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Despite major efforts to develop accurate enhancer prediction methods, identifying enhancer sequences continues to be a challenge in the annotation of mammalian genomes. One of the major issues is the lack of large, sufficiently comprehensive and experimentally validated enhancers for humans or other species. Thus, the development of computational methods based on limited experimentally validated enhancers and deciphering the transcriptional regulatory code encoded in the enhancer sequences is urgent.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>We present a deep-learning-based hybrid architecture, BiRen, which predicts enhancers using the DNA sequence alone. Our results demonstrate that BiRen can learn common enhancer patterns directly from the DNA sequence and exhibits superior accuracy, robustness and generalizability in enhancer prediction relative to other state-of-the-art enhancer predictors based on sequence characteristics. Our BiRen will enable researchers to acquire a deeper understanding of the regulatory code of enhancer sequences.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Availability and Implementation<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>Our BiRen method can be freely accessed at https:\/\/github.com\/wenjiegroup\/BiRen.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Supplementary information<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1093\/bioinformatics\/btx105","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2017,2,16]],"date-time":"2017-02-16T21:28:08Z","timestamp":1487280488000},"page":"1930-1936","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":136,"title":["BiRen: predicting enhancers with a deep-learning-based model using the DNA sequence alone"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"33","author":[{"given":"Bite","family":"Yang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Biotechnology, Beijing Institute of Radiation Medicine, Beijing, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Feng","family":"Liu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Biotechnology, Beijing Institute of Radiation Medicine, Beijing, China"},{"name":"Department of Information, The 188th Hospital of Chaozhou, Chaozhou, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Chao","family":"Ren","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Biotechnology, Beijing Institute of Radiation Medicine, Beijing, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Zhangyi","family":"Ouyang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Biotechnology, Beijing Institute of Radiation Medicine, Beijing, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Ziwei","family":"Xie","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Biomedical Engineering, College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Xiaochen","family":"Bo","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Biotechnology, Beijing Institute of Radiation Medicine, Beijing, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Wenjie","family":"Shu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Biotechnology, Beijing Institute of Radiation Medicine, Beijing, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"286","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2017,2,17]]},"reference":[{"key":"2023020206012446900_btx105-B1","article-title":"Neural machine translation by jointly learning to align and translate","author":"Bahdanau","year":"2014","journal-title":"Comput. 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