RCMF: a robust collaborative matrix factorization method to predict miRNA-disease associations

Abstract Background Predicting miRNA-disease associations (MDAs) is time-consuming and expensive. It is imminent to improve the accuracy of prediction results. So it is crucial to develop a novel computing technology to predict new MDAs. Although some existing methods can effectively predict novel M...

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Main Authors: Zhen Cui, Jin-Xing Liu, Ying-Lian Gao, Chun-Hou Zheng, Juan Wang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2019-12-01
Series:BMC Bioinformatics
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12859-019-3260-0
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Summary:Abstract Background Predicting miRNA-disease associations (MDAs) is time-consuming and expensive. It is imminent to improve the accuracy of prediction results. So it is crucial to develop a novel computing technology to predict new MDAs. Although some existing methods can effectively predict novel MDAs, there are still some shortcomings. Especially when the disease matrix is processed, its sparsity is an important factor affecting the final results. Results A robust collaborative matrix factorization (RCMF) is proposed to predict novel MDAs. The L2,1-norm are introduced to our method to achieve the highest AUC value than other advanced methods. Conclusions 5-fold cross validation is used to evaluate our method, and simulation experiments are used to predict novel associations on Gold Standard Dataset. Finally, our prediction accuracy is better than other existing advanced methods. Therefore, our approach is effective and feasible in predicting novel MDAs.
ISSN:1471-2105