Journal
MOLECULES
Volume 27, Issue 14, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/molecules27144371
Keywords
miRNA-disease; three-layer heterogeneous; drug heuristic information; network path
Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [61972226, 61902216, 61902430, 61702299, 61872220]
- Project of Shandong Province Higher Educational Science and Technology Program [J18KA373]
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A novel method named TLNPMD was developed to predict miRNA-disease associations by introducing drug heuristic information and a bipartite network reconstruction strategy. Comparative experiments and case studies showed that TLNPMD may serve as a promising alternative for predicting miRNA-disease associations.
Many microRNAs (miRNAs) have been confirmed to be associated with the generation of human diseases. Capturing miRNA-disease associations (M-DAs) provides an effective way to understand the etiology of diseases. Many models for predicting M-DAs have been constructed; nevertheless, there are still several limitations, such as generally considering direct information between miRNAs and diseases, usually ignoring potential knowledge hidden in isolated miRNAs or diseases. To overcome these limitations, in this study a novel method for predicting M-DAs was developed named TLNPMD, highlights of which are the introduction of drug heuristic information and a bipartite network reconstruction strategy. Specifically, three bipartite networks, including drug-miRNA, drug-disease, and miRNA-disease, were reconstructed as weighted ones using such reconstruction strategy. Based on these weighted bipartite networks, as well as three corresponding similarity networks of drugs, miRNAs and diseases, the miRNA-drug-disease three-layer heterogeneous network was constructed. Then, this heterogeneous network was converted into three two-layer heterogeneous networks, for each of which the network path computational model was employed to predict association scores. Finally, both direct and indirect miRNA-disease paths were used to predict M-DAs. Comparative experiments of TLNPMD and other four models were performed and evaluated by five-fold and global leave-one-out cross validations, results of which show that TLNPMD has the highest AUC values among those of compared methods. In addition, case studies of two common diseases were carried out to validate the effectiveness of the TLNPMD. These experiments demonstrate that the TLNPMD may serve as a promising alternative to existing methods for predicting M-DAs.
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