A Graph Convolutional Matrix Completion Method for miRNA-Disease Association Prediction

Autor: Wei Wang, Cong Shen, Jiawei Luo, Nguyen Hoang Tu
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Intelligent Computing Theories and Application ISBN: 9783030608019
ICIC (2)
Popis: MicroRNAs (miRNAs) play a key role in various biological processes associated with human diseases. Identification of miRNA-disease relationships can help to understand disease pathogenesis. Experimentally verifying substantial associations between miRNAs and diseases is the most convincing but time-consuming, while in silico methods can provide efficient alternatives. However, existing computational methods still have room for improvement in considering topology and prior information of network nodes. In this paper, we presented a novel model called GCMCAP, in which we referred to the prediction of potential miRNA-disease associations as a recommendation problem. In our framework, we integrated graph convolution networks as feature extractors into a matrix completion to predict diseases related miRNAs. We tested GCMCAP and other three methods on the same dataset. The results indicate that GCMCAP outperforms other methods with respect to average AUC value. In addition, case studies show that GCMCAP has a great capability to discover novel miRNA-disease associations.
Databáze: OpenAIRE