Exploring associations of non-coding RNAs in human diseases via three-matrix factorization with hypergraph-regular terms on center kernel alignment.

Relationship of accurate associations between non-coding RNAs and diseases could be of great help in the treatment of human biomedical research. However, the traditional technology is only applied on one type of non-coding RNA or a specific disease, and the experimental method is time-consuming and expensive. More computational tools have been proposed to detect new associations based on known ncRNA and disease information. Due to the ncRNAs (circRNAs, miRNAs and lncRNAs) having a close relationship with the progression of various human diseases, it is critical for developing effective computational predictors for ncRNA-disease association prediction. In this paper, we propose a new computational method of three-matrix factorization with hypergraph regularization terms (HGRTMF) based on central kernel alignment (CKA), for identifying general ncRNA-disease associations. In the process of constructing the similarity matrix, various types of similarity matrices are applicable to circRNAs, miRNAs and lncRNAs. Our method achieves excellent performance on five datasets, involving three types of ncRNAs. In the test, we obtain best area under the curve scores of $0.9832$, $0.9775$, $0.9023$, $0.8809$ and $0.9185$ via 5-fold cross-validation and $0.9832$, $0.9836$, $0.9198$, $0.9459$ and $0.9275$ via leave-one-out cross-validation on five datasets. Furthermore, our novel method (CKA-HGRTMF) is also able to discover new associations between ncRNAs and diseases accurately. Availability: Codes and data are available: https://github.com/hzwh6910/ncRNA2Disease.git. Contact:  fguo@tju.edu.cn. © The authors 2021. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications. All rights reserved.