MSPCD: predicting circRNA-disease associations via integrating multi-source data and hierarchical neural network
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Lei Deng1, Dayun Liu1, Yizhan Li1
1School of Computer Science and Engineering, Central South University, Hunan, 410083, China.
Background:
Increasing evidence shows that circRNA plays an essential regulatory role in diseases through interactions with disease-related miRNAs. Identifying circRNA-disease associations is of great significance to precise diagnosis and treatment of diseases. However, the traditional biological experiment is usually time-consuming and expensive. Hence, it is necessary to develop a computational framework to infer unknown associations between circRNA and disease.
Results:
In this work, we propose an efficient framework called MSPCD to infer unknown circRNA-disease associations. To obtain circRNA similarity and disease similarity accurately, MSPCD first integrates more biological information such as circRNA-miRNA associations, circRNA-gene ontology associations, then extracts circRNA and disease high-order features by the neural network. Finally, MSPCD employs DNN to predict unknown circRNA-disease associations.
Conclusions:
Experiment results show that MSPCD achieves a significantly more accurate performance compared with previous state-of-the-art methods on the circFunBase dataset. The case study also demonstrates that MSPCD is a promising tool that can effectively infer unknown circRNA-disease associations.
