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. 2022 Jul 25;16:26. doi: 10.1186/s40246-022-00396-x

Table 6.

Deep learning algorithms in genomics and their original development and applications

ANN Algorithms Natural Language Processing (NLP) Feedforward neural network Convolutional neural network (CNN) Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) Bidirectional long short-term memory networks (BLSTMs) Long short-term memory networks (LSTMs) Gated recurrent unit (GRU)
Algorithm Inventor Applied in dictionary look-up system developed at Birkbeck College, London Frank Rosenblatt It was named as “neocognitron “ by Fukushima Rumelhart, Hinton and Williams Schuster and Paliwal Hochreiter and Schmidhuber Cho et al
Year of Development 1948 1958 1980 1986 1997 1997 2014
Year of Initial Genomics’ Function 1996 1993 2015 2005 2015 2015 2017
First User in Genomics Schuler et al S Eskiizmililer Alipanahi et al Maraziotis, Dragomir and Bezerianos Quang and Xie Quang and Xie Angermueller et al
First Genomic Application Entrez databases Karyotyping architecture based on Artificial Neural Networks DeepBind Predicting the complicated causative associations between genes from microarray datasets based on recurrent neuro-fuzzy technique DanQ model DanQ model DeepCpG
Genomic Function Exemplar(s) Genetic counsellors AI-based chatbots and EPIs prediction Karyotyping, Prenatal diagnostic for early detection of aneuploidy syndrome Prediction of variant impacts on expression and disease risk, predicting drug response of tumours from genomic profiles, and pharmacogenomics Predicting transcription factor binding sites, for Alignment and SNV identification DNA function predictions and prediction of protein localisation, predict miRNA precursor Enhancer–promoter interaction (EPI) prediction Enhancers and methylation states predictions
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