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Lu P, Wu J, Zhang W. Identifying circRNA-disease association based on relational graph attention network and hypergraph attention network. Anal Biochem 2024; 694:115628. [PMID: 39069246 DOI: 10.1016/j.ab.2024.115628] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/20/2024] [Revised: 07/11/2024] [Accepted: 07/18/2024] [Indexed: 07/30/2024]
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In recent years, with the in-depth study of circRNA, scholars have begun to discover a synergistic relationship between circRNA and microorganisms. Traditional wet lab experiments in biology require expensive financial, material, and human resources to investigate the relationship between circRNA and diseases. Therefore, we propose a new predictive model for inferring the association between circRNA and diseases, called HAGACDA. Specifically, we first aggregate the unique features of circRNA and diseases themselves through singular value decomposition, Pearson similarity, and the biological information characteristics of circRNA and diseases. Utilizing the competitive relationships between miRNA and other microorganisms, we construct a circRNA-miRNA-disease multi-source heterogeneous network. Subsequently, we use a relational graph attention network to aggregate features based on the structural connections between different nodes. To address the inherent limitations in capturing high-order patterns in edge sets, we integrate a hypergraph attention network to extract features of circRNA and diseases. Finally, association prediction scores for node pairs are obtained through a multilayer perceptron. We conducted a comprehensive analysis of the model, including comparative experiments and case studies. Experimental results demonstrate that our model accurately predicts the association between circRNA and diseases.
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- PengLi Lu
- School of Computer and Communication, Lanzhou University of Technology, Lanzhou, 730050, Gansu, PR China.
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- School of Computer and Communication, Lanzhou University of Technology, Lanzhou, 730050, Gansu, PR China
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- School of Computer and Communication, Lanzhou University of Technology, Lanzhou, 730050, Gansu, PR China
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Wu J, Lu P, Zhang W. Predicting associations between CircRNA and diseases through structure-aware graph transformer and path-integral convolution. Anal Biochem 2024; 692:115554. [PMID: 38710353 DOI: 10.1016/j.ab.2024.115554] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/03/2024] [Revised: 04/27/2024] [Accepted: 04/30/2024] [Indexed: 05/08/2024]
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A series of biological experiments has demonstrated that circular RNAs play a crucial regulatory role in cellular processes and may be potentially associated with diseases. Uncovering these connections helps in understanding potential disease mechanisms and advancing the development of treatment strategies. However, in biology, traditional experiments face limitations in terms of efficiency and cost, especially when enumerating possible associations. To address these limitations, several computational methods have been proposed, but existing methods only measure from a nodal perspective and cannot capture structural similarities between edges. In this study, we introduce an advanced computational method called SATPIC2CD for analyzing potential associations between circular RNAs and diseases. Specifically, we first employ an Structure-Aware Graph Transformer (SAT), which extracts five predefined metapath representations before calculating attention. This adaptive network integrates structural information into the original self-attention by aggregating information within and between paths. Subsequently, we use Path Integral Convolutional Networks (PACN) to integrate feature information for all path weights between two nodes. Afterward, we complement the network node features with feature loss and feature smoothing using Gated Recurrent Units (GRU) and node centrality. Finally, a Multi-Layer Perceptron (MLP) is employed to obtain the ultimate prediction scores for each circular RNA-disease pair. SATPIC2CD performs remarkably well, with an accuracy of up to 0.9715 measured by the Area Under the Curve (AUC) in a 5-fold cross-validation, surpassing other comparative models. Case studies further emphasize the high precision of our method in identifying circular RNA-disease associations, laying a solid foundation for guiding future biological research efforts.
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- Jinkai Wu
- School of Computer and Communication, Lanzhou University of Technology, Lanzhou, 730050, Gansu, PR China
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- School of Computer and Communication, Lanzhou University of Technology, Lanzhou, 730050, Gansu, PR China.
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- School of Computer and Communication, Lanzhou University of Technology, Lanzhou, 730050, Gansu, PR China
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Salooja CM, Sanker A, Deepthi K, Jereesh AS. An ensemble approach for circular RNA-disease association prediction using variational autoencoder and genetic algorithm. J Bioinform Comput Biol 2024; 22:2450018. [PMID: 39215523 DOI: 10.1142/s0219720024500185] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 09/04/2024]
Abstract
Circular RNAs (circRNAs) are endogenous non-coding RNAs with a covalently closed loop structure. They have many biological functions, mainly regulatory ones. They have been proven to modulate protein-coding genes in the human genome. CircRNAs are linked to various diseases like Alzheimer's disease, diabetes, atherosclerosis, Parkinson's disease and cancer. Identifying the associations between circular RNAs and diseases is essential for disease diagnosis, prevention, and treatment. The proposed model, based on the variational autoencoder and genetic algorithm circular RNA disease association (VAGA-CDA), predicts novel circRNA-disease associations. First, the experimentally verified circRNA-disease associations are augmented with the synthetic minority oversampling technique (SMOTE) and regenerated using a variational autoencoder, and feature selection is applied to these vectors by a genetic algorithm (GA). The variational autoencoder effectively extracts features from the augmented samples. The optimized feature selection of the genetic algorithm effectively carried out dimensionality reduction. The sophisticated feature vectors extracted are then given to a Random Forest classifier to predict new circRNA-disease associations. The proposed model yields an AUC value of 0.9644 and 0.9628 under 5-fold and 10-fold cross-validations, respectively. The results of the case studies indicate the robustness of the proposed model.
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- C M Salooja
- Bioinformatics Lab, Department of Computer Science, Cochin University of Science and Technology, Kerala-682022, India
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- Bioinformatics Lab, Department of Computer Science, Cochin University of Science and Technology, Kerala-682022, India
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- Department of Computer Science, Central University of Kerala (Central Govt. of India), Kerala-671316, India
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- Bioinformatics Lab, Department of Computer Science, Cochin University of Science and Technology, Kerala-682022, India
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Zhang Y, Wang Z, Wei H, Chen M. Exploring potential circRNA biomarkers for cancers based on double-line heterogeneous graph representation learning. BMC Med Inform Decis Mak 2024; 24:159. [PMID: 38844961 PMCID: PMC11157868 DOI: 10.1186/s12911-024-02564-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/10/2024] [Accepted: 06/04/2024] [Indexed: 06/09/2024] Open
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BACKGROUND Compared with the time-consuming and labor-intensive for biological validation in vitro or in vivo, the computational models can provide high-quality and purposeful candidates in an instant. Existing computational models face limitations in effectively utilizing sparse local structural information for accurate predictions in circRNA-disease associations. This study addresses this challenge with a proposed method, CDA-DGRL (Prediction of CircRNA-Disease Association based on Double-line Graph Representation Learning), which employs a deep learning framework leveraging graph networks and a dual-line representation model integrating graph node features. METHOD CDA-DGRL comprises several key steps: initially, the integration of diverse biological information to compute integrated similarities among circRNAs and diseases, leading to the construction of a heterogeneous network specific to circRNA-disease associations. Subsequently, circRNA and disease node features are derived using sparse autoencoders. Thirdly, a graph convolutional neural network is employed to capture the local graph network structure by inputting the circRNA-disease heterogeneous network alongside node features. Fourthly, the utilization of node2vec facilitates depth-first sampling of the circRNA-disease heterogeneous network to grasp the global graph network structure, addressing issues associated with sparse raw data. Finally, the fusion of local and global graph network structures is inputted into an extra trees classifier to identify potential circRNA-disease associations. RESULTS The results, obtained through a rigorous five-fold cross-validation on the circR2Disease dataset, demonstrate the superiority of CDA-DGRL with an AUC value of 0.9866 and an AUPR value of 0.9897 compared to existing state-of-the-art models. Notably, the hyper-random tree classifier employed in this model outperforms other machine learning classifiers. CONCLUSION Thus, CDA-DGRL stands as a promising methodology for reliably identifying circRNA-disease associations, offering potential avenues to alleviate the necessity for extensive traditional biological experiments. The source code and data for this study are available at https://github.com/zywait/CDA-DGRL .
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- Yi Zhang
- School of Computer Science and Engineering, Guilin University of Technology, Guilin, 541004, China
- Guangxi Key Laboratory of Embedded Technology and Intelligent System, Guilin University of Technology, Guilin, 541004, China
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- School of Big Data, Guangxi Vocational and Technical College, Nanning, 530003, China.
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- Pharmacy School, Guilin Medical University, Guilin, 541004, China
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- School of Computer Science and Technology, Hunan Institute of Technology, Hengyang, 421010, China
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Wang Y, Lu P. GEHGAN: CircRNA-disease association prediction via graph embedding and heterogeneous graph attention network. Comput Biol Chem 2024; 110:108079. [PMID: 38704917 DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiolchem.2024.108079] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/23/2024] [Revised: 04/03/2024] [Accepted: 04/16/2024] [Indexed: 05/07/2024]
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There is growing proof suggested that circRNAs play a crucial function in diverse important biological reactions related to human diseases. Within the area of biochemistry, a massive range of wet experiments have been carried out to find out the connections of circRNA-disease in recent years. Since wet experiments are expensive and laborious, nowadays, calculation-based solutions have increasingly attracted the attention of researchers. However, the performance of these methods is restricted due to the inability to balance the distribution among various types of nodes. To remedy the problem, we present a novel computational method called GEHGAN to forecast the new relationships in this research, leveraging graph embedding and heterogeneous graph attention networks. Firstly, we calculate circRNA sequences similarity, circRNA RBP similarity, disease semantic similarity and corresponding GIP kernel similarity to construct heterogeneous graph. Secondly, a graph embedding method using random walks with jump and stay strategies is applied to obtain the preliminary embeddings of circRNAs and diseases, greatly improving the performance of the model. Thirdly, a multi-head graph attention network is employed to further update the embeddings, followed by the employment of the MLP as a predictor. As a result, the five-fold cross-validation indicates that GEHGAN achieves an outstanding AUC score of 0.9829 and an AUPR value of 0.9815 on the CircR2Diseasev2.0 database, and case studies on osteosarcoma, gastric and colorectal neoplasms further confirm the model's efficacy at identifying circRNA-disease correlations.
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- Yuehao Wang
- School of Computer and Communication, Lanzhou University of Technology, Lanzhou, 730050, Gansu, PR China.
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- School of Computer and Communication, Lanzhou University of Technology, Lanzhou, 730050, Gansu, PR China.
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Chen Q, Qiu J, Lan W, Cao J. Similarity-guided graph contrastive learning for lncRNA-disease association prediction. J Mol Biol 2024:168609. [PMID: 38750722 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2024.168609] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/26/2024] [Revised: 04/30/2024] [Accepted: 05/08/2024] [Indexed: 05/21/2024]
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The increasing research evidence indicates that long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) play important roles in regulating biological processes and are closely associated with many human diseases. Computational methods have emerged as indispensable tools for identifying associations between long non-coding RNA (lncRNA) and diseases, primarily due to the time-consuming and costly nature of traditional biological experiments. Given the scarcity of verified lncRNA-disease associations, the intensifying focus on deep learning is playing a crucial role in refining the accuracy of predictive models. Moreover, the contrastive learning method exhibits a clear advantage in situations where data is scarce or annotation costs are high. In this paper, we leverage the advantages of graph neural networks and contrastive learning to innovatively propose a similarity-guided graph contrastive learning (SGGCL) model for predicting lncRNA-disease associations. In the SGGCL model, we employ a novel similarity-guided graph data augmentation method to generate high-quality positive and negative sample pairs, addressing the scarcity of verified data. Additionally, we utilize the RWR algorithm and a graph convolutional neural network for contrastive learning, facilitating the capture of global topology and high-level node embeddings. The experimental results on several datasets demonstrate the superior predictive performance and scalability of our method in lncRNA-disease association prediction compared to state-of-the-art methods.
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- Qingfeng Chen
- School of Computer, Electronics and Information, Guangxi University, Nanning 530004, Guangxi, China
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- School of Computer, Electronics and Information, Guangxi University, Nanning 530004, Guangxi, China
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- School of Computer, Electronics and Information, Guangxi University, Nanning 530004, Guangxi, China
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- College of Life Science and Technology, Guangxi University, Nanning 530004, Guangxi, China.
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Wang W, Han P, Li Z, Nie R, Wang K, Wang L, Liao H. LMGATCDA: Graph Neural Network With Labeling Trick for Predicting circRNA-Disease Associations. IEEE/ACM TRANSACTIONS ON COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY AND BIOINFORMATICS 2024; 21:289-300. [PMID: 38231821 DOI: 10.1109/tcbb.2024.3355093] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2024]
Abstract
Previous studies have proven that circular RNAs (circRNAs) are inextricably connected to the etiology and pathophysiology of complicated diseases. Since conventional biological research are frequently small-scale, expensive, and time-consuming, it is essential to establish an efficient and reasonable computation-based method to identify disease-related circRNAs. In this article, we proposed a novel ensemble model for predicting probable circRNA-disease associations based on multi-source similarity information(LMGATCDA). In particular, LMGATCDA first incorporates information on circRNA functional similarity, disease semantic similarity, and the Gaussian interaction profile (GIP) kernel similarity as explicit features, along with node-labeling of the three-hop subgraphs extracted from each linked target node as graph structural features. After that, the fused features are used as input, and further implied features are extracted by graph sampling aggregation (GraphSAGE) and multi-hop attention graph neural network (MAGNA). Finally, the prediction scores are obtained through a fully connected layer. With five-fold cross-validation, LMGATCDA demonstrated excellent competitiveness against gold standard data, reaching 95.37% accuracy and 91.31% recall with an AUC of 94.25% on the circR2Disease benchmark dataset. Collectively, the noteworthy findings from these case studies support our conclusion that the LMGATCDA model can provide reliable circRNA-disease associations for clinical research while helping to mitigate experimental uncertainties in wet-lab investigations.
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Lu P, Zhang W, Wu J. AMPCDA: Prediction of circRNA-disease associations by utilizing attention mechanisms on metapaths. Comput Biol Chem 2024; 108:107989. [PMID: 38016366 DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiolchem.2023.107989] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/16/2023] [Revised: 10/24/2023] [Accepted: 11/15/2023] [Indexed: 11/30/2023]
Abstract
Researchers have been creating an expanding corpus of experimental evidences in biomedical field which has revealed prevalent associations between circRNAs and human diseases. Such linkages unveiled afforded a new perspective for elucidating etiology and devise innovative therapeutic strategies. In recent years, many computational methods were introduced to remedy the limitations of inefficiency and exorbitant budgets brought by conventional lab-experimental approaches to enumerate possible circRNA-disease associations, but the majority of existing methods still face challenges in effectively integrating node embeddings with higher-order neighborhood representations, which might hinder the final predictive accuracy from attaining optimal measures. To overcome such constraints, we proposed AMPCDA, a computational technique harnessing predefined metapaths to predict circRNA-disease associations. Specifically, an association graph is initially built upon three source databases and two similarity derivation procedures, and DeepWalk is subsequently imposed on the graph to procure initial feature representations. Vectorial embeddings of metapath instances, concatenated by initial node features, are then fed through a customed encoder. By employing self-attention section, metapath-specific contributions to each node are accumulated before combining with node's intrinsic features and channeling into a graph attention module, which furnished the input representations for the multilayer perceptron to predict the ultimate association probability scores. By integrating graph topology features and node embedding themselves, AMPCDA managed to effectively leverage information carried by multiple nodes along paths and exhibited an exceptional predictive performance, achieving AUC values of 0.9623, 0.9675, and 0.9711 under 5-fold cross validation, 10-fold cross validation, and leave-one-out cross validation, respectively. These results signify substantial accuracy improvements compared to other prediction models. Case study assessments confirm the high predictive accuracy of our proposed technique in identifying circRNA-disease connections, highlighting its value in guiding future biological research to reveal new disease mechanisms.
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- Pengli Lu
- School of Computer and Communication, Lanzhou University of Technology, Lanzhou, 730050, Gansu, PR China.
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- School of Computer and Communication, Lanzhou University of Technology, Lanzhou, 730050, Gansu, PR China.
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- School of Computer and Communication, Lanzhou University of Technology, Lanzhou, 730050, Gansu, PR China.
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Hansen CE, Springstubbe D, Müller S, Petkovic S. Directed Circularization of a Short RNA. Methods Mol Biol 2024; 2765:209-226. [PMID: 38381342 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-0716-3678-7_12] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/22/2024]
Abstract
Basic research and functional analyses of circular RNA (circRNA) have been limited by challenges in circRNA formation of desired length and sequence in adequate yields. Nowadays, circular RNA can be obtained using enzymatic, "ribozymatic," or modulated splice events. However, there are few records for the directed circularization of RNA. Here, we present a proof of principle for an affordable and efficient RNA-based system for the controlled synthesis of circRNA with a physiological 3',5'-phosphodiester conjunction. The engineered hairpin ribozyme variant circular ribozyme 3 (CRZ-3) performs self-cleavage poorly. We designed an activator-polyamine complex to complete cleavage as a prerequisite for subsequent circularization. The developed protocol allows synthesizing circRNA without external enzymatic assistance and adds a controllable way of circularization to the existing methods.
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- University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Lübeck, Germany
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- University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Lübeck, Germany.
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Fan C, Ding M. Inferring pseudogene-MiRNA associations based on an ensemble learning framework with similarity kernel fusion. Sci Rep 2023; 13:8833. [PMID: 37258695 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-36054-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/29/2023] [Accepted: 05/28/2023] [Indexed: 06/02/2023] Open
Abstract
Accumulating evidence shows that pseudogenes can function as microRNAs (miRNAs) sponges and regulate gene expression. Mining potential interactions between pseudogenes and miRNAs will facilitate the clinical diagnosis and treatment of complex diseases. However, identifying their interactions through biological experiments is time-consuming and labor intensive. In this study, an ensemble learning framework with similarity kernel fusion is proposed to predict pseudogene-miRNA associations, named ELPMA. First, four pseudogene similarity profiles and five miRNA similarity profiles are measured based on the biological and topology properties. Subsequently, similarity kernel fusion method is used to integrate the similarity profiles. Then, the feature representation for pseudogenes and miRNAs is obtained by combining the pseudogene-pseudogene similarities, miRNA-miRNA similarities. Lastly, individual learners are performed on each training subset, and the soft voting is used to yield final decision based on the prediction results of individual learners. The k-fold cross validation is implemented to evaluate the prediction performance of ELPMA method. Besides, case studies are conducted on three investigated pseudogenes to validate the predict performance of ELPMA method for predicting pseudogene-miRNA interactions. Therefore, all experiment results show that ELPMA model is a feasible and effective tool to predict interactions between pseudogenes and miRNAs.
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- Chunyan Fan
- School of Computer Science and Engineering, Xi'an Technological University, Xi'an, 710021, China.
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- School of Computer Science, Hubei University of Technology, Wuhan, 430068, China
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Lu C, Zhang L, Zeng M, Lan W, Duan G, Wang J. Inferring disease-associated circRNAs by multi-source aggregation based on heterogeneous graph neural network. Brief Bioinform 2023; 24:6960978. [PMID: 36572658 DOI: 10.1093/bib/bbac549] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/19/2022] [Revised: 11/03/2022] [Accepted: 11/11/2022] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
Abstract
Emerging evidence has proved that circular RNAs (circRNAs) are implicated in pathogenic processes. They are regarded as promising biomarkers for diagnosis due to covalently closed loop structures. As opposed to traditional experiments, computational approaches can identify circRNA-disease associations at a lower cost. Aggregating multi-source pathogenesis data helps to alleviate data sparsity and infer potential associations at the system level. The majority of computational approaches construct a homologous network using multi-source data, but they lose the heterogeneity of the data. Effective methods that use the features of multi-source data are considered as a matter of urgency. In this paper, we propose a model (CDHGNN) based on edge-weighted graph attention and heterogeneous graph neural networks for potential circRNA-disease association prediction. The circRNA network, micro RNA network, disease network and heterogeneous network are constructed based on multi-source data. To reflect association probabilities between nodes, an edge-weighted graph attention network model is designed for node features. To assign attention weights to different types of edges and learn contextual meta-path, CDHGNN infers potential circRNA-disease association based on heterogeneous neural networks. CDHGNN outperforms state-of-the-art algorithms in terms of accuracy. Edge-weighted graph attention networks and heterogeneous graph networks have both improved performance significantly. Furthermore, case studies suggest that CDHGNN is capable of identifying specific molecular associations and investigating biomolecular regulatory relationships in pathogenesis. The code of CDHGNN is freely available at https://github.com/BioinformaticsCSU/CDHGNN.
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- Chengqian Lu
- School of Computer Science and Engineering, Central South University, Changsha, 410083, Hunan, China.,Hunan Provincial Key Lab on Bioinformatics, Central South University, Changsha, 410083, Hunan, China.,School of Computer Science, Xiangtan University, Xiangtan, 411105, Hunan, China
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- School of Computer Science and Engineering, Central South University, Changsha, 410083, Hunan, China.,Hunan Provincial Key Lab on Bioinformatics, Central South University, Changsha, 410083, Hunan, China
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- School of Computer Science and Engineering, Central South University, Changsha, 410083, Hunan, China.,Hunan Provincial Key Lab on Bioinformatics, Central South University, Changsha, 410083, Hunan, China
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- School of Computer, Electronic and Information, Guangxi University, Nanning, 530004, Guangxi, China
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- School of Computer Science and Engineering, Central South University, Changsha, 410083, Hunan, China.,Hunan Provincial Key Lab on Bioinformatics, Central South University, Changsha, 410083, Hunan, China
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- School of Computer Science and Engineering, Central South University, Changsha, 410083, Hunan, China.,Hunan Provincial Key Lab on Bioinformatics, Central South University, Changsha, 410083, Hunan, China
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Lan W, Dong Y, Zhang H, Li C, Chen Q, Liu J, Wang J, Chen YPP. Benchmarking of computational methods for predicting circRNA-disease associations. Brief Bioinform 2023; 24:6972300. [PMID: 36611256 DOI: 10.1093/bib/bbac613] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/21/2022] [Revised: 10/29/2022] [Accepted: 12/11/2022] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
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Accumulating evidences demonstrate that circular RNA (circRNA) plays an important role in human diseases. Identification of circRNA-disease associations can help for the diagnosis of human diseases, while the traditional method based on biological experiments is time-consuming. In order to address the limitation, a series of computational methods have been proposed in recent years. However, few works have summarized these methods or compared the performance of them. In this paper, we divided the existing methods into three categories: information propagation, traditional machine learning and deep learning. Then, the baseline methods in each category are introduced in detail. Further, 5 different datasets are collected, and 14 representative methods of each category are selected and compared in the 5-fold, 10-fold cross-validation and the de novo experiment. In order to further evaluate the effectiveness of these methods, six common cancers are selected to compare the number of correctly identified circRNA-disease associations in the top-10, top-20, top-50, top-100 and top-200. In addition, according to the results, the observation about the robustness and the character of these methods are concluded. Finally, the future directions and challenges are discussed.
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- Wei Lan
- School of Computer, Electronic and Information and Guangxi Key Laboratory of Multimedia Communications and Network Technology, Guangxi University, Nanning, Guangxi 530004, China
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- School of Computer, Electronic and Information and Guangxi Key Laboratory of Multimedia Communications and Network Technology, Guangxi University, Nanning, Guangxi 530004, China
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- School of Computer, Electronic and Information and Guangxi Key Laboratory of Multimedia Communications and Network Technology, Guangxi University, Nanning, Guangxi 530004, China
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- School of Computer, Electronic and Information and Guangxi Key Laboratory of Multimedia Communications and Network Technology, Guangxi University, Nanning, Guangxi 530004, China
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- School of Computer, Electronic and Information and State Key Laboratory for Conservation and Utilization of Subtropical Agro-bioresources, Guangxi University, Nanning, Guangxi 530004, China
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- Hunan Provincial Key Lab on Bioinformatics, School of Computer Science and Engineering, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan 410083, China
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- Hunan Provincial Key Lab on Bioinformatics, School of Computer Science and Engineering, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan 410083, China
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- Department of Computer Science and Information Technology, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Victoria 3086, Australia
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DRGCNCDA: Predicting circRNA-disease interactions based on knowledge graph and disentangled relational graph convolutional network. Methods 2022; 208:35-41. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ymeth.2022.10.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/12/2022] [Revised: 09/15/2022] [Accepted: 10/10/2022] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Fu Y, Yang R, Zhang L. Association prediction of CircRNAs and diseases using multi-homogeneous graphs and variational graph auto-encoder. Comput Biol Med 2022; 151:106289. [PMID: 36401973 DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2022.106289] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/18/2022] [Revised: 10/19/2022] [Accepted: 11/06/2022] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
Abstract
As a non-coding RNA molecule with closed-loop structure, circular RNA (circRNA) is tissue-specific and cell-specific in expression pattern. It regulates disease development by modulating the expression of disease-related genes. Therefore, exploring the circRNA-disease relationship can reveal the molecular mechanism of disease pathogenesis. Biological experiments for detecting circRNA-disease associations are time-consuming and laborious. Constrained by the sparsity of known circRNA-disease associations, existing algorithms cannot obtain relatively complete structural information to represent features accurately. To this end, this paper proposes a new predictor, VGAERF, combining Variational Graph Auto-Encoder (VGAE) and Random Forest (RF). Firstly, circRNA homogeneous graph structure and disease homogeneous graph structure are constructed by Gaussian interaction profile (GIP) kernel similarity, semantic similarity, and known circRNA-disease associations. VGAEs with the same structure are employed to extract the higher-order features by the encoding and decoding of input graph structures. To further increase the completeness of the network structure information, the deep features acquired from the two VGAEs are summed, and then train the RF with sparse data processing capability to perform the prediction task. On the independent test set, the Area Under ROC Curve (AUC), accuracy, and Area Under PR Curve (AUPR) of the proposed method reach up to 0.9803, 0.9345, and 0.9894, respectively. On the same dataset, the AUC, accuracy, and AUPR of VGAERF are 2.09%, 5.93%, and 1.86% higher than the best-performing method (AEDNN). It is anticipated that VGAERF will provide significant information to decipher the molecular mechanisms of circRNA-disease associations, and promote the diagnosis of circRNA-related diseases.
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- Yao Fu
- The School of Mechanical, Electrical and Information Engineering, Shandong University, Weihai, 264209, China.
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- The School of Mechanical, Electrical and Information Engineering, Shandong University, Weihai, 264209, China.
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- The School of Mechanical, Electrical and Information Engineering, Shandong University, Weihai, 264209, China.
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Chen Y, Wang J, Wang C, Liu M, Zou Q. Deep learning models for disease-associated circRNA prediction: a review. Brief Bioinform 2022; 23:6696465. [PMID: 36130259 DOI: 10.1093/bib/bbac364] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/03/2022] [Revised: 07/30/2022] [Accepted: 08/03/2022] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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Emerging evidence indicates that circular RNAs (circRNAs) can provide new insights and potential therapeutic targets for disease diagnosis and treatment. However, traditional biological experiments are expensive and time-consuming. Recently, deep learning with a more powerful ability for representation learning enables it to be a promising technology for predicting disease-associated circRNAs. In this review, we mainly introduce the most popular databases related to circRNA, and summarize three types of deep learning-based circRNA-disease associations prediction methods: feature-generation-based, type-discrimination and hybrid-based methods. We further evaluate seven representative models on benchmark with ground truth for both balance and imbalance classification tasks. In addition, we discuss the advantages and limitations of each type of method and highlight suggested applications for future research.
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- Yaojia Chen
- College of Electronics and Information Engineering Guangdong Ocean University, Zhanjiang, China and the Institute of Fundamental and Frontier Sciences, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China
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- Institute of Fundamental and Frontier Sciences, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China
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- Faculty of Computing, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China
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- College of Electronics and Information Engineering, Guangdong Ocean University, Zhanjiang, China
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- University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China
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Lan W, Dong Y, Chen Q, Liu J, Wang J, Chen YPP, Pan S. IGNSCDA: Predicting CircRNA-Disease Associations Based on Improved Graph Convolutional Network and Negative Sampling. IEEE/ACM TRANSACTIONS ON COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY AND BIOINFORMATICS 2022; 19:3530-3538. [PMID: 34506289 DOI: 10.1109/tcbb.2021.3111607] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Accumulating evidences have shown that circRNA plays an important role in human diseases. It can be used as potential biomarker for diagnose and treatment of disease. Although some computational methods have been proposed to predict circRNA-disease associations, the performance still need to be improved. In this paper, we propose a new computational model based on Improved Graph convolutional network and Negative Sampling to predict CircRNA-Disease Associations. In our method, it constructs the heterogeneous network based on known circRNA-disease associations. Then, an improved graph convolutional network is designed to obtain the feature vectors of circRNA and disease. Further, the multi-layer perceptron is employed to predict circRNA-disease associations based on the feature vectors of circRNA and disease. In addition, the negative sampling method is employed to reduce the effect of the noise samples, which selects negative samples based on circRNA's expression profile similarity and Gaussian Interaction Profile kernel similarity. The 5-fold cross validation is utilized to evaluate the performance of the method. The results show that IGNSCDA outperforms than other state-of-the-art methods in the prediction performance. Moreover, the case study shows that IGNSCDA is an effective tool for predicting potential circRNA-disease associations.
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Ryšavý P, Kléma J, Merkerová MD. circGPA: circRNA functional annotation based on probability-generating functions. BMC Bioinformatics 2022; 23:392. [PMID: 36167495 PMCID: PMC9513885 DOI: 10.1186/s12859-022-04957-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/20/2022] [Accepted: 09/21/2022] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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Recent research has already shown that circular RNAs (circRNAs) are functional in gene expression regulation and potentially related to diseases. Due to their stability, circRNAs can also be used as biomarkers for diagnosis. However, the function of most circRNAs remains unknown, and it is expensive and time-consuming to discover it through biological experiments. In this paper, we predict circRNA annotations from the knowledge of their interaction with miRNAs and subsequent miRNA-mRNA interactions. First, we construct an interaction network for a target circRNA and secondly spread the information from the network nodes with the known function to the root circRNA node. This idea itself is not new; our main contribution lies in proposing an efficient and exact deterministic procedure based on the principle of probability-generating functions to calculate the p-value of association test between a circRNA and an annotation term. We show that our publicly available algorithm is both more effective and efficient than the commonly used Monte-Carlo sampling approach that may suffer from difficult quantification of sampling convergence and subsequent sampling inefficiency. We experimentally demonstrate that the new approach is two orders of magnitude faster than the Monte-Carlo sampling, which makes summary annotation of large circRNA files feasible; this includes their reannotation after periodical interaction network updates, for example. We provide a summary annotation of a current circRNA database as one of our outputs. The proposed algorithm could be generalized towards other types of RNA in way that is straightforward.
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- Petr Ryšavý
- Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
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Dai Q, Liu Z, Wang Z, Duan X, Guo M. GraphCDA: a hybrid graph representation learning framework based on GCN and GAT for predicting disease-associated circRNAs. Brief Bioinform 2022; 23:6692549. [PMID: 36070619 DOI: 10.1093/bib/bbac379] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/03/2022] [Revised: 07/18/2022] [Accepted: 08/09/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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MOTIVATION CircularRNA (circRNA) is a class of noncoding RNA with high conservation and stability, which is considered as an important disease biomarker and drug target. Accumulating pieces of evidence have indicated that circRNA plays a crucial role in the pathogenesis and progression of many complex diseases. As the biological experiments are time-consuming and labor-intensive, developing an accurate computational prediction method has become indispensable to identify disease-related circRNAs. RESULTS We presented a hybrid graph representation learning framework, named GraphCDA, for predicting the potential circRNA-disease associations. Firstly, the circRNA-circRNA similarity network and disease-disease similarity network were constructed to characterize the relationships of circRNAs and diseases, respectively. Secondly, a hybrid graph embedding model combining Graph Convolutional Networks and Graph Attention Networks was introduced to learn the feature representations of circRNAs and diseases simultaneously. Finally, the learned representations were concatenated and employed to build the prediction model for identifying the circRNA-disease associations. A series of experimental results demonstrated that GraphCDA outperformed other state-of-the-art methods on several public databases. Moreover, GraphCDA could achieve good performance when only using a small number of known circRNA-disease associations as the training set. Besides, case studies conducted on several human diseases further confirmed the prediction capability of GraphCDA for predicting potential disease-related circRNAs. In conclusion, extensive experimental results indicated that GraphCDA could serve as a reliable tool for exploring the regulatory role of circRNAs in complex diseases.
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- Qiguo Dai
- School of Computer Science and Engineering, Dalian Minzu University, 116600, Dalian, China.,SEAC Key Laboratory of Big Data Applied Technology, Dalian Minzu University, 116600, Dalian, China
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- School of Computer Science and Engineering, Dalian Minzu University, 116600, Dalian, China.,SEAC Key Laboratory of Big Data Applied Technology, Dalian Minzu University, 116600, Dalian, China
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- SEAC Key Laboratory of Big Data Applied Technology, Dalian Minzu University, 116600, Dalian, China.,School of Computer Science and Technology, Dalian University of Technology, 116024, Dalian, China
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- SEAC Key Laboratory of Big Data Applied Technology, Dalian Minzu University, 116600, Dalian, China
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- School of Electrical and Information Engineering, Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture, 100044, Beijing, China
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Cao R, He C, Wei P, Su Y, Xia J, Zheng C. Prediction of circRNA-Disease Associations Based on the Combination of Multi-Head Graph Attention Network and Graph Convolutional Network. Biomolecules 2022; 12:biom12070932. [PMID: 35883487 PMCID: PMC9313348 DOI: 10.3390/biom12070932] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/24/2022] [Revised: 06/22/2022] [Accepted: 06/30/2022] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Circular RNAs (circRNAs) are covalently closed single-stranded RNA molecules, which have many biological functions. Previous experiments have shown that circRNAs are involved in numerous biological processes, especially regulatory functions. It has also been found that circRNAs are associated with complex diseases of human beings. Therefore, predicting the associations of circRNA with disease (called circRNA-disease associations) is useful for disease prevention, diagnosis and treatment. In this work, we propose a novel computational approach called GGCDA based on the Graph Attention Network (GAT) and Graph Convolutional Network (GCN) to predict circRNA-disease associations. Firstly, GGCDA combines circRNA sequence similarity, disease semantic similarity and corresponding Gaussian interaction profile kernel similarity, and then a random walk with restart algorithm (RWR) is used to obtain the preliminary features of circRNA and disease. Secondly, a heterogeneous graph is constructed from the known circRNA-disease association network and the calculated similarity of circRNAs and diseases. Thirdly, the multi-head Graph Attention Network (GAT) is adopted to obtain different weights of circRNA and disease features, and then GCN is employed to aggregate the features of adjacent nodes in the network and the features of the nodes themselves, so as to obtain multi-view circRNA and disease features. Finally, we combined a multi-layer fully connected neural network to predict the associations of circRNAs with diseases. In comparison with state-of-the-art methods, GGCDA can achieve AUC values of 0.9625 and 0.9485 under the results of fivefold cross-validation on two datasets, and AUC of 0.8227 on the independent test set. Case studies further demonstrate that our approach is promising for discovering potential circRNA-disease associations.
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- Ruifen Cao
- Information Materials and Intelligent Sensing Laboratory of Anhui Province, School of Computer Science and Technology, Anhui University, Hefei 230601, China;
- Correspondence: (R.C.); (C.Z.)
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- Information Materials and Intelligent Sensing Laboratory of Anhui Province, School of Computer Science and Technology, Anhui University, Hefei 230601, China;
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- Institutes of Physical Science and Information Technology, Anhui University, Hefei 230601, China; (P.W.); (J.X.)
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- School of Artificial Intelligence, Anhui University, Hefei 230601, China;
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- Institutes of Physical Science and Information Technology, Anhui University, Hefei 230601, China; (P.W.); (J.X.)
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- School of Artificial Intelligence, Anhui University, Hefei 230601, China;
- Correspondence: (R.C.); (C.Z.)
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Li G, Lin Y, Luo J, Xiao Q, Liang C. GGAECDA: predicting circRNA-disease associations using graph autoencoder based on graph representation learning. Comput Biol Chem 2022; 99:107722. [DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiolchem.2022.107722] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/26/2022] [Revised: 06/25/2022] [Accepted: 06/30/2022] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Li G, Wang D, Zhang Y, Liang C, Xiao Q, Luo J. Using Graph Attention Network and Graph Convolutional Network to Explore Human CircRNA-Disease Associations Based on Multi-Source Data. Front Genet 2022; 13:829937. [PMID: 35198012 PMCID: PMC8859418 DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2022.829937] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/06/2021] [Accepted: 01/10/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Cumulative research studies have verified that multiple circRNAs are closely associated with the pathogenic mechanism and cellular level. Exploring human circRNA-disease relationships is significant to decipher pathogenic mechanisms and provide treatment plans. At present, several computational models are designed to infer potential relationships between diseases and circRNAs. However, the majority of existing approaches could not effectively utilize the multisource data and achieve poor performance in sparse networks. In this study, we develop an advanced method, GATGCN, using graph attention network (GAT) and graph convolutional network (GCN) to detect potential circRNA-disease relationships. First, several sources of biomedical information are fused via the centered kernel alignment model (CKA), which calculates the corresponding weight of different kernels. Second, we adopt the graph attention network to learn latent representation of diseases and circRNAs. Third, the graph convolutional network is deployed to effectively extract features of associations by aggregating feature vectors of neighbors. Meanwhile, GATGCN achieves the prominent AUC of 0.951 under leave-one-out cross-validation and AUC of 0.932 under 5-fold cross-validation. Furthermore, case studies on lung cancer, diabetes retinopathy, and prostate cancer verify the reliability of GATGCN for detecting latent circRNA-disease pairs.
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- Guanghui Li
- School of Information Engineering, East China Jiaotong University, Nanchang, China
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- School of Information Engineering, East China Jiaotong University, Nanchang, China
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- School of Information Engineering, East China Jiaotong University, Nanchang, China
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- School of Information Science and Engineering, Shandong Normal University, Jinan, China
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- College of Information Science and Engineering, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, China
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- College of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha, China
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Ma Z, Kuang Z, Deng L. CRPGCN: predicting circRNA-disease associations using graph convolutional network based on heterogeneous network. BMC Bioinformatics 2021; 22:551. [PMID: 34772332 PMCID: PMC8588735 DOI: 10.1186/s12859-021-04467-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/02/2021] [Accepted: 11/01/2021] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND The existing studies show that circRNAs can be used as a biomarker of diseases and play a prominent role in the treatment and diagnosis of diseases. However, the relationships between the vast majority of circRNAs and diseases are still unclear, and more experiments are needed to study the mechanism of circRNAs. Nowadays, some scholars use the attributes between circRNAs and diseases to study and predict their associations. Nonetheless, most of the existing experimental methods use less information about the attributes of circRNAs, which has a certain impact on the accuracy of the final prediction results. On the other hand, some scholars also apply experimental methods to predict the associations between circRNAs and diseases. But such methods are usually expensive and time-consuming. Based on the above shortcomings, follow-up research is needed to propose a more efficient calculation-based method to predict the associations between circRNAs and diseases. RESULTS In this study, a novel algorithm (method) is proposed, which is based on the Graph Convolutional Network (GCN) constructed with Random Walk with Restart (RWR) and Principal Component Analysis (PCA) to predict the associations between circRNAs and diseases (CRPGCN). In the construction of CRPGCN, the RWR algorithm is used to improve the similarity associations of the computed nodes with their neighbours. After that, the PCA method is used to dimensionality reduction and extract features, it makes the connection between circRNAs with higher similarity and diseases closer. Finally, The GCN algorithm is used to learn the features between circRNAs and diseases and calculate the final similarity scores, and the learning datas are constructed from the adjacency matrix, similarity matrix and feature matrix as a heterogeneous adjacency matrix and a heterogeneous feature matrix. CONCLUSIONS After 2-fold cross-validation, 5-fold cross-validation and 10-fold cross-validation, the area under the ROC curve of the CRPGCN is 0.9490, 0.9720 and 0.9722, respectively. The CRPGCN method has a valuable effect in predict the associations between circRNAs and diseases.
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- Zhihao Ma
- School of Computer and Information Engineering, Central South University of Forestry and Technology, Changsha, China
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- School of Computer and Information Engineering, Central South University of Forestry and Technology, Changsha, China
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- School of Computer Science and Engineering, Central South University, Changsha, China
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Graph convolutional network approach to discovering disease-related circRNA-miRNA-mRNA axes. Methods 2021; 198:45-55. [PMID: 34758394 DOI: 10.1016/j.ymeth.2021.10.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/30/2021] [Revised: 10/07/2021] [Accepted: 10/19/2021] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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Non-coding RNAs are gaining prominence in biology and medicine, as they play major roles in cellular homeostasis among which the circRNA-miRNA-mRNA axes are involved in a series of disease-related pathways, such as apoptosis, cell invasion and metastasis. Recently, many computational methods have been developed for the prediction of the relationship between ncRNAs and diseases, which can alleviate the time-consuming and labor-intensive exploration involved with biological experiments. However, these methods handle ncRNAs separately, ignoring the impact of the interactions among ncRNAs on the diseases. In this paper we present a novel approach to discovering disease-related circRNA-miRNA-mRNA axes from the disease-RNA information network. Our method, using graph convolutional network, learns the characteristic representation of each biological entity by propagating and aggregating local neighbor information based on the global structure of the network. The approach is evaluated using the real-world datasets and the results show that it outperforms other state-of-the-art baselines on most of the metrics.
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Bamunu Mudiyanselage T, Lei X, Senanayake N, Zhang Y, Pan Y. Predicting CircRNA disease associations using novel node classification and link prediction models on Graph Convolutional Networks. Methods 2021; 198:32-44. [PMID: 34748953 DOI: 10.1016/j.ymeth.2021.10.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/25/2021] [Revised: 09/21/2021] [Accepted: 10/22/2021] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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Accumulated studies have discovered that circular RNAs (CircRNAs) are closely related to many complex human diseases. Due to this close relationship, CircRNAs can be used as good biomarkers for disease diagnosis and therapeutic targets for treatments. However, the number of experimentally verified circRNA-disease associations are still fewer and also conducting wet-lab experiments are constrained by the small scale and cost of time and labour. Therefore, effective computational methods are required to predict associations between circRNAs and diseases which will be promising candidates for small scale biological and clinical experiments. In this paper, we propose novel computational models based on Graph Convolution Networks (GCN) for the potential circRNA-disease association prediction. Currently most of the existing prediction methods use shallow learning algorithms. Instead, the proposed models combine the strengths of deep learning and graphs for the computation. First, they integrate multi-source similarity information into the association network. Next, models predict potential associations using graph convolution which explore this important relational knowledge of that network structure. Two circRNA-disease association prediction models, GCN based Node Classification (GCN-NC) and GCN based Link Prediction (GCN-LP) are introduced in this work and they demonstrate promising results in various experiments and outperforms other existing methods. Further, a case study proves that some of the predicted results of the novel computational models were confirmed by published literature and all top results could be verified using gene-gene interaction networks.
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- School of Computer Science, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an 710119, China.
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- Department of Computer Science, Georgia State University, Atlanta, USA.
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- Department of Computer Science, Georgia State University, Atlanta, USA.
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- Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen, China.
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Wang CC, Han CD, Zhao Q, Chen X. Circular RNAs and complex diseases: from experimental results to computational models. Brief Bioinform 2021; 22:bbab286. [PMID: 34329377 PMCID: PMC8575014 DOI: 10.1093/bib/bbab286] [Citation(s) in RCA: 104] [Impact Index Per Article: 34.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/01/2021] [Revised: 06/23/2021] [Accepted: 07/03/2021] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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Circular RNAs (circRNAs) are a class of single-stranded, covalently closed RNA molecules with a variety of biological functions. Studies have shown that circRNAs are involved in a variety of biological processes and play an important role in the development of various complex diseases, so the identification of circRNA-disease associations would contribute to the diagnosis and treatment of diseases. In this review, we summarize the discovery, classifications and functions of circRNAs and introduce four important diseases associated with circRNAs. Then, we list some significant and publicly accessible databases containing comprehensive annotation resources of circRNAs and experimentally validated circRNA-disease associations. Next, we introduce some state-of-the-art computational models for predicting novel circRNA-disease associations and divide them into two categories, namely network algorithm-based and machine learning-based models. Subsequently, several evaluation methods of prediction performance of these computational models are summarized. Finally, we analyze the advantages and disadvantages of different types of computational models and provide some suggestions to promote the development of circRNA-disease association identification from the perspective of the construction of new computational models and the accumulation of circRNA-related data.
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- Chun-Chun Wang
- School of Information and Control Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology
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- School of Information and Control Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology
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- School of Computer Science and Software Engineering, University of Science and Technology Liaoning
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- China University of Mining and Technology
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Naseri A, Sharghi M, Hasheminejad SMH. Enhancing gene regulatory networks inference through hub-based data integration. Comput Biol Chem 2021; 95:107589. [PMID: 34673384 DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiolchem.2021.107589] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/21/2021] [Revised: 08/11/2021] [Accepted: 10/04/2021] [Indexed: 12/09/2022]
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One of the main research topics in computational biology is Gene Regulatory Network (GRN) reconstruction that refers to inferring the relationships between genes involved in regulating cell conditions in response to internal or external stimuli. To this end, most computational methods use only transcriptional gene expression data to reconstruct gene regulatory networks, but recent studies suggest that gene expression data must be integrated with other types of data to obtain more accurate models predicting real relationships between genes. In this study, a diffusion-based method is enhanced to integrate biological data of network types besides structural prior knowledge. The Random Walk with Restart algorithm (RWR) with an emphasis on hub nodes is executed separately on each network, and then jointly optimizes low-dimensional feature vectors for network nodes by diffusion component analysis. Next, these feature vectors are used to infer gene regulatory networks. Fourteen centrality measures are studied for the detection of hub nodes to be used in the RWR algorithm, and the best centrality measure having the greatest effect on the improvement of gene network inference is selected. A case study for the Saccharomyces cerevisiae and E. coli networks shows that using the proposed features in comparison with gene expression data alone results in 0.02-0.08 units improvement in Area Under Receiver Characteristic Operator (AUROC) criteria across different gene regulatory network inference methods. Furthermore, the proposed method was applied to the esophageal cancer data to infer its gene regulatory network. The proposed framework substantially improves accuracy and scalability of GRN inference. The fused features and the best centrality measure detected can be used to provide functional insights about genes or proteins in various biological applications. Moreover, it can be served as a general framework for network data and structural data integration and analysis problems in various scientific disciplines including biology.
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- Atefeh Naseri
- Department of Computer Engineering, Alzahra University, Tehran, Iran.
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- Department of Computer Engineering, Alzahra University, Tehran, Iran.
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Xiao Q, Dai J, Luo J. A survey of circular RNAs in complex diseases: databases, tools and computational methods. Brief Bioinform 2021; 23:6407737. [PMID: 34676391 DOI: 10.1093/bib/bbab444] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/13/2021] [Revised: 09/21/2021] [Accepted: 09/28/2021] [Indexed: 01/22/2023] Open
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Circular RNAs (circRNAs) are a category of novelty discovered competing endogenous non-coding RNAs that have been proved to implicate many human complex diseases. A large number of circRNAs have been confirmed to be involved in cancer progression and are expected to become promising biomarkers for tumor diagnosis and targeted therapy. Deciphering the underlying relationships between circRNAs and diseases may provide new insights for us to understand the pathogenesis of complex diseases and further characterize the biological functions of circRNAs. As traditional experimental methods are usually time-consuming and laborious, computational models have made significant progress in systematically exploring potential circRNA-disease associations, which not only creates new opportunities for investigating pathogenic mechanisms at the level of circRNAs, but also helps to significantly improve the efficiency of clinical trials. In this review, we first summarize the functions and characteristics of circRNAs and introduce some representative circRNAs related to tumorigenesis. Then, we mainly investigate the available databases and tools dedicated to circRNA and disease studies. Next, we present a comprehensive review of computational methods for predicting circRNA-disease associations and classify them into five categories, including network propagating-based, path-based, matrix factorization-based, deep learning-based and other machine learning methods. Finally, we further discuss the challenges and future researches in this field.
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- Qiu Xiao
- Hunan Normal University and Hunan Xiangjiang Artificial Intelligence Academy, Changsha, China
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- Hunan Normal University and Hunan Xiangjiang Artificial Intelligence Academy, Changsha, China
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- College of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha, China
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Yao Y, Ji B, Lv Y, Li L, Xiang J, Liao B, Gao W. Predicting LncRNA-Disease Association by a Random Walk With Restart on Multiplex and Heterogeneous Networks. Front Genet 2021; 12:712170. [PMID: 34490041 PMCID: PMC8417042 DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2021.712170] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/20/2021] [Accepted: 07/23/2021] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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Studies have found that long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) play important roles in many human biological processes, and it is critical to explore potential lncRNA–disease associations, especially cancer-associated lncRNAs. However, traditional biological experiments are costly and time-consuming, so it is of great significance to develop effective computational models. We developed a random walk algorithm with restart on multiplex and heterogeneous networks of lncRNAs and diseases to predict lncRNA–disease associations (MHRWRLDA). First, multiple disease similarity networks are constructed by using different approaches to calculate similarity scores between diseases, and multiple lncRNA similarity networks are also constructed by using different approaches to calculate similarity scores between lncRNAs. Then, a multiplex and heterogeneous network was constructed by integrating multiple disease similarity networks and multiple lncRNA similarity networks with the lncRNA–disease associations, and a random walk with restart on the multiplex and heterogeneous network was performed to predict lncRNA–disease associations. The results of Leave-One-Out cross-validation (LOOCV) showed that the value of Area under the curve (AUC) was 0.68736, which was improved compared with the classical algorithm in recent years. Finally, we confirmed a few novel predicted lncRNAs associated with specific diseases like colon cancer by literature mining. In summary, MHRWRLDA contributes to predict lncRNA–disease associations.
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- Yuhua Yao
- School of Mathematics and Statistics, Hainan Normal University, Haikou, China.,Key Laboratory of Data Science and Intelligence Education, Ministry of Education, Hainan Normal University, Haikou, China.,Key Laboratory of Computational Science and Application of Hainan Province, Hainan Normal University, Haikou, China
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- Geneis Beijing Co., Ltd., Beijing, China
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- School of Mathematics and Statistics, Hainan Normal University, Haikou, China
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- Basic Courses Department, Zhejiang Shuren University, Hangzhou, China
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- School of Computer Science and Engineering, Central South University, Changsha, China.,Department of Basic Medical Sciences, Changsha Medical University, Changsha, China.,Department of Computer Science, Changsha Medical University, Changsha, China
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- School of Mathematics and Statistics, Hainan Normal University, Haikou, China
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- Departments of Internal Medicine-Oncology, Fujian Cancer Hospital & Fujian Medical University Cancer Hospital, Fuzhou, China
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Yao Y, Ji B, Lv Y, Li L, Xiang J, Liao B, Gao W. Predicting LncRNA–Disease Association by a Random Walk With Restart on Multiplex and Heterogeneous Networks. Front Genet 2021. [DOI: https:/doi.org/10.3389/fgene.2021.712170] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/23/2023] Open
Abstract
Studies have found that long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) play important roles in many human biological processes, and it is critical to explore potential lncRNA–disease associations, especially cancer-associated lncRNAs. However, traditional biological experiments are costly and time-consuming, so it is of great significance to develop effective computational models. We developed a random walk algorithm with restart on multiplex and heterogeneous networks of lncRNAs and diseases to predict lncRNA–disease associations (MHRWRLDA). First, multiple disease similarity networks are constructed by using different approaches to calculate similarity scores between diseases, and multiple lncRNA similarity networks are also constructed by using different approaches to calculate similarity scores between lncRNAs. Then, a multiplex and heterogeneous network was constructed by integrating multiple disease similarity networks and multiple lncRNA similarity networks with the lncRNA–disease associations, and a random walk with restart on the multiplex and heterogeneous network was performed to predict lncRNA–disease associations. The results of Leave-One-Out cross-validation (LOOCV) showed that the value of Area under the curve (AUC) was 0.68736, which was improved compared with the classical algorithm in recent years. Finally, we confirmed a few novel predicted lncRNAs associated with specific diseases like colon cancer by literature mining. In summary, MHRWRLDA contributes to predict lncRNA–disease associations.
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Zuo ZL, Cao RF, Wei PJ, Xia JF, Zheng CH. Double matrix completion for circRNA-disease association prediction. BMC Bioinformatics 2021; 22:307. [PMID: 34103016 PMCID: PMC8185931 DOI: 10.1186/s12859-021-04231-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/10/2021] [Accepted: 05/28/2021] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Circular RNAs (circRNAs) are a class of single-stranded RNA molecules with a closed-loop structure. A growing body of research has shown that circRNAs are closely related to the development of diseases. Because biological experiments to verify circRNA-disease associations are time-consuming and wasteful of resources, it is necessary to propose a reliable computational method to predict the potential candidate circRNA-disease associations for biological experiments to make them more efficient. RESULTS In this paper, we propose a double matrix completion method (DMCCDA) for predicting potential circRNA-disease associations. First, we constructed a similarity matrix of circRNA and disease according to circRNA sequence information and semantic disease information. We also built a Gauss interaction profile similarity matrix for circRNA and disease based on experimentally verified circRNA-disease associations. Then, the corresponding circRNA sequence similarity and semantic similarity of disease are used to update the association matrix from the perspective of circRNA and disease, respectively, by matrix multiplication. Finally, from the perspective of circRNA and disease, matrix completion is used to update the matrix block, which is formed by splicing the association matrix obtained in the previous step with the corresponding Gaussian similarity matrix. Compared with other approaches, the model of DMCCDA has a relatively good result in leave-one-out cross-validation and five-fold cross-validation. Additionally, the results of the case studies illustrate the effectiveness of the DMCCDA model. CONCLUSION The results show that our method works well for recommending the potential circRNAs for a disease for biological experiments.
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- Zong-Lan Zuo
- Key Lab of Intelligent Computing and Signal Processing of Ministry of Education, School of Computer Science and Technology, Anhui University, Hefei, China
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- Key Lab of Intelligent Computing and Signal Processing of Ministry of Education, School of Computer Science and Technology, Anhui University, Hefei, China
- Engineering Research Center of Big Data Application in Private Health Medicine, Fujian Province University, Putian, Fujian, China
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- Institute of Physical Science and Information Technology, Anhui University, Hefei, China
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- Institute of Physical Science and Information Technology, Anhui University, Hefei, China
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- Key Lab of Intelligent Computing and Signal Processing of Ministry of Education, School of Computer Science and Technology, Anhui University, Hefei, China.
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RIFS2D: A two-dimensional version of a randomly restarted incremental feature selection algorithm with an application for detecting low-ranked biomarkers. Comput Biol Med 2021; 133:104405. [PMID: 33930763 DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2021.104405] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/03/2021] [Revised: 04/13/2021] [Accepted: 04/13/2021] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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The era of big data introduces both opportunities and challenges for biomedical researchers. One of the inherent difficulties in the biomedical research field is to recruit large cohorts of samples, while high-throughput biotechnologies may produce thousands or even millions of features for each sample. Researchers tend to evaluate the individual correlation of each feature with the class label and use the incremental feature selection (IFS) strategy to select the top-ranked features with the best prediction performance. Recent experimental data showed that a subset of continuously ranked features randomly restarted from a low-ranked feature (an RIFS block) may outperform the subset of top-ranked features. This study proposed a feature selection Algorithm RIFS2D by integrating multiple RIFS blocks. A comprehensive comparative experiment was conducted with the IFS, RIFS and existing feature selection algorithms and demonstrated that a subset of low-ranked features may also achieve promising prediction performance. This study suggested that a prediction model with promising performance may be trained by low-ranked features, even when top-ranked features did not achieve satisfying prediction performance. Further comparative experiments were conducted between RIFS2D and t-tests for the detection of early-stage breast cancer. The data showed that the RIFS2D-recommended features achieved better prediction accuracy and were targeted by more drugs than the t-test top-ranked features.
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Lu C, Zeng M, Wu FX, Li M, Wang J. Improving circRNA-disease association prediction by sequence and ontology representations with convolutional and recurrent neural networks. Bioinformatics 2020; 36:5656-5664. [PMID: 33367690 DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btaa1077] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/07/2020] [Revised: 11/22/2020] [Accepted: 12/15/2020] [Indexed: 01/26/2023] Open
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MOTIVATION Emerging studies indicate that circular RNAs (circRNAs) are widely involved in the progression of human diseases. Due to its special structure which is stable, circRNAs are promising diagnostic and prognostic biomarkers for diseases. However, the experimental verification of circRNA-disease associations is expensive and limited to small-scale. Effective computational methods for predicting potential circRNA-disease associations are regarded as a matter of urgency. Although several models have been proposed, over-reliance on known associations and the absence of characteristics of biological functions make precise predictions are still challenging. RESULTS In this study, we propose a method for predicting CircRNA-Disease Associations based on Sequence and Ontology Representations, named CDASOR, with convolutional and recurrent neural networks. For sequences of circRNAs, we encode them with continuous k-mers, get low-dimensional vectors of k-mers, extract their local feature vectors with 1 D CNN and learn their long-term dependencies with bi-directional long short-term memory. For diseases, we serialize disease ontology into sentences containing the hierarchy of ontology, obtain low-dimensional vectors for disease ontology terms and get terms' dependencies. Furthermore, we get association patterns of circRNAs and diseases from known circRNA-disease associations with neural networks. After the above steps, we get circRNAs' and diseases' high-level representations which are informative to improve the prediction. The experimental results show that CDASOR provides an accurate prediction. Importing the characteristics of biological functions, CDASOR achieves impressive predictions in the de novo test. In addition, 6 of the top-10 predicted results are verified by the published literature in the case studies. AVAILABILITY The code of CDASOR is freely available at https://github.com/BioinformaticsCSU/CDASOR. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
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- Chengqian Lu
- School of Computer Science and Engineering, Central South University, Changsha, 410083, P.R. China.,Hunan Provincial Key Lab on Bioinformatics, Central South University, Changsha, 410083, China
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- School of Computer Science and Engineering, Central South University, Changsha, 410083, P.R. China.,Hunan Provincial Key Lab on Bioinformatics, Central South University, Changsha, 410083, China
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- Hunan Provincial Key Lab on Bioinformatics, Central South University, Changsha, 410083, China
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- School of Computer Science and Engineering, Central South University, Changsha, 410083, P.R. China.,Hunan Provincial Key Lab on Bioinformatics, Central South University, Changsha, 410083, China
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- School of Computer Science and Engineering, Central South University, Changsha, 410083, P.R. China.,Hunan Provincial Key Lab on Bioinformatics, Central South University, Changsha, 410083, China
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Lei X, Mudiyanselage TB, Zhang Y, Bian C, Lan W, Yu N, Pan Y. A comprehensive survey on computational methods of non-coding RNA and disease association prediction. Brief Bioinform 2020; 22:6042241. [PMID: 33341893 DOI: 10.1093/bib/bbaa350] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/28/2020] [Revised: 10/20/2020] [Accepted: 11/01/2020] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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The studies on relationships between non-coding RNAs and diseases are widely carried out in recent years. A large number of experimental methods and technologies of producing biological data have also been developed. However, due to their high labor cost and production time, nowadays, calculation-based methods, especially machine learning and deep learning methods, have received a lot of attention and been used commonly to solve these problems. From a computational point of view, this survey mainly introduces three common non-coding RNAs, i.e. miRNAs, lncRNAs and circRNAs, and the related computational methods for predicting their association with diseases. First, the mainstream databases of above three non-coding RNAs are introduced in detail. Then, we present several methods for RNA similarity and disease similarity calculations. Later, we investigate ncRNA-disease prediction methods in details and classify these methods into five types: network propagating, recommend system, matrix completion, machine learning and deep learning. Furthermore, we provide a summary of the applications of these five types of computational methods in predicting the associations between diseases and miRNAs, lncRNAs and circRNAs, respectively. Finally, the advantages and limitations of various methods are identified, and future researches and challenges are also discussed.
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- Xiujuan Lei
- School of Computer Science, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an, China
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- School of Computer Science, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an, China
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- School of Computer Science, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an, China
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- School of Computer, Electronics and Information at Guangxi University, Nanning, China
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- Department of Computing Sciences at the College at Brockport, State University of New York, Rochester, NY, USA
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- Computer Science Department at Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, USA
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Deepthi K, Jereesh A. An ensemble approach for CircRNA-disease association prediction based on autoencoder and deep neural network. Gene 2020; 762:145040. [DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2020.145040] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/26/2020] [Revised: 06/28/2020] [Accepted: 08/04/2020] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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Li G, Luo J, Wang D, Liang C, Xiao Q, Ding P, Chen H. Potential circRNA-disease association prediction using DeepWalk and network consistency projection. J Biomed Inform 2020; 112:103624. [PMID: 33217543 DOI: 10.1016/j.jbi.2020.103624] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/06/2020] [Revised: 11/08/2020] [Accepted: 11/12/2020] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
Abstract
A growing body of experimental studies have reported that circular RNAs (circRNAs) are of interest in pathogenicity mechanism research and are becoming new diagnostic biomarkers. As experimental techniques for identifying disease-circRNA interactions are costly and laborious, some computational predictors have been advanced on the basis of the integration of biological features about circRNAs and diseases. However, the existing circRNA-disease relationships are not well exploited. To solve this issue, a novel method named DeepWalk and network consistency projection for circRNA-disease association prediction (DWNCPCDA) is proposed. Specifically, our method first reveals features of nodes learned by the deep learning method DeepWalk based on known circRNA-disease associations to calculate circRNA-circRNA similarity and disease-disease similarity, and then these two similarity networks are further employed to feed to the network consistency projection method to predict unobserved circRNA-disease interactions. As a result, DWNCPCDA shows high-accuracy performances for disease-circRNA interaction prediction: an AUC of 0.9647 with leave-one-out cross validation and an average AUC of 0.9599 with five-fold cross validation. We further perform case studies to prioritize latent circRNAs related to complex human diseases. Overall, this proposed method is able to provide a promising solution for disease-circRNA interaction prediction, and is capable of enhancing existing similarity-based prediction methods.
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- Guanghui Li
- School of Information Engineering, East China Jiaotong University, Nanchang, China.
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- College of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha, China
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- School of Information Engineering, East China Jiaotong University, Nanchang, China
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- College of Information Science and Engineering, Shandong Normal University, Jinan, China
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- College of Information Science and Engineering, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, China
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- School of Computer Science, University of South China, Hengyang, China
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- School of Software, East China Jiaotong University, Nanchang, China
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Xiao Q, Zhong J, Tang X, Luo J. iCDA-CMG: identifying circRNA-disease associations by federating multi-similarity fusion and collective matrix completion. Mol Genet Genomics 2020; 296:223-233. [PMID: 33159254 DOI: 10.1007/s00438-020-01741-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/11/2020] [Accepted: 10/23/2020] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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Circular RNAs (circRNAs) are a special class of non-coding RNAs with covalently closed-loop structures. Studies prove that circRNAs perform critical roles in various biological processes, and the aberrant expression of circRNAs is closely related to tumorigenesis. Therefore, identifying potential circRNA-disease associations is beneficial to understand the pathogenesis of complex diseases at the circRNA level and helps biomedical researchers and practitioners to discover diagnostic biomarkers accurately. However, it is tremendously laborious and time-consuming to discover disease-related circRNAs with conventional biological experiments. In this study, we develop an integrative framework, called iCDA-CMG, to predict potential associations between circRNAs and diseases. By incorporating multi-source prior knowledge, including known circRNA-disease associations, disease similarities and circRNA similarities, we adopt a collective matrix completion-based graph learning model to prioritize the most promising disease-related circRNAs for guiding laborious clinical trials. The results show that iCDA-CMG outperforms other state-of-the-art models in terms of cross-validation and independent prediction. Moreover, the case studies for several representative cancers suggest the effectiveness of iCDA-CMG in screening circRNA candidates for human diseases, which will contribute to elucidating the pathogenesis mechanisms and unveiling new opportunities for disease diagnosis and targeted therapy.
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- Qiu Xiao
- Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory of Intelligent Computing and Language Information Processing, College of Information Science and Engineering, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, 410081, China.,Hunan Xiangjiang Artificial Intelligence Academy, Changsha, 410000, China
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- Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory of Intelligent Computing and Language Information Processing, College of Information Science and Engineering, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, 410081, China.
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- School of Information Science and Engineering, Hunan First Normal University, Changsha, 410205, China
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- College of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha, 410082, China.
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Fan C, Lei X, Pan Y. Prioritizing CircRNA-Disease Associations With Convolutional Neural Network Based on Multiple Similarity Feature Fusion. Front Genet 2020; 11:540751. [PMID: 33193615 PMCID: PMC7525185 DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2020.540751] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/25/2020] [Accepted: 08/12/2020] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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Accumulating evidence shows that circular RNAs (circRNAs) have significant roles in human health and in the occurrence and development of diseases. Biological researchers have identified disease-related circRNAs that could be considered as potential biomarkers for clinical diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment. However, identification of circRNA–disease associations using traditional biological experiments is still expensive and time-consuming. In this study, we propose a novel method named MSFCNN for the task of circRNA–disease association prediction, involving two-layer convolutional neural networks on a feature matrix that fuses multiple similarity kernels and interaction features among circRNAs, miRNAs, and diseases. First, four circRNA similarity kernels and seven disease similarity kernels are constructed based on the biological or topological properties of circRNAs and diseases. Subsequently, the similarity kernel fusion method is used to integrate the similarity kernels into one circRNA similarity kernel and one disease similarity kernel, respectively. Then, a feature matrix for each circRNA–disease pair is constructed by integrating the fused circRNA similarity kernel and fused disease similarity kernel with interactions and features among circRNAs, miRNAs, and diseases. The features of circRNA–miRNA and disease–miRNA interactions are selected using principal component analysis. Finally, taking the constructed feature matrix as an input, we used two-layer convolutional neural networks to predict circRNA–disease association labels and mine potential novel associations. Five-fold cross validation shows that our proposed model outperforms conventional machine learning methods, including support vector machine, random forest, and multilayer perception approaches. Furthermore, case studies of predicted circRNAs for specific diseases and the top predicted circRNA–disease associations are analyzed. The results show that the MSFCNN model could be an effective tool for mining potential circRNA–disease associations.
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- Chunyan Fan
- School of Computer Science, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an, China
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- School of Computer Science, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an, China
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- Department of Computer Science, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, United States
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Xiao Q, Yu H, Zhong J, Liang C, Li G, Ding P, Luo J. An in-silico method with graph-based multi-label learning for large-scale prediction of circRNA-disease associations. Genomics 2020; 112:3407-3415. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ygeno.2020.06.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/03/2020] [Revised: 06/08/2020] [Accepted: 06/09/2020] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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