capture the relevant patterns from RNA sequences and model their interactions to facilitate the prediction. However, these methods fail to fully explore positional information of splice junctions and their deep interaction.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>We present a robust end-to-end framework, Junction Encoder with Deep Interaction (JEDI), for circRNA prediction using only nucleotide sequences. JEDI first leverages the attention mechanism to encode each junction site based on deep bidirectional recurrent neural networks and then presents the novel cross-attention layer to model deep interaction among these sites for backsplicing. Finally, JEDI can not only predict circRNAs but also interpret relationships among splice sites to discover backsplicing hotspots within a gene region. Experiments demonstrate JEDI significantly outperforms state-of-the-art approaches in circRNA prediction on both isoform level and gene level. 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