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Chen H, Lu D, Xiao Z, Li S, Zhang W, Luan X, Zhang W, Zheng G. Comprehensive applications of the artificial intelligence technology in new drug research and development. Health Inf Sci Syst 2024; 12:41. [PMID: 39130617 PMCID: PMC11310389 DOI: 10.1007/s13755-024-00300-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/31/2023] [Accepted: 07/27/2024] [Indexed: 08/13/2024] Open
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Purpose Target-based strategy is a prevalent means of drug research and development (R&D), since targets provide effector molecules of drug action and offer the foundation of pharmacological investigation. Recently, the artificial intelligence (AI) technology has been utilized in various stages of drug R&D, where AI-assisted experimental methods show higher efficiency than sole experimental ones. It is a critical need to give a comprehensive review of AI applications in drug R &D for biopharmaceutical field. Methods Relevant literatures about AI-assisted drug R&D were collected from the public databases (Including Google Scholar, Web of Science, PubMed, IEEE Xplore Digital Library, Springer, and ScienceDirect) through a keyword searching strategy with the following terms [("Artificial Intelligence" OR "Knowledge Graph" OR "Machine Learning") AND ("Drug Target Identification" OR "New Drug Development")]. Results In this review, we first introduced common strategies and novel trends of drug R&D, followed by characteristic description of AI algorithms widely used in drug R&D. Subsequently, we depicted detailed applications of AI algorithms in target identification, lead compound identification and optimization, drug repurposing, and drug analytical platform construction. Finally, we discussed the challenges and prospects of AI-assisted methods for drug discovery. Conclusion Collectively, this review provides comprehensive overview of AI applications in drug R&D and presents future perspectives for biopharmaceutical field, which may promote the development of drug industry.
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- Hongyu Chen
- Shanghai Frontiers Science Center for Chinese Medicine Chemical Biology, Institute of Interdisciplinary Integrative Medicine Research, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, China
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- Shanghai Frontiers Science Center for Chinese Medicine Chemical Biology, Institute of Interdisciplinary Integrative Medicine Research, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, China
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- Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD USA
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- Shanghai Frontiers Science Center for Chinese Medicine Chemical Biology, Institute of Interdisciplinary Integrative Medicine Research, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, China
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- Shanghai Frontiers Science Center for Chinese Medicine Chemical Biology, Institute of Interdisciplinary Integrative Medicine Research, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, China
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- Shanghai Frontiers Science Center for Chinese Medicine Chemical Biology, Institute of Interdisciplinary Integrative Medicine Research, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, China
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- Shanghai Frontiers Science Center for Chinese Medicine Chemical Biology, Institute of Interdisciplinary Integrative Medicine Research, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, China
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- Shanghai Frontiers Science Center for Chinese Medicine Chemical Biology, Institute of Interdisciplinary Integrative Medicine Research, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, China
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Luo L, Tan Z, Wang S. RSANMDA: Resampling based subview attention network for miRNA-disease association prediction. Methods 2024; 230:99-107. [PMID: 39097178 DOI: 10.1016/j.ymeth.2024.07.007] [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: 06/06/2024] [Revised: 07/16/2024] [Accepted: 07/23/2024] [Indexed: 08/05/2024] Open
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Many studies have demonstrated the importance of accurately identifying miRNA-disease associations (MDAs) for understanding disease mechanisms. However, the number of known MDAs is significantly fewer than the unknown pairs. Here, we propose RSANMDA, a subview attention network for predicting MDAs. We first extract miRNA and disease features from multiple similarity matrices. Next, using resampling techniques, we generate different subviews from known MDAs. Each subview undergoes multi-head graph attention to capture its features, followed by semantic attention to integrate features across subviews. Finally, combining raw and training features, we use a multilayer scoring perceptron for prediction. In the experimental section, we conducted comparative experiments with other advanced models on both HMDD v2.0 and HMDD v3.2 datasets. We also performed a series of ablation studies and parameter tuning exercises. Comprehensive experiments conclusively demonstrate the superiority of our model. Case studies on lung, breast, and esophageal cancers further validate our method's predictive capability for identifying disease-related miRNAs.
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- Longfei Luo
- Department of Computer Science and Engineering, School of Information Science and Engineering, Yunnan University, Kunming, 650504, Yunnan, China
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- Department of Computer Science and Engineering, School of Information Science and Engineering, Yunnan University, Kunming, 650504, Yunnan, China
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- Department of Computer Science and Engineering, School of Information Science and Engineering, Yunnan University, Kunming, 650504, Yunnan, China.
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Sun W, Zhang P, Zhang W, Xu J, Huang Y, Li L. Synchronous Mutual Learning Network and Asynchronous Multi-Scale Embedding Network for miRNA-Disease Association Prediction. Interdiscip Sci 2024; 16:532-553. [PMID: 38310628 DOI: 10.1007/s12539-023-00602-x] [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: 10/09/2023] [Revised: 12/20/2023] [Accepted: 12/22/2023] [Indexed: 02/06/2024]
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MicroRNA (miRNA) serves as a pivotal regulator of numerous cellular processes, and the identification of miRNA-disease associations (MDAs) is crucial for comprehending complex diseases. Recently, graph neural networks (GNN) have made significant advancements in MDA prediction. However, these methods tend to learn one type of node representation from a single heterogeneous network, ignoring the importance of multiple network topologies and node attributes. Here, we propose SMDAP (Sequence hierarchical modeling-based Mirna-Disease Association Prediction framework), a novel GNN-based framework that incorporates multiple network topologies and various node attributes including miRNA seed and full-length sequences to predict potential MDAs. Specifically, SMDAP consists of two types of MDA representation: following a heterogeneous pattern, we construct a transfer learning-like synchronous mutual learning network to learn the first MDA representation in conjunction with the miRNA seed sequence. Meanwhile, following a homogeneous pattern, we design a subgraph-inspired asynchronous multi-scale embedding network to obtain the second MDA representation based on the miRNA full-length sequence. Subsequently, an adaptive fusion approach is designed to combine the two branches such that we can score the MDAs by the downstream classifier and infer novel MDAs. Comprehensive experiments demonstrate that SMDAP integrates the advantages of multiple network topologies and node attributes into two branch representations. Moreover, the area under the receiver operating characteristic curve is 0.9622 on DB1, which is a 5.06% increase from the baselines. The area under the precision-recall curve is 0.9777, which is a 7.33% increase from the baselines. In addition, case studies on three human cancers validated the predictive performance of SMDAP. Overall, SMDAP represents a powerful tool for MDA prediction.
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- Weicheng Sun
- College of Informatics, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, China
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- College of Informatics, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, China
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- College of Informatics, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, China
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- College of Informatics, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, China
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- College of Informatics, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, China.
- Hubei Hongshan Laboratory, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, China.
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Biyu H, Mengshan L, Yuxin H, Ming Z, Nan W, Lixin G. A miRNA-disease association prediction model based on tree-path global feature extraction and fully connected artificial neural network with multi-head self-attention mechanism. BMC Cancer 2024; 24:683. [PMID: 38840078 PMCID: PMC11151537 DOI: 10.1186/s12885-024-12420-5] [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: 11/18/2023] [Accepted: 05/23/2024] [Indexed: 06/07/2024] Open
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BACKGROUND MicroRNAs (miRNAs) emerge in various organisms, ranging from viruses to humans, and play crucial regulatory roles within cells, participating in a variety of biological processes. In numerous prediction methods for miRNA-disease associations, the issue of over-dependence on both similarity measurement data and the association matrix still hasn't been improved. In this paper, a miRNA-Disease association prediction model (called TP-MDA) based on tree path global feature extraction and fully connected artificial neural network (FANN) with multi-head self-attention mechanism is proposed. The TP-MDA model utilizes an association tree structure to represent the data relationships, multi-head self-attention mechanism for extracting feature vectors, and fully connected artificial neural network with 5-fold cross-validation for model training. RESULTS The experimental results indicate that the TP-MDA model outperforms the other comparative models, AUC is 0.9714. In the case studies of miRNAs associated with colorectal cancer and lung cancer, among the top 15 miRNAs predicted by the model, 12 in colorectal cancer and 15 in lung cancer were validated respectively, the accuracy is as high as 0.9227. CONCLUSIONS The model proposed in this paper can accurately predict the miRNA-disease association, and can serve as a valuable reference for data mining and association prediction in the fields of life sciences, biology, and disease genetics, among others.
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- Hou Biyu
- College of Physics and Electronic Information, Gannan Normal University, Ganzhou, Jiangxi, 341000, China
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- College of Physics and Electronic Information, Gannan Normal University, Ganzhou, Jiangxi, 341000, China.
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- College of Computer Science and Engineering, Shanxi Datong University, Datong, Shanxi, 037000, China
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- College of Physics and Electronic Information, Gannan Normal University, Ganzhou, Jiangxi, 341000, China
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- College of Life Sciences, Jiaying University, Meizhou, Guangdong, 514000, China
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- College of Physics and Electronic Information, Gannan Normal University, Ganzhou, Jiangxi, 341000, China
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Zou HT, Ji BY, Xie XL. A multi-source molecular network representation model for protein-protein interactions prediction. Sci Rep 2024; 14:6184. [PMID: 38485942 PMCID: PMC10940665 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-56286-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/07/2023] [Accepted: 03/05/2024] [Indexed: 03/18/2024] Open
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The prediction of potential protein-protein interactions (PPIs) is a critical step in decoding diseases and understanding cellular mechanisms. Traditional biological experiments have identified plenty of potential PPIs in recent years, but this problem is still far from being solved. Hence, there is urgent to develop computational models with good performance and high efficiency to predict potential PPIs. In this study, we propose a multi-source molecular network representation learning model (called MultiPPIs) to predict potential protein-protein interactions. Specifically, we first extract the protein sequence features according to the physicochemical properties of amino acids by utilizing the auto covariance method. Second, a multi-source association network is constructed by integrating the known associations among miRNAs, proteins, lncRNAs, drugs, and diseases. The graph representation learning method, DeepWalk, is adopted to extract the multisource association information of proteins with other biomolecules. In this way, the known protein-protein interaction pairs can be represented as a concatenation of the protein sequence and the multi-source association features of proteins. Finally, the Random Forest classifier and corresponding optimal parameters are used for training and prediction. In the results, MultiPPIs obtains an average 86.03% prediction accuracy with 82.69% sensitivity at the AUC of 93.03% under five-fold cross-validation. The experimental results indicate that MultiPPIs has a good prediction performance and provides valuable insights into the field of potential protein-protein interactions prediction. MultiPPIs is free available at https://github.com/jiboyalab/multiPPIs .
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- Hai-Tao Zou
- College of Information Science and Engineering, Guilin University of Technology, Guilin, 541000, China
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- College of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha, 410000, China.
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- College of Information Science and Engineering, Guilin University of Technology, Guilin, 541000, China.
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Zou H, Ji B, Zhang M, Liu F, Xie X, Peng S. MHGTMDA: Molecular heterogeneous graph transformer based on biological entity graph for miRNA-disease associations prediction. MOLECULAR THERAPY. NUCLEIC ACIDS 2024; 35:102139. [PMID: 38384447 PMCID: PMC10879798 DOI: 10.1016/j.omtn.2024.102139] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/28/2023] [Accepted: 01/31/2024] [Indexed: 02/23/2024]
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MicroRNAs (miRNAs) play a crucial role in the prevention, prognosis, diagnosis, and treatment of complex diseases. Existing computational methods primarily focus on biologically relevant molecules directly associated with miRNA or disease, overlooking the fact that the human body is a highly complex system where miRNA or disease may indirectly correlate with various types of biomolecules. To address this, we propose a novel prediction model named MHGTMDA (miRNA and disease association prediction using heterogeneous graph transformer based on molecular heterogeneous graph). MHGTMDA integrates biological entity relationships of eight biomolecules, constructing a relatively comprehensive heterogeneous biological entity graph. MHGTMDA serves as a powerful molecular heterogeneity map transformer, capturing structural elements and properties of miRNAs and diseases, revealing potential associations. In a 5-fold cross-validation study, MHGTMDA achieved an area under the receiver operating characteristic curve of 0.9569, surpassing state-of-the-art methods by at least 3%. Feature ablation experiments suggest that considering features among multiple biomolecules is more effective in uncovering miRNA-disease correlations. Furthermore, we conducted differential expression analyses on breast cancer and lung cancer, using MHGTMDA to further validate differentially expressed miRNAs. The results demonstrate MHGTMDA's capability to identify novel MDAs.
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- Haitao Zou
- Guilin University of Technology, College of Information Science and Engineering, Guilin 541006, China
- Hunan University, College of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, Changsha 410082, China
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- Hunan University, College of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, Changsha 410082, China
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- Xiangya Hospital, The Department of Thoracic Surgery, Changsha 410082, China
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- Hunan Provincial People’s Hospital, Institute of Cardiovascular Epidemiology, Changsha 410082, China
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- Guilin University of Technology, College of Information Science and Engineering, Guilin 541006, China
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- Hunan University, College of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, Changsha 410082, China
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Zhou J, Wang X, Niu R, Shang X, Wen J. Predicting circRNA-miRNA interactions utilizing transformer-based RNA sequential learning and high-order proximity preserved embedding. iScience 2024; 27:108592. [PMID: 38205240 PMCID: PMC10777065 DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2023.108592] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/04/2023] [Revised: 10/20/2023] [Accepted: 11/27/2023] [Indexed: 01/12/2024] Open
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A key regulatory mechanism involves circular RNA (circRNA) acting as a sponge to modulate microRNA (miRNA), and thus, studying their interaction has significant medical implications. In this field, there are currently two pressing issues that remain unresolved. Firstly, due to the scarcity of verified interactions, we require a minimal amount of samples for training. Secondly, the current models lack interpretability. Therefore, we propose SPBCMI, a method that combines sequence features extracted using the Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformer (BERT) model and structural features of biological molecule networks extracted through graph embedding to train a GBDT (Gradient-boosted decision trees) classifier for prediction. Our method yielded an AUC of 0.9143, which is currently the best for this problem. Furthermore, in the case study, SPBCMI accurately predicted 7 out of 10 circRNA-miRNA interactions. These results show that our method provides an innovative and high-performing approach to understanding the interaction between circRNA and miRNA.
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- Jiren Zhou
- School of Computer Science, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, China
- The John Curtin School of Medical Research, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia
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- School of Information Engineering, Xijing University, Xi’an, China
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- School of Computer Science, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, China
- The John Curtin School of Medical Research, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia
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- School of Computer Science, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, China
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- The John Curtin School of Medical Research, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia
- Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the Mathematical Analysis of Cellular Systems
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Li ZW, Wang QK, Yuan CA, Han PY, You ZH, Wang L. Predicting MiRNA-Disease Associations by Graph Representation Learning Based on Jumping Knowledge Networks. IEEE/ACM TRANSACTIONS ON COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY AND BIOINFORMATICS 2023; 20:2629-2638. [PMID: 35925844 DOI: 10.1109/tcbb.2022.3196394] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Growing studies have shown that miRNAs are inextricably linked with many human diseases, and a great deal of effort has been spent on identifying their potential associations. Compared with traditional experimental methods, computational approaches have achieved promising results. In this article, we propose a graph representation learning method to predict miRNA-disease associations. Specifically, we first integrate the verified miRNA-disease associations with the similarity information of miRNA and disease to construct a miRNA-disease heterogeneous graph. Then, we apply a graph attention network to aggregate the neighbor information of nodes in each layer, and then feed the representation of the hidden layer into the structure-aware jumping knowledge network to obtain the global features of nodes. The output features of miRNAs and diseases are then concatenated and fed into a fully connected layer to score the potential associations. Through five-fold cross-validation, the average AUC, accuracy and precision values of our model are 93.30%, 85.18% and 88.90%, respectively. In addition, for three case studies of the esophageal tumor, lymphoma and prostate tumor, 46, 45 and 45 of the top 50 miRNAs predicted by our model were confirmed by relevant databases. Overall, our method could provide a reliable alternative for miRNA-disease association prediction.
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Chen ZH, Zhao BW, Li JQ, Guo ZH, You ZH. GraphCPIs: A novel graph-based computational model for potential compound-protein interactions. MOLECULAR THERAPY. NUCLEIC ACIDS 2023; 32:721-728. [PMID: 37251691 PMCID: PMC10209012 DOI: 10.1016/j.omtn.2023.04.030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/15/2022] [Accepted: 04/28/2023] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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Identifying proteins that interact with drug compounds has been recognized as an important part in the process of drug discovery. Despite extensive efforts that have been invested in predicting compound-protein interactions (CPIs), existing traditional methods still face several challenges. The computer-aided methods can identify high-quality CPI candidates instantaneously. In this research, a novel model is named GraphCPIs, proposed to improve the CPI prediction accuracy. First, we establish the adjacent matrix of entities connected to both drugs and proteins from the collected dataset. Then, the feature representation of nodes could be obtained by using the graph convolutional network and Grarep embedding model. Finally, an extreme gradient boosting (XGBoost) classifier is exploited to identify potential CPIs based on the stacked two kinds of features. The results demonstrate that GraphCPIs achieves the best performance, whose average predictive accuracy rate reaches 90.09%, average area under the receiver operating characteristic curve is 0.9572, and the average area under the precision and recall curve is 0.9621. Moreover, comparative experiments reveal that our method surpasses the state-of-the-art approaches in the field of accuracy and other indicators with the same experimental environment. We believe that the GraphCPIs model will provide valuable insight to discover novel candidate drug-related proteins.
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- Zhan-Heng Chen
- Department of Clinical Anesthesiology, Faculty of Anesthesiology, Naval Medical University, Shanghai 200433, China
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- The Xinjiang Technical Institute of Physics & Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Urumqi 830011, China
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- College of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China
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- Institute of Machine Learning and Systems Biology, School of Electronics and Information Engineering, Tongji University, Caoan Road 4800, Shanghai 201804, China
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- School of Computer Science, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an 710129, China
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Meng X, Shang J, Ge D, Yang Y, Zhang T, Liu JX. ETGPDA: identification of piRNA-disease associations based on embedding transformation graph convolutional network. BMC Genomics 2023; 24:279. [PMID: 37226081 PMCID: PMC10210294 DOI: 10.1186/s12864-023-09380-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/24/2023] [Accepted: 05/15/2023] [Indexed: 05/26/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Piwi-interacting RNAs (piRNAs) have been proven to be closely associated with human diseases. The identification of the potential associations between piRNA and disease is of great significance for complex diseases. Traditional "wet experiment" is time-consuming and high-priced, predicting the piRNA-disease associations by computational methods is of great significance. METHODS In this paper, a method based on the embedding transformation graph convolution network is proposed to predict the piRNA-disease associations, named ETGPDA. Specifically, a heterogeneous network is constructed based on the similarity information of piRNA and disease, as well as the known piRNA-disease associations, which is applied to extract low-dimensional embeddings of piRNA and disease based on graph convolutional network with an attention mechanism. Furthermore, the embedding transformation module is developed for the problem of embedding space inconsistency, which is lightweighter, stronger learning ability and higher accuracy. Finally, the piRNA-disease association score is calculated by the similarity of the piRNA and disease embedding. RESULTS Evaluated by fivefold cross-validation, the AUC of ETGPDA achieves 0.9603, which is better than the other five selected computational models. The case studies based on Head and neck squamous cell carcinoma and Alzheimer's disease further prove the superior performance of ETGPDA. CONCLUSIONS Hence, the ETGPDA is an effective method for predicting the hidden piRNA-disease associations.
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- Xianghan Meng
- School of Computer Science, Qufu Normal University, Rizhao, 276826 China
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- School of Computer Science, Qufu Normal University, Rizhao, 276826 China
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- School of Computer Science, Qufu Normal University, Rizhao, 276826 China
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- School of Computer Science, Qufu Normal University, Rizhao, 276826 China
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- Science and Technology Innovation Service Institution of Rizhao, Rizhao, 276826 China
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- School of Computer Science, Qufu Normal University, Rizhao, 276826 China
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S S, E R V, Krishnakumar U. Improving miRNA Disease Association Prediction Accuracy Using Integrated Similarity Information and Deep Autoencoders. IEEE/ACM TRANSACTIONS ON COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY AND BIOINFORMATICS 2023; 20:1125-1136. [PMID: 35914051 DOI: 10.1109/tcbb.2022.3195514] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are short endogenous non-encoding RNA molecules (22nt) that have a vital role in many biological and molecular processes inside the human body. Abnormal and dysregulated expressions of miRNAs are correlated with many complex disorders. Time-consuming wet-lab biological experiments are costly and labour-intensive. So, the situation demands feasible and efficient computational approaches for predicting promising miRNAs associated with diseases. Here a two-stage feature pruning approach based on miRNA feature similarity fusion that uses deep attention autoencoder and recursive feature elimination with cross-validation (RFECV) is proposed for predicting unknown miRNA-disease associations. In the first stage, an attention autoencoder captures highly influential features from the fused feature vector. For further pruning of features, RFECV is applied. The resultant features were given to a Random Forest classifier for association prediction. The Highest AUC of 94.41% is attained when all miRNA similarity measures are merged with disease similarities. Case studies were done on two diseases-lymphoma and leukaemia, to examine the reliability of the approach. Comparative analysis shows that the proposed approach outperforms recent methodologies for predicting miRNA-disease associations.
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Liu J, Kuang Z, Deng L. GCNPCA: miRNA-Disease Associations Prediction Algorithm Based on Graph Convolutional Neural Networks. IEEE/ACM TRANSACTIONS ON COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY AND BIOINFORMATICS 2023; 20:1041-1052. [PMID: 36049014 DOI: 10.1109/tcbb.2022.3203564] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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A growing number of studies have confirmed the important role of microRNAs (miRNAs) in human diseases and the aberrant expression of miRNAs affects the onset and progression of human diseases. The discovery of disease-associated miRNAs as new biomarkers promote the progress of disease pathology and clinical medicine. However, only a small proportion of miRNA-disease correlations have been validated by biological experiments. And identifying miRNA-disease associations through biological experiments is both expensive and inefficient. Therefore, it is important to develop efficient and highly accurate computational methods to predict miRNA-disease associations. A miRNA-disease associations prediction algorithm based on Graph Convolutional neural Networks and Principal Component Analysis (GCNPCA) is proposed in this paper. Specifically, the deep topological structure information is extracted from the heterogeneous network composed of miRNA and disease nodes by a Graph Convolutional neural Network (GCN) with an additional attention mechanism. The internal attribute information of the nodes is obtained by the Principal Component Analysis (PCA). Then, the topological structure information and the node attribute information are combined to construct comprehensive feature descriptors. Finally, the Random Forest (RF) is used to train and classify these feature descriptors. In the five-fold cross-validation experiment, the AUC and AUPR for the GCNPCA algorithm are 0.983 and 0.988 respectively.
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He Y, Yang Y, Su X, Zhao B, Xiong S, Hu L. Incorporating higher order network structures to improve miRNA-disease association prediction based on functional modularity. Brief Bioinform 2023; 24:6958503. [PMID: 36562706 DOI: 10.1093/bib/bbac562] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/02/2022] [Revised: 10/29/2022] [Accepted: 11/19/2022] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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As microRNAs (miRNAs) are involved in many essential biological processes, their abnormal expressions can serve as biomarkers and prognostic indicators to prevent the development of complex diseases, thus providing accurate early detection and prognostic evaluation. Although a number of computational methods have been proposed to predict miRNA-disease associations (MDAs) for further experimental verification, their performance is limited primarily by the inadequacy of exploiting lower order patterns characterizing known MDAs to identify missing ones from MDA networks. Hence, in this work, we present a novel prediction model, namely HiSCMDA, by incorporating higher order network structures for improved performance of MDA prediction. To this end, HiSCMDA first integrates miRNA similarity network, disease similarity network and MDA network to preserve the advantages of all these networks. After that, it identifies overlapping functional modules from the integrated network by predefining several higher order connectivity patterns of interest. Last, a path-based scoring function is designed to infer potential MDAs based on network paths across related functional modules. HiSCMDA yields the best performance across all datasets and evaluation metrics in the cross-validation and independent validation experiments. Furthermore, in the case studies, 49 and 50 out of the top 50 miRNAs, respectively, predicted for colon neoplasms and lung neoplasms have been validated by well-established databases. Experimental results show that rich higher order organizational structures exposed in the MDA network gain new insight into the MDA prediction based on higher order connectivity patterns.
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- Yizhou He
- School of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, 430070, China
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- School of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, 430070, China
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- Xinjiang Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Urumqi, 830011, China
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- Xinjiang Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Urumqi, 830011, China
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- School of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, 430070, China
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- Xinjiang Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Urumqi, 830011, China
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Wang W, Chen H. Predicting miRNA-disease associations based on lncRNA-miRNA interactions and graph convolution networks. Brief Bioinform 2023; 24:6918743. [PMID: 36526276 DOI: 10.1093/bib/bbac495] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/08/2022] [Revised: 10/17/2022] [Accepted: 10/18/2022] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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Increasing studies have proved that microRNAs (miRNAs) are critical biomarkers in the development of human complex diseases. Identifying disease-related miRNAs is beneficial to disease prevention, diagnosis and remedy. Based on the assumption that similar miRNAs tend to associate with similar diseases, various computational methods have been developed to predict novel miRNA-disease associations (MDAs). However, selecting proper features for similarity calculation is a challenging task because of data deficiencies in biomedical science. In this study, we propose a deep learning-based computational method named MAGCN to predict potential MDAs without using any similarity measurements. Our method predicts novel MDAs based on known lncRNA-miRNA interactions via graph convolution networks with multichannel attention mechanism and convolutional neural network combiner. Extensive experiments show that the average area under the receiver operating characteristic values obtained by our method under 2-fold, 5-fold and 10-fold cross-validations are 0.8994, 0.9032 and 0.9044, respectively. When compared with five state-of-the-art methods, MAGCN shows improvement in terms of prediction accuracy. In addition, we conduct case studies on three diseases to discover their related miRNAs, and find that all the top 50 predictions for all the three diseases have been supported by established databases. The comprehensive results demonstrate that our method is a reliable tool in detecting new disease-related miRNAs.
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Luo Y, Peng L, Shan W, Sun M, Luo L, Liang W. Machine learning in the development of targeting microRNAs in human disease. Front Genet 2023; 13:1088189. [PMID: 36685965 PMCID: PMC9845262 DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2022.1088189] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/03/2022] [Accepted: 12/12/2022] [Indexed: 01/05/2023] Open
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A microRNA is a small, single-stranded, non-coding ribonucleic acid that plays a crucial role in RNA silencing and can regulate gene expression. With the in-depth study of miRNA in development and disease, miRNA has become an attractive target for novel therapeutic strategies. Exploring miRNA targeting therapy only through experiments is expensive and laborious, so it is essential to develop novel and efficient computational methods to narrow down the search. Recent advances in machine learning applied in biomedical informatics provide opportunities to explore miRNA-targeting drugs, thus promoting miRNA therapeutics. This review provides an overview of recent advancements in miRNA targeting therapeutic using machine learning. First, we mainly describe the basics of predicting miRNA targeting drugs, including pharmacogenomic data resources and data preprocessing. Then we present primary machine learning algorithms and elaborate their application in discovering relationships among miRNAs, drugs, and diseases. Along with the progress of miRNA targeting therapeutics, we finally analyze and discuss the current challenges and opportunities that machine learning confronts.
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- Yuxun Luo
- School of Computer Science and Engineering, Hunan University of Science and Technology, Xiangtan, China,Hunan Key Laboratory for Service computing and Novel Software Technology, Xiangtan, China
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- School of Computer Science and Engineering, Hunan University of Science and Technology, Xiangtan, China,Hunan Key Laboratory for Service computing and Novel Software Technology, Xiangtan, China
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- School of Computer Science, University of South China, Hengyang, China
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- School of Polymer Science and Polymer Engineering, The University of Akron, Akron, OH, United States
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- School of Computer Science, University of South China, Hengyang, China
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- School of Computer Science and Engineering, Hunan University of Science and Technology, Xiangtan, China,Hunan Key Laboratory for Service computing and Novel Software Technology, Xiangtan, China,*Correspondence: Wei Liang,
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microRNAs: Critical Players during Helminth Infections. Microorganisms 2022; 11:microorganisms11010061. [PMID: 36677353 PMCID: PMC9861972 DOI: 10.3390/microorganisms11010061] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/20/2022] [Revised: 12/19/2022] [Accepted: 12/22/2022] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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microRNAs (miRNAs) are a group of small non-coding RNAs that regulate gene expression post-transcriptionally through their interaction with the 3' untranslated regions (3' UTR) of target mRNAs, affecting their stability and/or translation. Therefore, miRNAs regulate biological processes such as signal transduction, cell death, autophagy, metabolism, development, cellular proliferation, and differentiation. Dysregulated expression of microRNAs is associated with infectious diseases, where miRNAs modulate important aspects of the parasite-host interaction. Helminths are parasitic worms that cause various neglected tropical diseases affecting millions worldwide. These parasites have sophisticated mechanisms that give them a surprising immunomodulatory capacity favoring parasite persistence and establishment of infection. In this review, we analyze miRNAs in infections caused by helminths, emphasizing their role in immune regulation and its implication in diagnosis, prognosis, and the development of therapeutic strategies.
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Dong N, Mucke S, Khosla M. MuCoMiD: A Multitask Graph Convolutional Learning Framework for miRNA-Disease Association Prediction. IEEE/ACM TRANSACTIONS ON COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY AND BIOINFORMATICS 2022; 19:3081-3092. [PMID: 35594217 DOI: 10.1109/tcbb.2022.3176456] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Growing evidence from recent studies implies that microRNAs or miRNAs could serve as biomarkers in various complex human diseases. Since wet-lab experiments for detecting miRNAs associated with a disease are expensive and time-consuming, machine learning techniques for miRNA-disease association prediction have attracted much attention in recent years. A big challenge in building reliable machine learning models is that of data scarcity. In particular, existing approaches trained on the available small datasets, even when combined with precalculated handcrafted input features, often suffer from bad generalization and data leakage problems. We overcome the limitations of existing works by proposing a novel multitask graph convolution-based approach, which we refer to as MuCoMiD. MuCoMiD allows automatic feature extraction while incorporating knowledge from five heterogeneous biological information sources (associations between miRNAs/diseases and protein-coding genes (PCGs), interactions between protein-coding genes, miRNA family information, and disease ontology) in a multitask setting which is a novel perspective and has not been studied before. To effectively test the generalization capability of our model, we conduct large-scale experiments on the standard benchmark datasets as well as on our proposed large independent testing sets and case studies. MuCoMiD obtains significantly higher Average Precision (AP) scores than all benchmarked models on three large independent testing sets, especially those with many new miRNAs, as well as in the detection of false positives. Thanks to its capability of learning directly from raw input information, MuCoMiD is easier to maintain and update than handcrafted feature-based methods, which would require recomputation of features every time there is a change in the original information sources (e.g., disease ontology, miRNA/disease-PCG associations, etc.). We share our code for reproducibility and future research at https://git.l3s.uni-hannover.de/dong/cmtt.
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Guo R, Chen H, Wang W, Wu G, Lv F. Predicting potential miRNA-disease associations based on more reliable negative sample selection. BMC Bioinformatics 2022; 23:432. [PMID: 36253735 PMCID: PMC9575264 DOI: 10.1186/s12859-022-04978-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/15/2022] [Accepted: 10/06/2022] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Increasing biomedical studies have shown that the dysfunction of miRNAs is closely related with many human diseases. Identifying disease-associated miRNAs would contribute to the understanding of pathological mechanisms of diseases. Supervised learning-based computational methods have continuously been developed for miRNA-disease association predictions. Negative samples of experimentally-validated uncorrelated miRNA-disease pairs are required for these approaches, while they are not available due to lack of biomedical research interest. Existing methods mainly choose negative samples from the unlabelled ones randomly. Therefore, the selection of more reliable negative samples is of great importance for these methods to achieve satisfactory prediction results. RESULTS In this study, we propose a computational method termed as KR-NSSM which integrates two semi-supervised algorithms to select more reliable negative samples for miRNA-disease association predictions. Our method uses a refined K-means algorithm for preliminary screening of likely negative and positive miRNA-disease samples. A Rocchio classification-based method is applied for further screening to receive more reliable negative and positive samples. We implement ablation tests in KR-NSSM and find that the combination of the two selection procedures would obtain more reliable negative samples for miRNA-disease association predictions. Comprehensive experiments based on fivefold cross-validations demonstrate improvements in prediction accuracy on six classic classifiers and five known miRNA-disease association prediction models when using negative samples chose by our method than by previous negative sample selection strategies. Moreover, 469 out of 1123 selected positive miRNA-disease associations by our method are confirmed by existing databases. CONCLUSIONS Our experiments show that KR-NSSM can screen out more reliable negative samples from the unlabelled ones, which greatly improves the performance of supervised machine learning methods in miRNA-disease association predictions. We expect that KR-NSSM would be a useful tool in negative sample selection in biomedical research.
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- Ruiyu Guo
- School of Software, East China Jiaotong University, Nanchang, 330013, China
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- School of Software, East China Jiaotong University, Nanchang, 330013, China.
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- School of Software, East China Jiaotong University, Nanchang, 330013, China
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- School of Mathematics and Computer Science, Xinyu University, Xinyu, 338004, China
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- School of Software, East China Jiaotong University, Nanchang, 330013, China
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Li M, Fan Y, Zhang Y, Lv Z. Using Sequence Similarity Based on CKSNP Features and a Graph Neural Network Model to Identify miRNA-Disease Associations. Genes (Basel) 2022; 13:1759. [PMID: 36292644 PMCID: PMC9602123 DOI: 10.3390/genes13101759] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/04/2022] [Revised: 09/25/2022] [Accepted: 09/26/2022] [Indexed: 01/12/2024] Open
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Among many machine learning models for analyzing the relationship between miRNAs and diseases, the prediction results are optimized by establishing different machine learning models, and less attention is paid to the feature information contained in the miRNA sequence itself. This study focused on the impact of the different feature information of miRNA sequences on the relationship between miRNA and disease. It was found that when the graph neural network used was the same and the miRNA features based on the K-spacer nucleic acid pair composition (CKSNAP) feature were adopted, a better graph neural network prediction model of miRNA-disease relationship could be built (AUC = 93.71%), which was 0.15% greater than the best model in the literature based on the same benchmark dataset. The optimized model was also used to predict miRNAs related to lung tumors, esophageal tumors, and kidney tumors, and 47, 47, and 37 of the top 50 miRNAs related to three diseases predicted separately by the model were consistent with descriptions in the wet experiment validation database (dbDEMC).
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- Mingxin Li
- College of Biomedical Engineering, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065, China
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- College of Biomedical Engineering, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065, China
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- College of Biology, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu 611756, China
- College of Biology, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA 30302-3965, USA
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- College of Biomedical Engineering, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065, China
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Dong TN, Schrader J, Mücke S, Khosla M. A message passing framework with multiple data integration for miRNA-disease association prediction. Sci Rep 2022; 12:16259. [PMID: 36171337 PMCID: PMC9519928 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-20529-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/14/2022] [Accepted: 09/14/2022] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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Micro RNA or miRNA is a highly conserved class of non-coding RNA that plays an important role in many diseases. Identifying miRNA-disease associations can pave the way for better clinical diagnosis and finding potential drug targets. We propose a biologically-motivated data-driven approach for the miRNA-disease association prediction, which overcomes the data scarcity problem by exploiting information from multiple data sources. The key idea is to enrich the existing miRNA/disease-protein-coding gene (PCG) associations via a message passing framework, followed by the use of disease ontology information for further feature filtering. The enriched and filtered PCG associations are then used to construct the inter-connected miRNA-PCG-disease network to train a structural deep network embedding (SDNE) model. Finally, the pre-trained embeddings and the biologically relevant features from the miRNA family and disease semantic similarity are concatenated to form the pair input representations to a Random Forest classifier whose task is to predict the miRNA-disease association probabilities. We present large-scale comparative experiments, ablation, and case studies to showcase our approach's superiority. Besides, we make the model prediction results for 1618 miRNAs and 3679 diseases, along with all related information, publicly available at http://software.mpm.leibniz-ai-lab.de/ to foster assessments and future adoption.
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- Thi Ngan Dong
- L3S Research Center, Leibniz University of Hannover, Hannover, Germany.
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- L3S Research Center, Leibniz University of Hannover, Hannover, Germany
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- Hannover Unified Biobank (HUB), Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
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- Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), Delft, Netherlands
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Lu S, Liang Y, Li L, Liao S, Ouyang D. Inferring human miRNA–disease associations via multiple kernel fusion on GCNII. Front Genet 2022; 13:980497. [PMID: 36134032 PMCID: PMC9483142 DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2022.980497] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/30/2022] [Accepted: 07/20/2022] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Increasing evidence shows that the occurrence of human complex diseases is closely related to the mutation and abnormal expression of microRNAs(miRNAs). MiRNAs have complex and fine regulatory mechanisms, which makes it a promising target for drug discovery and disease diagnosis. Therefore, predicting the potential miRNA-disease associations has practical significance. In this paper, we proposed an miRNA–disease association predicting method based on multiple kernel fusion on Graph Convolutional Network via Initial residual and Identity mapping (GCNII), called MKFGCNII. Firstly, we built a heterogeneous network of miRNAs and diseases to extract multi-layer features via GCNII. Secondly, multiple kernel fusion method was applied to weight fusion of embeddings at each layer. Finally, Dual Laplacian Regularized Least Squares was used to predict new miRNA–disease associations by the combined kernel in miRNA and disease spaces. Compared with the other methods, MKFGCNII obtained the highest AUC value of 0.9631. Code is available at https://github.com/cuntjx/bioInfo.
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- Shanghui Lu
- School of Computer Science and Engineering, Macau University of Science and Technology, Taipa, China
- School of Mathematics and Physics, Hechi University, Hechi, China
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- School of Computer Science and Engineering, Macau University of Science and Technology, Taipa, China
- Peng Cheng Laboratory, Shenzhen, China
- *Correspondence: Yong Liang,
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- School of Computer Science and Engineering, Macau University of Science and Technology, Taipa, China
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- School of Computer Science and Engineering, Macau University of Science and Technology, Taipa, China
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- School of Computer Science and Engineering, Macau University of Science and Technology, Taipa, China
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Zheng K, Liang Y, Liu YY, Yasir M, Wang P. A decision support system based on multi-sources information to predict piRNA–disease associations using stacked autoencoder. Soft comput 2022. [DOI: 10.1007/s00500-022-07396-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Wang W, Chen H. Predicting miRNA-disease associations based on graph attention networks and dual Laplacian regularized least squares. Brief Bioinform 2022; 23:6645486. [PMID: 35849099 DOI: 10.1093/bib/bbac292] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/30/2022] [Revised: 06/23/2022] [Accepted: 06/26/2022] [Indexed: 01/05/2023] Open
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Increasing biomedical evidence has proved that the dysregulation of miRNAs is associated with human complex diseases. Identification of disease-related miRNAs is of great importance for disease prevention, diagnosis and remedy. To reduce the time and cost of biomedical experiments, there is a strong incentive to develop efficient computational methods to infer potential miRNA-disease associations. Although many computational approaches have been proposed to address this issue, the prediction accuracy needs to be further improved. In this study, we present a computational framework MKGAT to predict possible associations between miRNAs and diseases through graph attention networks (GATs) using dual Laplacian regularized least squares. We use GATs to learn embeddings of miRNAs and diseases on each layer from initial input features of known miRNA-disease associations, intra-miRNA similarities and intra-disease similarities. We then calculate kernel matrices of miRNAs and diseases based on Gaussian interaction profile (GIP) with the learned embeddings. We further fuse the kernel matrices of each layer and initial similarities with attention mechanism. Dual Laplacian regularized least squares are finally applied for new miRNA-disease association predictions with the fused miRNA and disease kernels. Compared with six state-of-the-art methods by 5-fold cross-validations, our method MKGAT receives the highest AUROC value of 0.9627 and AUPR value of 0.7372. We use MKGAT to predict related miRNAs for three cancers and discover that all the top 50 predicted results in the three diseases are confirmed by existing databases. The excellent performance indicates that MKGAT would be a useful computational tool for revealing disease-related miRNAs.
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- Wengang Wang
- School of Software, East China Jiaotong University, Nanchang 330013, China
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- School of Software, East China Jiaotong University, Nanchang 330013, China
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Ji BY, Pan LR, Zhou JR, You ZH, Peng SL. SMMDA: Predicting miRNA-Disease Associations by Incorporating Multiple Similarity Profiles and a Novel Disease Representation. BIOLOGY 2022; 11:biology11050777. [PMID: 35625505 PMCID: PMC9138858 DOI: 10.3390/biology11050777] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/14/2022] [Revised: 05/17/2022] [Accepted: 05/17/2022] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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Simple Summary Predicting possible associations between miRNAs and diseases would provide new perspectives on disease diagnosis, pathogenesis, and gene therapy. In this work, considering the limited accessibility, high time consumption and high cost in traditional biological researches, we presented a novel computational method called SMMDA by incorporating multiple similarity profiles and a novel disease rep-resentation to accelerate the identification of potential miRNA-disease associations. SMMDA was intended to be useful for the prediction of associations between miRNAs and diseases, and to be effective for prevention, diagnosis, treatment and prognosis of Human diseases. Abstract Increasing evidence has suggested that microRNAs (miRNAs) are significant in research on human diseases. Predicting possible associations between miRNAs and diseases would provide new perspectives on disease diagnosis, pathogenesis, and gene therapy. However, considering the intrinsic time-consuming and expensive cost of traditional Vitro studies, there is an urgent need for a computational approach that would allow researchers to identify potential associations between miRNAs and diseases for further research. In this paper, we presented a novel computational method called SMMDA to predict potential miRNA-disease associations. In particular, SMMDA first utilized a new disease representation method (MeSHHeading2vec) based on the network embedding algorithm and then fused it with Gaussian interaction profile kernel similarity information of miRNAs and diseases, disease semantic similarity, and miRNA functional similarity. Secondly, SMMDA utilized a deep auto-coder network to transform the original features further to achieve a better feature representation. Finally, the ensemble learning model, XGBoost, was used as the underlying training and prediction method for SMMDA. In the results, SMMDA acquired a mean accuracy of 86.68% with a standard deviation of 0.42% and a mean AUC of 94.07% with a standard deviation of 0.23%, outperforming many previous works. Moreover, we also compared the predictive ability of SMMDA with different classifiers and different feature descriptors. In the case studies of three common Human diseases, the top 50 candidate miRNAs have 47 (esophageal neoplasms), 48 (breast neoplasms), and 48 (colon neoplasms) are successfully verified by two other databases. The experimental results proved that SMMDA has a reliable prediction ability in predicting potential miRNA-disease associations. Therefore, it is anticipated that SMMDA could be an effective tool for biomedical researchers.
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- Bo-Ya Ji
- College of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha 410200, China; (B.-Y.J.); (L.-R.P.)
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- College of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha 410200, China; (B.-Y.J.); (L.-R.P.)
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- College of Computer Science, Northwestern Polytechnic University, Xi’an 710072, China;
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- College of Computer Science, Northwestern Polytechnic University, Xi’an 710072, China;
- Correspondence: (Z.-H.Y.); (S.-L.P.)
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- College of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha 410200, China; (B.-Y.J.); (L.-R.P.)
- Correspondence: (Z.-H.Y.); (S.-L.P.)
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Yan C, Duan G, Li N, Zhang L, Wu FX, Wang J. PDMDA: predicting deep-level miRNA-disease associations with graph neural networks and sequence features. Bioinformatics 2022; 38:2226-2234. [PMID: 35150255 DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btac077] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/24/2021] [Revised: 01/18/2022] [Accepted: 02/05/2022] [Indexed: 02/03/2023] Open
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MOTIVATION Many studies have shown that microRNAs (miRNAs) play a key role in human diseases. Meanwhile, traditional experimental methods for miRNA-disease association identification are extremely costly, time-consuming and challenging. Therefore, many computational methods have been developed to predict potential associations between miRNAs and diseases. However, those methods mainly predict the existence of miRNA-disease associations, and they cannot predict the deep-level miRNA-disease association types. RESULTS In this study, we propose a new end-to-end deep learning method (called PDMDA) to predict deep-level miRNA-disease associations with graph neural networks (GNNs) and miRNA sequence features. Based on the sequence and structural features of miRNAs, PDMDA extracts the miRNA feature representations by a fully connected network (FCN). The disease feature representations are extracted from the disease-gene network and gene-gene interaction network by GNN model. Finally, a multilayer with three fully connected layers and a softmax layer is designed to predict the final miRNA-disease association scores based on the concatenated feature representations of miRNAs and diseases. Note that PDMDA does not take the miRNA-disease association matrix as input to compute the Gaussian interaction profile similarity. We conduct three experiments based on six association type samples (including circulations, epigenetics, target, genetics, known association of which their types are unknown and unknown association samples). We conduct fivefold cross-validation validation to assess the prediction performance of PDMDA. The area under the receiver operating characteristic curve scores is used as metric. The experiment results show that PDMDA can accurately predict the deep-level miRNA-disease associations. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION Data and source codes are available at https://github.com/27167199/PDMDA.
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- Cheng Yan
- School of Information Science and Engineering, Hunan University of Chinese Medicine, Changsha 410208, China.,School of Computer Science and Engineering, Hunan Provincial Key Lab on Bioinformatics, Central South University, Changsha 410083, China
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- School of Computer Science and Engineering, Hunan Provincial Key Lab on Bioinformatics, Central South University, Changsha 410083, China
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- School of Computer Science and Engineering, Hunan Provincial Key Lab on Bioinformatics, Central South University, Changsha 410083, China
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- School of Computer Science and Engineering, Hunan Provincial Key Lab on Bioinformatics, Central South University, Changsha 410083, China
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- Division of Biomedical Engineering and Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon SK S7N5A9, Canada
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- School of Computer Science and Engineering, Hunan Provincial Key Lab on Bioinformatics, Central South University, Changsha 410083, China
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A miRNA-Disease Association Identification Method Based on Reliable Negative Sample Selection and Improved Single-Hidden Layer Feedforward Neural Network. INFORMATION 2022. [DOI: 10.3390/info13030108] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/04/2022] Open
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miRNAs are a category of important endogenous non-coding small RNAs and are ubiquitous in eukaryotes. They are widely involved in the regulatory process of post-transcriptional gene expression and play a critical part in the development of human diseases. By utilizing recent advancements in big data technology, using bioinformatics methods to identify causative miRNA becomes a hot spot. In this paper, a method called RNSSLFN is proposed to identify the miRNA-disease associations by reliable negative sample selection and an improved single-hidden layer feedforward neural network (SLFN). It involves, firstly, obtaining integrated similarity for miRNAs and diseases; next, selecting reliable negative samples from unknown miRNA-disease associations via distinguishing up-regulated or down-regulated miRNAs; then, introducing an improved SLFN to solve the prediction task. The experimental results on the latest data sets HMDD v3.2 and the framework of 5-fold cross-validation (CV) show that the average AUC and AUPR of RNSSLFN achieve 0.9316 and 0.9065 m, respectively, which are superior to the other three state-of-the-art methods. Furthermore, in the case studies of 10 common cancers, more than 70% of the top 30 predicted miRNA-disease association pairs are verified in the databases, which further confirms the reliability and effectiveness of the RNSSLFN model. Generally, RNSSLFN in predicting miRNA-disease associations has prodigious potential and extensive foreground.
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Li G, Zhang P, Sun W, Ren C, Wang L. Bridging-BPs: a novel approach to predict potential drug-target interactions based on a bridging heterogeneous graph and BPs2vec. Brief Bioinform 2022; 23:6509044. [PMID: 35037024 DOI: 10.1093/bib/bbab557] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/28/2021] [Revised: 11/04/2021] [Accepted: 12/05/2021] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Predicting drug-target interactions (DTIs) is a convenient strategy for drug discovery. Although various computational methods have been put forward in recent years, DTIs prediction is still a challenging task. In this paper, based on indirect prior information (we term them as mediators), we proposed a new model, called Bridging-BPs (bridging paths), for DTIs prediction. Specifically, we regarded linkage process between mediators and DTs (drugs and proteins) as 'bridging' and source (drug)-mediators-destination (protein) as bridging paths. By integrating various bridging paths, we constructed a bridging heterogeneous graph for DTIs. After that, an improved graph-embedding algorithm-BPs2vec-was designed to capture deep topological features underlying the bridging graph, thereby obtaining the low-dimensional node vector representations. Then, the vector representations were fed into a Random Forest classifier to train and score the probability, outputting the final classification results for potential DTIs. Under 5-fold cross validation, our method obtained AUPR of 88.97% and AUC of 88.63%, suggesting that Bridging-BPs could effectively mine the link relationships hidden in indirect prior information and it significantly improved the accuracy and robustness of DTIs prediction without direct prior information. Finally, we confirmed the practical prediction ability of Bridging-BPs by case studies.
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- Guodong Li
- College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, China
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- College of Informatics, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, China
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- College of Informatics, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, China
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- School of Computer Software Convergence Engineering, Kunsan National University, Kunsan, 54150, Korea
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- Big Data and Intelligent Computing Research Center, Guangxi Academy of Science, Nanning, 530007, China
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Zhang L, Zhang Z, Xie J, Zhao Y, Tian G, Jiang H, Tao H, Liu J. Target invasion-triggered signal amplification based on duplex-specific nuclease for selective and sensitive detection of miRNAs. Anal Chim Acta 2022; 1189:339182. [PMID: 34815041 DOI: 10.1016/j.aca.2021.339182] [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: 07/18/2021] [Revised: 10/06/2021] [Accepted: 10/15/2021] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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Dysregulation of MicroRNAs (miRNAs) cause various diseases in humans, and developing reliable methods to detect miRNAs is critical for molecular diagnostics and personalized medicine. This study developed a toehold-mediated target invasion combined with duplex-specificity nuclease (DSN)-assisted cyclic signal amplification fluorescent sensor. Herein, we take advantage of toehold-mediated target invasion process to ensure the high selectivity of miRNA determination, coupled with the unique cleavage properties of DSN to improve the sensitivity of the strategy significantly. Throughout the assay, the whole procedure of detection the target let-7a has a limit of detection (LOD) as low as 9.00 fM and an excellent linear range from 1 pM to 100 nM for no more than 60 min. The assay shows reasonable specificity in detecting mismatched miRNAs and can realize single-base discrimination in the let-7 families. Finally, the developed method was applied to detect the miRNAs extracted from human serum. The results were consistent with those based on the quantitative reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction(qRT-PCR) method, which shows great potential application value in clinical molecular diagnostics and biological research.
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- Limei Zhang
- Department of Laboratory Medicine, The Affiliated Hospital of Southwest Medical, University, Luzhou, 646000, PR China
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine, The Affiliated Hospital of Southwest Medical, University, Luzhou, 646000, PR China
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine, The Affiliated Hospital of Southwest Medical, University, Luzhou, 646000, PR China
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine, The Affiliated Hospital of Southwest Medical, University, Luzhou, 646000, PR China
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine, The Affiliated Hospital of Southwest Medical, University, Luzhou, 646000, PR China
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine, The Affiliated Hospital of Southwest Medical, University, Luzhou, 646000, PR China
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine, The Affiliated Hospital of Southwest Medical, University, Luzhou, 646000, PR China.
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine, The Affiliated Hospital of Southwest Medical, University, Luzhou, 646000, PR China.
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Zhou S, Sun W, Zhang P, Li L. Predicting Pseudogene-miRNA Associations Based on Feature Fusion and Graph Auto-Encoder. Front Genet 2021; 12:781277. [PMID: 34966413 PMCID: PMC8710693 DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2021.781277] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/22/2021] [Accepted: 11/16/2021] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Pseudogenes were originally regarded as non-functional components scattered in the genome during evolution. Recent studies have shown that pseudogenes can be transcribed into long non-coding RNA and play a key role at multiple functional levels in different physiological and pathological processes. microRNAs (miRNAs) are a type of non-coding RNA, which plays important regulatory roles in cells. Numerous studies have shown that pseudogenes and miRNAs have interactions and form a ceRNA network with mRNA to regulate biological processes and involve diseases. Exploring the associations of pseudogenes and miRNAs will facilitate the clinical diagnosis of some diseases. Here, we propose a prediction model PMGAE (Pseudogene–MiRNA association prediction based on the Graph Auto-Encoder), which incorporates feature fusion, graph auto-encoder (GAE), and eXtreme Gradient Boosting (XGBoost). First, we calculated three types of similarities including Jaccard similarity, cosine similarity, and Pearson similarity between nodes based on the biological characteristics of pseudogenes and miRNAs. Subsequently, we fused the above similarities to construct a similarity profile as the initial representation features for nodes. Then, we aggregated the similarity profiles and associations of nodes to obtain the low-dimensional representation vector of nodes through a GAE. In the last step, we fed these representation vectors into an XGBoost classifier to predict new pseudogene–miRNA associations (PMAs). The results of five-fold cross validation show that PMGAE achieves a mean AUC of 0.8634 and mean AUPR of 0.8966. Case studies further substantiated the reliability of PMGAE for mining PMAs and the study of endogenous RNA networks in relation to diseases.
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- Shijia Zhou
- Hubei Key Laboratory of Agricultural Bioinformatics, College of Informatics, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China
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- Hubei Key Laboratory of Agricultural Bioinformatics, College of Informatics, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China
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- Hubei Key Laboratory of Agricultural Bioinformatics, College of Informatics, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China
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- Hubei Key Laboratory of Agricultural Bioinformatics, College of Informatics, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China.,Hubei Hongshan Laboratory, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China
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Dai Q, Wang Z, Liu Z, Duan X, Song J, Guo M. Predicting miRNA-disease associations using an ensemble learning framework with resampling method. Brief Bioinform 2021; 23:6470964. [PMID: 34929742 DOI: 10.1093/bib/bbab543] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/03/2021] [Revised: 11/05/2021] [Accepted: 11/25/2021] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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MOTIVATION Accumulating evidences have indicated that microRNA (miRNA) plays a crucial role in the pathogenesis and progression of various complex diseases. Inferring disease-associated miRNAs is significant to explore the etiology, diagnosis and treatment of human diseases. As the biological experiments are time-consuming and labor-intensive, developing effective computational methods has become indispensable to identify associations between miRNAs and diseases. RESULTS We present an Ensemble learning framework with Resampling method for MiRNA-Disease Association (ERMDA) prediction to discover potential disease-related miRNAs. Firstly, the resampling strategy is proposed for building multiple different balanced training subsets to address the challenge of sample imbalance within the database. Then, ERMDA extracts miRNA and disease feature representations by integrating miRNA-miRNA similarities, disease-disease similarities and experimentally verified miRNA-disease association information. Next, the feature selection approach is applied to reduce the redundant information and increase the diversity among these subsets. Lastly, ERMDA constructs an individual learner on each subset to yield primitive outcomes, and the soft voting method is introduced for making the final decision based on the prediction results of individual learners. A series of experimental results demonstrates that ERMDA outperforms other state-of-the-art methods on both balanced and unbalanced testing sets. Besides, case studies conducted on the three human diseases further confirm the ERMDA's prediction capability for identifying potential disease-related miRNAs. In conclusion, these experimental results demonstrate that our method can serve as an effective and reliable tool for researchers to explore the regulatory role of miRNAs 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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- 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
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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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Nguyen VT, Le TTK, Nguyen TQV, Tran DH. Inferring miRNA-disease associations using collaborative filtering and resource allocation on a tripartite graph. BMC Med Genomics 2021; 14:225. [PMID: 34789252 PMCID: PMC8600685 DOI: 10.1186/s12920-021-01078-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/18/2021] [Accepted: 09/07/2021] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Developing efficient and successful computational methods to infer potential miRNA-disease associations is urgently needed and is attracting many computer scientists in recent years. The reason is that miRNAs are involved in many important biological processes and it is tremendously expensive and time-consuming to do biological experiments to verify miRNA-disease associations. METHODS In this paper, we proposed a new method to infer miRNA-disease associations using collaborative filtering and resource allocation algorithms on a miRNA-disease-lncRNA tripartite graph. It combined the collaborative filtering algorithm in CFNBC model to solve the problem of imbalanced data and the method for association prediction established multiple types of known associations among multiple objects presented in TPGLDA model. RESULTS The experimental results showed that our proposed method achieved a reliable performance with Area Under Roc Curve (AUC) and Area Under Precision-Recall Curve (AUPR) values of 0.9788 and 0.9373, respectively, under fivefold-cross-validation experiments. It outperformed than some other previous methods such as DCSMDA and TPGLDA. Furthermore, it demonstrated the ability to derive new associations between miRNAs and diseases among 8, 19 and 14 new associations out of top 40 predicted associations in case studies of Prostatic Neoplasms, Heart Failure, and Glioma diseases, respectively. All of these new predicted associations have been confirmed by recent literatures. Besides, it could discover new associations for new diseases (or miRNAs) without any known associations as demonstrated in the case study of Open-angle glaucoma disease. CONCLUSION With the reliable performance to infer new associations between miRNAs and diseases as well as to discover new associations for new diseases (or miRNAs) without any known associations, our proposed method can be considered as a powerful tool to infer miRNA-disease associations.
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- Van Tinh Nguyen
- Faculty of Information Technology, Hanoi University of Industry, Hanoi, Vietnam
- Faculty of Information Technology, Hanoi National University of Education, Hanoi, Vietnam
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- Faculty of Information Technology, Hanoi National University of Education, Hanoi, Vietnam
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- Faculty of Information Technology, The University of Da Nang - University of Science and Education, Da Nang, Vietnam
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- Faculty of Information Technology, Hanoi National University of Education, Hanoi, Vietnam.
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Human microRNA similarity in breast cancer. Biosci Rep 2021; 41:229885. [PMID: 34612484 PMCID: PMC8529337 DOI: 10.1042/bsr20211123] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/10/2021] [Revised: 09/28/2021] [Accepted: 10/04/2021] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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MicroRNAs (miRNAs) play important roles in a variety of human diseases, including breast cancer. A number of miRNAs are up- and down-regulated in breast cancer. However, little is known about miRNA similarity and similarity network in breast cancer. Here, a collection of 272 breast cancer-associated miRNA precursors (pre-miRNAs) were utilized to calculate similarities of sequences, target genes, pathways and functions and construct a combined similarity network. Well-characterized miRNAs and their similarity network were highlighted. Interestingly, miRNA sequence-dependent similarity networks were not identified in spite of sequence–target gene association. Similarity networks with minimum and maximum number of miRNAs originate from pathway and mature sequence, respectively. The breast cancer-associated miRNAs were divided into seven functional classes (classes I–VII) followed by disease enrichment analysis and novel miRNA-based disease similarities were found. The finding would provide insight into miRNA similarity, similarity network and disease heterogeneity in breast cancer.
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Li HY, Chen HY, Wang L, Song SJ, You ZH, Yan X, Yu JQ. A structural deep network embedding model for predicting associations between miRNA and disease based on molecular association network. Sci Rep 2021; 11:12640. [PMID: 34135401 PMCID: PMC8209151 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-91991-w] [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: 11/29/2020] [Accepted: 04/30/2021] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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Previous studies indicated that miRNA plays an important role in human biological processes especially in the field of diseases. However, constrained by biotechnology, only a small part of the miRNA-disease associations has been verified by biological experiment. This impel that more and more researchers pay attention to develop efficient and high-precision computational methods for predicting the potential miRNA-disease associations. Based on the assumption that molecules are related to each other in human physiological processes, we developed a novel structural deep network embedding model (SDNE-MDA) for predicting miRNA-disease association using molecular associations network. Specifically, the SDNE-MDA model first integrating miRNA attribute information by Chao Game Representation (CGR) algorithm and disease attribute information by disease semantic similarity. Secondly, we extract feature by structural deep network embedding from the heterogeneous molecular associations network. Then, a comprehensive feature descriptor is constructed by combining attribute information and behavior information. Finally, Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) is adopted to train and classify these feature descriptors. In the five-fold cross validation experiment, SDNE-MDA achieved AUC of 0.9447 with the prediction accuracy of 87.38% on the HMDD v3.0 dataset. To further verify the performance of SDNE-MDA, we contrasted it with different feature extraction models and classifier models. Moreover, the case studies with three important human diseases, including Breast Neoplasms, Kidney Neoplasms, Lymphoma were implemented by the proposed model. As a result, 47, 46 and 46 out of top-50 predicted disease-related miRNAs have been confirmed by independent databases. These results anticipate that SDNE-MDA would be a reliable computational tool for predicting potential miRNA-disease associations.
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- Hao-Yuan Li
- grid.411510.00000 0000 9030 231XSchool of Computer Science and Technology, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou, 221116 China
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- Xinjiang Autonomous Region tax Service, State Taxation Administration, Urumqi, 830011 China
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- grid.9227.e0000000119573309Xinjiang Technical Institutes of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Urumqi, 830011 China
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- Science & Technology Department of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Urumqi, 830011 China
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- grid.9227.e0000000119573309Xinjiang Technical Institutes of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Urumqi, 830011 China
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- grid.411510.00000 0000 9030 231XSchool of Computer Science and Technology, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou, 221116 China
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- grid.411510.00000 0000 9030 231XSchool of Computer Science and Technology, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou, 221116 China
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Ding Y, Lei X, Liao B, Wu FX. Predicting miRNA-Disease Associations Based on Multi-View Variational Graph Auto-Encoder with Matrix Factorization. IEEE J Biomed Health Inform 2021; 26:446-457. [PMID: 34111017 DOI: 10.1109/jbhi.2021.3088342] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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MicroRNAs (miRNAs) have been proved to play critical roles in diverse biological processes, including the human disease development process. Exploring the potential associations between miRNAs and diseases can help us better understand complex disease mechanisms. Given that traditional biological experiments are expensive and time-consuming, computational models can serve as efficient means to uncover potential miRNA-disease associations. This study presents a new computational model based on variational graph auto-encoder with matrix factorization (VGAMF) for miRNA-disease association prediction. More specifically, VGAMF first integrates four different types of information about miRNAs into an miRNA comprehensive similarity network and two types of information about diseases into a disease comprehensive similarity network, respectively. Then, VGAMF gets the non-linear representations of miRNAs and diseases, respectively, from those two comprehensive similarity networks with variational graph auto-encoders. Simultaneously, a non-negative matrix factorization is conducted on the miRNA-disease association matrix to get the linear representations of miRNAs and diseases. Finally, a fully connected neural network combines linear and non-linear representations of miRNAs and diseases to get the final predicted association score for all miRNA-disease pairs. In the 10-fold cross-validation experiments, VGAMF achieves an average AUC of 0.9280 on HMDD v2.0 and 0.9470 on HMDD v3.2, which outperforms other competing methods. Besides, the case studies on colon cancer and esophageal cancer further demonstrate the effectiveness of VGAMF in predicting novel miRNA-disease associations.
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Li Z, Jiang K, Qin S, Zhong Y, Elofsson A. GCSENet: A GCN, CNN and SENet ensemble model for microRNA-disease association prediction. PLoS Comput Biol 2021; 17:e1009048. [PMID: 34081706 PMCID: PMC8205154 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1009048] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/22/2020] [Revised: 06/15/2021] [Accepted: 05/06/2021] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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Recently, an increasing number of studies have demonstrated that miRNAs are involved in human diseases, indicating that miRNAs might be a potential pathogenic factor for various diseases. Therefore, figuring out the relationship between miRNAs and diseases plays a critical role in not only the development of new drugs, but also the formulation of individualized diagnosis and treatment. As the prediction of miRNA-disease association via biological experiments is expensive and time-consuming, computational methods have a positive effect on revealing the association. In this study, a novel prediction model integrating GCN, CNN and Squeeze-and-Excitation Networks (GCSENet) was constructed for the identification of miRNA-disease association. The model first captured features by GCN based on a heterogeneous graph including diseases, genes and miRNAs. Then, considering the different effects of genes on each type of miRNA and disease, as well as the different effects of the miRNA-gene and disease-gene relationships on miRNA-disease association, a feature weight was set and a combination of miRNA-gene and disease-gene associations was added as feature input for the convolution operation in CNN. Furthermore, the squeeze and excitation blocks of SENet were applied to determine the importance of each feature channel and enhance useful features by means of the attention mechanism, thus achieving a satisfactory prediction of miRNA-disease association. The proposed method was compared against other state-of-the-art methods. It achieved an AUROC score of 95.02% and an AUPR score of 95.55% in a 10-fold cross-validation, which led to the finding that the proposed method is superior to these popular methods on most of the performance evaluation indexes. Identifying miRNA-disease associations accelerates the understanding towards pathogenicity, which is beneficial for the development of treatment tools for diseases. Different from existing methods, our GCSENet captures the deep relationship between miRNA and disease through three heterogeneous graphs (disease, gene and miRNA) to promote an accurate prediction result. We performed the 10-fold cross validation to evaluate the performance of GCSENet, which can outperform many classic methods. Furthermore, we carried out case studies on four important diseases, which were used to evaluate the performance of our model regarding to the associations with experimental evidences in literature. The result shows that most predicted miRNAs (48 for lung neoplasms, 48 for heart failure, 48 for breast cancer and 50 for glioblastoma) in the top 50 predictions were confirmed in HMDD v3.0. As a result, it shows that GCSENet can make reliable predictions and guide experiments to uncover more miRNA-disease associations.
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- Zhong Li
- Department of Mathematical Sciences, School of Science, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Hangzhou, China
- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Science for Life Laboratory, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Solna, Sweden
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- Department of Mathematical Sciences, School of Science, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Mathematical Sciences, School of Science, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Mathematical Sciences, School of Science, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Science for Life Laboratory, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Solna, Sweden
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Chu Y, Wang X, Dai Q, Wang Y, Wang Q, Peng S, Wei X, Qiu J, Salahub DR, Xiong Y, Wei DQ. MDA-GCNFTG: identifying miRNA-disease associations based on graph convolutional networks via graph sampling through the feature and topology graph. Brief Bioinform 2021; 22:6261915. [PMID: 34009265 DOI: 10.1093/bib/bbab165] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/10/2021] [Revised: 04/02/2021] [Accepted: 04/08/2021] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Accurate identification of the miRNA-disease associations (MDAs) helps to understand the etiology and mechanisms of various diseases. However, the experimental methods are costly and time-consuming. Thus, it is urgent to develop computational methods towards the prediction of MDAs. Based on the graph theory, the MDA prediction is regarded as a node classification task in the present study. To solve this task, we propose a novel method MDA-GCNFTG, which predicts MDAs based on Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) via graph sampling through the Feature and Topology Graph to improve the training efficiency and accuracy. This method models both the potential connections of feature space and the structural relationships of MDA data. The nodes of the graphs are represented by the disease semantic similarity, miRNA functional similarity and Gaussian interaction profile kernel similarity. Moreover, we considered six tasks simultaneously on the MDA prediction problem at the first time, which ensure that under both balanced and unbalanced sample distribution, MDA-GCNFTG can predict not only new MDAs but also new diseases without known related miRNAs and new miRNAs without known related diseases. The results of 5-fold cross-validation show that the MDA-GCNFTG method has achieved satisfactory performance on all six tasks and is significantly superior to the classic machine learning methods and the state-of-the-art MDA prediction methods. Moreover, the effectiveness of GCNs via the graph sampling strategy and the feature and topology graph in MDA-GCNFTG has also been demonstrated. More importantly, case studies for two diseases and three miRNAs are conducted and achieved satisfactory performance.
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- Yanyi Chu
- School of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
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- School of Electronic, Information and Electrical Engineering (SEIEE), Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
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- School of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
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- School of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
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- School of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
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- College of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, Hunan University, China
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Calgary, Fellow Royal Society of Canada and Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Metabolism, Shanghai-Islamabad-Belgrade Joint Innovation Center on Antibacterial Resistances, Joint International Research Laboratory of Metabolic & Developmental Sciences and School of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200030, P.R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Metabolism, Shanghai-Islamabad-Belgrade Joint Innovation Center on Antibacterial Resistances, Joint International Research Laboratory of Metabolic & Developmental Sciences and School of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200030, P.R. China
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INTRODUCTION Knowledge graphs have proven to be promising systems of information storage and retrieval. Due to the recent explosion of heterogeneous multimodal data sources generated in the biomedical domain, and an industry shift toward a systems biology approach, knowledge graphs have emerged as attractive methods of data storage and hypothesis generation. AREAS COVERED In this review, the author summarizes the applications of knowledge graphs in drug discovery. They evaluate their utility; differentiating between academic exercises in graph theory, and useful tools to derive novel insights, highlighting target identification and drug repurposing as two areas showing particular promise. They provide a case study on COVID-19, summarizing the research that used knowledge graphs to identify repurposable drug candidates. They describe the dangers of degree and literature bias, and discuss mitigation strategies. EXPERT OPINION Whilst knowledge graphs and graph-based machine learning have certainly shown promise, they remain relatively immature technologies. Many popular link prediction algorithms fail to address strong biases in biomedical data, and only highlight biological associations, failing to model causal relationships in complex dynamic biological systems. These problems need to be addressed before knowledge graphs reach their true potential in drug discovery.
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- Finlay MacLean
- Target Identification., BenevolentAI, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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Li HY, You ZH, Wang L, Yan X, Li ZW. DF-MDA: An effective diffusion-based computational model for predicting miRNA-disease association. Mol Ther 2021; 29:1501-1511. [PMID: 33429082 DOI: 10.1016/j.ymthe.2021.01.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/07/2020] [Revised: 12/21/2020] [Accepted: 01/01/2021] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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It is reported that microRNAs (miRNAs) play an important role in various human diseases. However, the mechanisms of miRNA in these diseases have not been fully understood. Therefore, detecting potential miRNA-disease associations has far-reaching significance for pathological development and the diagnosis and treatment of complex diseases. In this study, we propose a novel diffusion-based computational method, DF-MDA, for predicting miRNA-disease association based on the assumption that molecules are related to each other in human physiological processes. Specifically, we first construct a heterogeneous network by integrating various known associations among miRNAs, diseases, proteins, long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs), and drugs. Then, more representative features are extracted through a diffusion-based machine-learning method. Finally, the Random Forest classifier is adopted to classify miRNA-disease associations. In the 5-fold cross-validation experiment, the proposed model obtained the average area under the curve (AUC) of 0.9321 on the HMDD v3.0 dataset. To further verify the prediction performance of the proposed model, DF-MDA was applied in three significant human diseases, including lymphoma, lung neoplasms, and colon neoplasms. As a result, 47, 46, and 47 out of top 50 predictions were validated by independent databases. These experimental results demonstrated that DF-MDA is a reliable and efficient method for predicting potential miRNA-disease associations.
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- Hao-Yuan Li
- School of Computer Science and Technology, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou 221116, China
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- Xinjiang Technical Institutes of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Urumqi 830011, China.
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- Xinjiang Technical Institutes of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Urumqi 830011, China; College of Information Science and Engineering, Zaozhuang University, Zaozhuang 277100, China.
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- School of Computer Science and Technology, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou 221116, China; School of Foreign Languages, Zaozhuang University, Zaozhuang, Shandong 277100, China.
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- School of Computer Science and Technology, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou 221116, China
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Ding Y, Lei X, Liao B, Wu FX. Machine learning approaches for predicting biomolecule-disease associations. Brief Funct Genomics 2021; 20:273-287. [PMID: 33554238 DOI: 10.1093/bfgp/elab002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Biomolecules, such as microRNAs, circRNAs, lncRNAs and genes, are functionally interdependent in human cells, and all play critical roles in diverse fundamental and vital biological processes. The dysregulations of such biomolecules can cause diseases. Identifying the associations between biomolecules and diseases can uncover the mechanisms of complex diseases, which is conducive to their diagnosis, treatment, prognosis and prevention. Due to the time consumption and cost of biologically experimental methods, many computational association prediction methods have been proposed in the past few years. In this study, we provide a comprehensive review of machine learning-based approaches for predicting disease-biomolecule associations with multi-view data sources. Firstly, we introduce some databases and general strategies for integrating multi-view data sources in the prediction models. Then we discuss several feature representation methods for machine learning-based prediction models. Thirdly, we comprehensively review machine learning-based prediction approaches in three categories: basic machine learning methods, matrix completion-based methods and deep learning-based methods, while discussing their advantages and disadvantages. Finally, we provide some perspectives for further improving biomolecule-disease prediction methods.
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- Yulian Ding
- Division of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Saskatchewan
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- School of Computer Science at Shaanxi Normal University
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- School of Mathematics and Statistics at Hainan Normal University, Haikou, China
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- College of Engineering and the Department of Computer Science at University of Saskatchewan
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Li Z, Li J, Nie R, You ZH, Bao W. A graph auto-encoder model for miRNA-disease associations prediction. Brief Bioinform 2020; 22:5929824. [PMID: 34293850 DOI: 10.1093/bib/bbaa240] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/05/2020] [Revised: 08/26/2020] [Accepted: 08/27/2020] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
Abstract
Emerging evidence indicates that the abnormal expression of miRNAs involves in the evolution and progression of various human complex diseases. Identifying disease-related miRNAs as new biomarkers can promote the development of disease pathology and clinical medicine. However, designing biological experiments to validate disease-related miRNAs is usually time-consuming and expensive. Therefore, it is urgent to design effective computational methods for predicting potential miRNA-disease associations. Inspired by the great progress of graph neural networks in link prediction, we propose a novel graph auto-encoder model, named GAEMDA, to identify the potential miRNA-disease associations in an end-to-end manner. More specifically, the GAEMDA model applies a graph neural networks-based encoder, which contains aggregator function and multi-layer perceptron for aggregating nodes' neighborhood information, to generate the low-dimensional embeddings of miRNA and disease nodes and realize the effective fusion of heterogeneous information. Then, the embeddings of miRNA and disease nodes are fed into a bilinear decoder to identify the potential links between miRNA and disease nodes. The experimental results indicate that GAEMDA achieves the average area under the curve of $93.56\pm 0.44\%$ under 5-fold cross-validation. Besides, we further carried out case studies on colon neoplasms, esophageal neoplasms and kidney neoplasms. As a result, 48 of the top 50 predicted miRNAs associated with these diseases are confirmed by the database of differentially expressed miRNAs in human cancers and microRNA deregulation in human disease database, respectively. The satisfactory prediction performance suggests that GAEMDA model could serve as a reliable tool to guide the following researches on the regulatory role of miRNAs. Besides, the source codes are available at https://github.com/chimianbuhetang/GAEMDA.
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Affiliation(s)
- Zhengwei Li
- Engineering Research Center of Mine Digitalization of Ministry of Education and School of Computer Science and Technology, China University of Mining and Technology
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- School of Computer Science and Technology, China University of Mining and Technology
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- School of Computer Science and Technology, China University of Mining and Technology
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- Xinjiang Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Science
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- School of Information Engineering, Xuzhou University of Technology
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Ji BY, You ZH, Chen ZH, Wong L, Yi HC. NEMPD: a network embedding-based method for predicting miRNA-disease associations by preserving behavior and attribute information. BMC Bioinformatics 2020; 21:401. [PMID: 32912137 PMCID: PMC7646193 DOI: 10.1186/s12859-020-03716-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/10/2020] [Accepted: 08/19/2020] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
Abstract
Background As an important non-coding RNA, microRNA (miRNA) plays a significant role in a series of life processes and is closely associated with a variety of Human diseases. Hence, identification of potential miRNA-disease associations can make great contributions to the research and treatment of Human diseases. However, to our knowledge, many existing computational methods only utilize the single type of known association information between miRNAs and diseases to predict their potential associations, without focusing on their interactions or associations with other types of molecules. Results In this paper, we propose a network embedding-based method for predicting miRNA-disease associations by preserving behavior and attribute information. Firstly, a heterogeneous network is constructed by integrating known associations among miRNA, protein and disease, and the network representation method Learning Graph Representations with Global Structural Information (GraRep) is implemented to learn the behavior information of miRNAs and diseases in the network. Then, the behavior information of miRNAs and diseases is combined with the attribute information of them to represent miRNA-disease association pairs. Finally, the prediction model is established based on the Random Forest algorithm. Under the five-fold cross validation, the proposed NEMPD model obtained average 85.41% prediction accuracy with 80.96% sensitivity at the AUC of 91.58%. Furthermore, the performance of NEMPD is also validated by the case studies. Among the top 50 predicted disease-related miRNAs, 48 (breast neoplasms), 47 (colon neoplasms), 47 (lung neoplasms) were confirmed by two other databases. Conclusions The proposed NEMPD model has a good performance in predicting the potential associations between miRNAs and diseases, and has great potency in the field of miRNA-disease association prediction in the future.
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- Bo-Ya Ji
- Xinjiang Technical Institutes of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Urumqi, 830011, China.,University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China
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- Xinjiang Technical Institutes of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Urumqi, 830011, China. .,University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China.
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- Xinjiang Technical Institutes of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Urumqi, 830011, China.,University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China
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- Xinjiang Technical Institutes of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Urumqi, 830011, China.,University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China
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- Xinjiang Technical Institutes of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Urumqi, 830011, China.,University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China
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