Frontiers in Genetics (Feb 2023)

LPIH2V: LncRNA-protein interactions prediction using HIN2Vec based on heterogeneous networks model

  • Meng-Meng Wei,
  • Chang-Qing Yu,
  • Li-Ping Li,
  • Li-Ping Li,
  • Zhu-Hong You,
  • Zhong-Hao Ren,
  • Yong-Jian Guan,
  • Xin-Fei Wang,
  • Yue-Chao Li

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3389/fgene.2023.1122909
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 14

Abstract

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LncRNA-protein interaction plays an important role in the development and treatment of many human diseases. As the experimental approaches to determine lncRNA–protein interactions are expensive and time-consuming, considering that there are few calculation methods, therefore, it is urgent to develop efficient and accurate methods to predict lncRNA-protein interactions. In this work, a model for heterogeneous network embedding based on meta-path, namely LPIH2V, is proposed. The heterogeneous network is composed of lncRNA similarity networks, protein similarity networks, and known lncRNA-protein interaction networks. The behavioral features are extracted in a heterogeneous network using the HIN2Vec method of network embedding. The results showed that LPIH2V obtains an AUC of 0.97 and ACC of 0.95 in the 5-fold cross-validation test. The model successfully showed superiority and good generalization ability. Compared to other models, LPIH2V not only extracts attribute characteristics by similarity, but also acquires behavior properties by meta-path wandering in heterogeneous networks. LPIH2V would be beneficial in forecasting interactions between lncRNA and protein.

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