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BRWLDA: bi-random walks for predicting lncRNA-disease associations

Guoxian Yu _, Guangyuan Fu, Chang Lu, Yazhou Ren and Jun Wang

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Oncotarget. 2017; 8:60429-60446. https://doi.org/10.18632/oncotarget.19588

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Abstract

Guoxian Yu1, Guangyuan Fu1, Chang Lu1, Yazhou Ren2 and Jun Wang1

1College of Computer and Information Sciences, Southwest University, Chongqing, China

2Big Data Research Center, School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China

Correspondence to:

Guoxian Yu, email: [email protected]

Jun Wang, email: [email protected]

Keywords: lncRNAs, diseases, lncRNA-disease associations, bi-relational network, bi-random walk

Received: May 25, 2017    Accepted: June 19, 2017    Published: July 26, 2017

ABSTRACT

Increasing efforts have been done to figure out the association between lncRNAs and complex diseases. Many computational models construct various lncRNA similarity networks, disease similarity networks, along with known lncRNA-disease associations to infer novel associations. However, most of them neglect the structural difference between lncRNAs network and diseases network, hierarchical relationships between diseases and pattern of newly discovered associations. In this study, we developed a model that performs Bi-Random Walks to predict novel LncRNA-Disease Associations (BRWLDA in short). This model utilizes multiple heterogeneous data to construct the lncRNA functional similarity network, and Disease Ontology to construct a disease network. It then constructs a directed bi-relational network based on these two networks and available lncRNAs-disease associations. Next, it applies bi-random walks on the network to predict potential associations. BRWLDA achieves reliable and better performance than other comparing methods not only on experiment verified associations, but also on the simulated experiments with masked associations. Case studies further demonstrate the feasibility of BRWLDA in identifying new lncRNA-disease associations.


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