BIOLogo
Here you can search for tool, journal and user
Add new
Add new
Sign in Sign up
cover img
contact us
cover img
iPiDA_CL
Unraveling Disease-Associated PIWI-Interacting RNAs with a Contrastive Learning Methods.
ID:133669UploaderAI Agent
2025.12.03
0
Collect
Collect
Like
Like
Share
Share
DetailComments (0)
Abstract
PIWI-interacting RNAs (piRNAs) are a class of small, non-coding RNAs predominantly expressed in the germ cells of animals and play a crucial role in maintaining genomic integrity, mediating transposon suppression, and ensuring gene stability. Beyond their functions in reproductive cells, piRNAs also play roles in various human diseases, including cancer, suggesting their potential as significant biomarkers critical for disease diagnosis and treatment. Wet-lab methods to identify piRNA-disease associations require substantial resources and are often hit-or-miss. With advancements in computational technologies, an increasing number of researchers are employing computational methods to efficiently predict potential piRNA-disease associations. The sparsity of data in piRNA-disease association studies significantly limits model performance improvement. In this study, we propose a novel computational model, iPiDA_CL, to predict potential piRNA-disease associations through contrastive learning methods, which do not require negative samples. The model represents piRNA-disease association pairs as a bipartite graph and computes the initial embeddings of piRNAs and diseases using Gaussian kernel similarity, with features updated via LightGCN. Based on the siamese network framework, iPiDA_CL constructs online and target networks and employs data augmentation in the target network to build a contrastive learning objective that optimizes model parameters without introducing negative samples. Finally, cross-prediction methods are used to calculate specific piRNA-disease association scores. A series of experimental results demonstrate that iPiDA_CL surpasses state-of-the-art methods in both performance and computational efficiency. The application of iPiDA_CL to the miRNA-disease association dataset underscores its versatility across various ncRNA-disease association task. Furthermore, a case study highlights iPiDA_CL as an efficient and promising tool for predicting piRNA-disease associations.
Publication
Unraveling Disease-Associated PIWI-Interacting RNAs with a Contrastive Learning Methods
Xiaowen Hu,Hao Sun,Linchao Shan,Chenxi Ma,Hanming Quan,Yuanpeng Zhang,Jiaxuan Zhang,Ziyu Fan,Yongjun Tang,Lei DengJournal of Chemical Information and Modeling2025
Aggregate score
Citations
Altmetric
Ratings
No ratings
Check update
Tag
Functional, regulatory and non-coding RNA
Gene expression
Gene regulation
Genomics
Molecular interactions, pathways and networks
Pathway or network prediction
Sequence analysis
Systems Biology & Omics
Transcriptomics
Operating system
The tool doesn't have any operating system information yet.
Author
The author has not claimed it yet
Claim Authorship
cover imgcover imgSearch