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ArticleBMC bioinformatics2023

HMCDA: a novel method based on the heterogeneous graph neural network and metapath for circRNA-disease associations prediction.

Shiyang Liang, Siwei Liu, Junliang Song, Qiang Lin, Shihong Zhao, Shuaixin Li, Jiahui Li, Shangsong Liang, Jingjie Wang

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Article in BMC bioinformatics, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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Shiyang Liang *Department of Gastroenterology, Tangdu Hospital, Air Force Medical University, Xinsi Road, Xi'an, China.
Siwei Liu *Department of Machine Learning, Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
Junliang Song *Department of Gastroenterology, Tangdu Hospital, Air Force Medical University, Xinsi Road, Xi'an, China.
Qiang LinDepartment of Gastroenterology, Tangdu Hospital, Air Force Medical University, Xinsi Road, Xi'an, China.
Shihong ZhaoDepartment of Respiratory Medicine, Tangdu Hospital, Air Force Medical University, Xinsi Road, Xi'an, China.
Shuaixin LiDepartment of Gastroenterology, Tangdu Hospital, Air Force Medical University, Xinsi Road, Xi'an, China.
Jiahui LiDepartment of Gastroenterology, Tangdu Hospital, Air Force Medical University, Xinsi Road, Xi'an, China.
Shangsong LiangDepartment of Machine Learning, Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
Jingjie WangDepartment of Gastroenterology, Tangdu Hospital, Air Force Medical University, Xinsi Road, Xi'an, China. Jingjie@fmmu.edu.cn.

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Abstract

Circular RNA (CircRNA) is a type of non-coding RNAs in which both ends are covalently linked. Researchers have demonstrated that many circRNAs can act as biomarkers of diseases. However, traditional experimental methods for circRNA-disease associations identification are labor-intensive. In this work, we propose a novel method based on the heterogeneous graph neural network and metapaths for circRNA-disease associations prediction termed as HMCDA. First, a heterogeneous graph consisting of circRNA-disease associations, circRNA-miRNA associations, miRNA-disease associations and disease-disease associations are constructed. Then, six metapaths are defined and generated according to the biomedical pathways. Afterwards, the entity content transformation, intra-metapath and inter-metapath aggregation are implemented to learn the embeddings of circRNA and disease entities. Finally, the learned embeddings are used to predict novel circRNA-disase associations. In particular, the result of extensive experiments demonstrates that HMCDA outperforms four state-of-the-art models in fivefold cross validation. In addition, our case study indicates that HMCDA has the ability to identify novel circRNA-disease associations.

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MicroRNAsRNA, CircularLearningNeural Networks, ComputerResearch DesignMicroRNAsRNA, CircularCircRNADiseaseHeterogeneous graph neural networkMetapath

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PMID37697297
PMCPMC10494331

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