摘要
Circular RNAs(circRNAs)are RNAs with a special closed loop structure,which play important roles in tumors and other diseases.Due to the time consumption of biological experiments,computational methods for predicting associations between circRNAs and diseases become a better choice.Taking the limited number of verified circRNA-disease associations into account,we propose a method named CDWBMS,which integrates a small number of verified circRNA-disease associations with a plenty of circRNA information to discover the novel circRNA-disease associations.CDWBMS adopts an improved weighted biased meta-structure search algorithm on a heterogeneous network to predict associations between circRNAs and diseases.In terms of leave-one-out-cross-validation(LOOCV),10-fold cross-validation and 5-fold cross-validation,CDWBMS yields the area under the receiver operating characteristic curve(AUC)values of 0.9216,0.9172 and 0.9005,respectively.Furthermore,case studies show that CDWBMS can predict unknow circRNA-disease associations.In conclusion,CDWBMS is an effective method for exploring disease-related circRNAs.
基金
The work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos.61972451,61672334 and 61902230
the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities of China under Grant No.GK201901010.
