NCP-BiRW: A Hybrid Approach for Predicting Long Noncoding RNA-Disease Associations by Network Consistency Projection and Bi-Random Walk

Abstract

Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) play significant roles in the disease process. Understanding the pathological mechanisms of lncRNAs during the course of various diseases will help clinicians prevent and treat diseases. With the emergence of high-throughput techniques, many biological experiments have been developed to study lncRNA-disease associations. Because experimental methods are costly, slow, and laborious, a growing number of computational models have emerged. Here, we present a new approach using network consistency projection and bi-random walk (NCP-BiRW) to infer hidden lncRNA-disease associations. First, integrated similarity networks for lncRNAs and diseases were constructed by merging similarity information. Subsequently, network consistency projection was applied to calculate space projection scores for lncRNAs and diseases, which were then introduced into a bi-random walk method for association prediction. To test model performance, we employed 5- and 10-fold cross-validation, with the area under the receiver operating characteristic curve as the evaluation indicator. The computational results showed that our method outperformed the other five advanced algorithms. In addition, the novel method was applied to another dataset in the Mammalian ncRNA-Disease Repository (MNDR) database and showed excellent performance. Finally, case studies were carried out on atherosclerosis and leukemia to confirm the effectiveness of our method in practice. In conclusion, we could infer lncRNA-disease associations using the NCP-BiRW model, which may benefit biomedical studies in the future.

Predicting lncRNA–Disease Associations Based on a Dual-Path Feature Extraction Network with Multiple Sources of Information Integration

“…Birandom walks are also available in MSF-UBRW, where the interaction between lncRNAs and diseases was reconstructed using WKNKN based on unbalanced birandom walks and used as a transfer matrix for the respective networks. Similar birandom walk methods are used in NCP-BiRW and lung cancer prediction . Although existing network propagation random walk algorithms can utilize the neighbor information on nodes, the experimental process is cumbersome, and the resulting association scores are relatively low.…”