IPCARF: improving lncRNA-disease association prediction using incremental principal component analysis feature selection and a random forest classifier.

Journal: BMC bioinformatics
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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Identifying lncRNA-disease associations not only helps to better comprehend the underlying mechanisms of various human diseases at the lncRNA level but also speeds up the identification of potential biomarkers for disease diagnoses, treatments, prognoses, and drug response predictions. However, as the amount of archived biological data continues to grow, it has become increasingly difficult to detect potential human lncRNA-disease associations from these enormous biological datasets using traditional biological experimental methods. Consequently, developing new and effective computational methods to predict potential human lncRNA diseases is essential.

Authors

  • Rong Zhu
  • Yong Wang
    State Key Laboratory of Chemical Biology and Drug Discovery, Department of Applied Biology and Chemical Technology, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Hunghom Kowloon Hong Kong P. R. China kwok-yin.wong@polyu.edu.hk.
  • Jin-Xing Liu
    School of Information Science and Engineering, Qufu Normal University, Rizhao, China; Co-Innovation Center for Information Supply & Assurance Technology, Anhui University, Hefei, China. Electronic address: sdcavell@126.com.
  • Ling-Yun Dai
    School of Information Science and Engineering, Qufu Normal University, Rizhao, China.