BMC Biology,
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
23(1)
Published: April 23, 2025
Abstract
Background
Numerous
studies
have
shown
that
circRNA
can
act
as
a
miRNA
sponge,
competitively
binding
to
miRNAs,
thereby
regulating
gene
expression
and
disease
progression.
Due
the
high
cost
time-consuming
nature
of
traditional
wet
lab
experiments,
analyzing
circRNA-miRNA
associations
is
often
inefficient
labor-intensive.
Although
some
computational
models
been
developed
identify
these
associations,
they
fail
capture
deep
collaborative
features
between
interactions
do
not
guide
training
feature
extraction
networks
based
on
high-order
relationships,
leading
poor
prediction
performance.
Results
To
address
issues,
we
innovatively
propose
novel
graph
collaboration
learning
method
for
interaction,
called
DGCLCMI.
First,
it
uses
word2vec
encode
sequences
into
word
embeddings.
Next,
present
joint
model
combines
an
improved
neural
filtering
with
network
optimization.
Deep
interaction
information
embedded
informative
within
sequence
representations
prediction.
Comprehensive
experiments
three
well-established
datasets
across
seven
metrics
demonstrate
our
algorithm
significantly
outperforms
previous
models,
achieving
average
AUC
0.960.
In
addition,
case
study
reveals
18
out
20
predicted
unknown
CMI
data
points
are
accurate.
Conclusions
The
DGCLCMI
improves
representation
by
capturing
information,
superior
performance
compared
prior
methods.
It
facilitates
discovery
sheds
light
their
roles
in
physiological
processes.
BMC Biology,
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
23(1)
Published: April 16, 2025
Drug-disease
association
(DDA)
prediction
aims
to
identify
potential
links
between
drugs
and
diseases,
facilitating
the
discovery
of
new
therapeutic
potentials
reducing
cost
time
associated
with
traditional
drug
development.
However,
existing
DDA
methods
often
overlook
global
relational
information
provided
by
other
biological
entities,
complex
structure
limiting
correlations
disease
embeddings.
In
this
study,
we
propose
HNF-DDA,
a
subgraph
contrastive-driven
transformer-style
heterogeneous
network
embedding
model
for
prediction.
Specifically,
HNF-DDA
adopts
all-pairs
message
passing
strategy
capture
network,
fully
integrating
multi-omics
information.
also
proposes
concept
contrastive
learning
local
drug-disease
subgraphs,
high-order
semantic
nodes.
Experimental
results
on
two
benchmark
datasets
demonstrate
that
outperforms
several
state-of-the-art
methods.
Additionally,
it
shows
superior
performance
across
different
dataset
splitting
schemes,
indicating
HNF-DDA's
capability
generalize
novel
categories.
Case
studies
breast
cancer
prostate
reveal
9
out
top
10
predicted
candidate
8
have
documented
effects.
incorporates
strategies
into
embedding,
enabling
effective
representations
enriched
information,
while
demonstrating
significant
applications
in
repositioning.
Science Advances,
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
11(16)
Published: April 16, 2025
Three-dimensional
molecular
generation
is
critical
in
drug
design.
However,
current
methods
often
rely
on
point
clouds
or
oversimplified
interaction
models,
limiting
their
ability
to
accurately
represent
structures.
To
address
these
challenges,
this
paper
proposes
the
multiscale
graph
equivariant
diffusion
model
for
3D
molecule
design
(MD3MD).
MD3MD
partitions
conformations
into
graphs,
assigning
different
weights
capture
atomic
interactions
across
scales.
This
framework
guides
process,
enabling
high-quality
generation.
Experimental
results
demonstrate
that
excels
both
unconditional
and
conditional
tasks,
producing
diverse,
stable,
innovative
molecules
meet
specified
conditions.
Visualization
highlights
MD3MD’s
learn
domain-specific
patterns
generate
distinct
from
existing
datasets
while
maintaining
distributional
consistency.
By
effectively
exploring
chemical
space,
surpasses
previous
generating
chemically
diverse
molecules,
offering
a
notable
advancement
field
of
Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling,
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
unknown
Published: April 21, 2025
Neuropeptides
are
key
signaling
molecules
that
regulate
fundamental
physiological
processes
ranging
from
metabolism
to
cognitive
function.
However,
accurate
identification
is
a
huge
challenge
due
sequence
heterogeneity,
obscured
functional
motifs
and
limited
experimentally
validated
data.
Accurate
of
neuropeptides
critical
for
advancing
neurological
disease
therapeutics
peptide-based
drug
design.
Existing
neuropeptide
methods
rely
on
manual
features
combined
with
traditional
machine
learning
methods,
which
difficult
capture
the
deep
patterns
sequences.
To
address
these
limitations,
we
propose
NeuroPred-AIMP
(adaptive
integrated
multimodal
predictor),
an
interpretable
model
synergizes
global
semantic
representation
protein
language
(ESM)
multiscale
structural
temporal
convolutional
network
(TCN).
The
introduced
adaptive
fusion
mechanism
residual
enhancement
dynamically
recalibrate
feature
contributions,
achieve
robust
integration
evolutionary
local
information.
experimental
results
demonstrated
proposed
showed
excellent
comprehensive
performance
independence
test
set,
accuracy
92.3%
AUROC
0.974.
Simultaneously,
good
balance
in
ability
identify
positive
negative
samples,
sensitivity
92.6%
specificity
92.1%,
difference
less
than
0.5%.
result
fully
confirms
effectiveness
strategy
task
recognition.
BMC Biology,
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
23(1)
Published: April 23, 2025
Abstract
Background
Numerous
studies
have
shown
that
circRNA
can
act
as
a
miRNA
sponge,
competitively
binding
to
miRNAs,
thereby
regulating
gene
expression
and
disease
progression.
Due
the
high
cost
time-consuming
nature
of
traditional
wet
lab
experiments,
analyzing
circRNA-miRNA
associations
is
often
inefficient
labor-intensive.
Although
some
computational
models
been
developed
identify
these
associations,
they
fail
capture
deep
collaborative
features
between
interactions
do
not
guide
training
feature
extraction
networks
based
on
high-order
relationships,
leading
poor
prediction
performance.
Results
To
address
issues,
we
innovatively
propose
novel
graph
collaboration
learning
method
for
interaction,
called
DGCLCMI.
First,
it
uses
word2vec
encode
sequences
into
word
embeddings.
Next,
present
joint
model
combines
an
improved
neural
filtering
with
network
optimization.
Deep
interaction
information
embedded
informative
within
sequence
representations
prediction.
Comprehensive
experiments
three
well-established
datasets
across
seven
metrics
demonstrate
our
algorithm
significantly
outperforms
previous
models,
achieving
average
AUC
0.960.
In
addition,
case
study
reveals
18
out
20
predicted
unknown
CMI
data
points
are
accurate.
Conclusions
The
DGCLCMI
improves
representation
by
capturing
information,
superior
performance
compared
prior
methods.
It
facilitates
discovery
sheds
light
their
roles
in
physiological
processes.