MRWMDA: A novel framework to infer miRNA-disease associations

MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are widely involved in a series of significant biological processes, which have been revealed and verified by accumulating experimental studies. The computational inference of the correlation between miRNAs and diseases is essential to facilitate the detection of disease biomarkers for disease diagnosis, prevention, treatment and prognosis. In this paper, a model with Multiple use of Random Walk with restart algorithm was introduced for the prediction of the MiRNA-Disease Association (MRWMDA). Based on diverse similarity measures, the model first implemented the random walk with restart (RWR) algorithm on the integrated similarity network to construct the topological similarity of miRNAs and diseases, which took full advantage of the network topology information. Then, the RWR algorithm was applied in the miRNA topological similarity network, and a steady probability of each miRNA-disease pair was obtained to prioritize miRNA candidates. In particular, the initial probability of the RWR algorithm was determined by utilizing the combination of the recommendation algorithm and the maximum similarity method. The proposed model achieved significant improvement in prediction compared with previous models, with an AUC of 0.9353 and an AUPR of 0.4809. In addition, case studies of breast neoplasms and lung neoplasms representing different disease types further demonstrated the excellent ability of MRWMDA in detecting potential disease-associated miRNAs. These performance analyses indicated that MRWMDA could be an effective and powerful biological computational tool in relevant biomedical studies.

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