An efficient approach based on multi-sources information to predict circRNA-disease associations using deep convolutional neural network.

Journal: Bioinformatics (Oxford, England)
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Abstract

MOTIVATION: Emerging evidence indicates that circular RNA (circRNA) plays a crucial role in human disease. Using circRNA as biomarker gives rise to a new perspective regarding our diagnosing of diseases and understanding of disease pathogenesis. However, detection of circRNA-disease associations by biological experiments alone is often blind, limited to small scale, high cost and time consuming. Therefore, there is an urgent need for reliable computational methods to rapidly infer the potential circRNA-disease associations on a large scale and to provide the most promising candidates for biological experiments.

Authors

  • Lei Wang
    Department of Nursing, Beijing Hospital, National Center of Gerontology, Institute of Geriatric Medicine, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China.
  • Zhu-Hong You
    Xinjiang Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Urumqi, 830011, China. zhuhongyou@ms.xjb.ac.cn.
  • Yu-An Huang
    Department of Computing, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Hong Kong, China.
  • De-Shuang Huang
  • Keith C C Chan
    Department of Computing, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong.