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Oxford University Press, Bioinformatics, 11(34), p. 1953-1956, 2018

DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/bty002

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DincRNA: a comprehensive web-based bioinformatics toolkit for exploring disease associations and ncRNA function

Journal article published in 2018 by Liang Cheng ORCID, Yang Hu ORCID, Jie Sun, Meng Zhou, Qinghua Jiang
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Abstract Summary DincRNA aims to provide a comprehensive web-based bioinformatics toolkit to elucidate the entangled relationships among diseases and non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs) from the perspective of disease similarity. The quantitative way to illustrate relationships of pair-wise diseases always depends on their molecular mechanisms, and structures of the directed acyclic graph of Disease Ontology (DO). Corresponding methods for calculating similarity of pair-wise diseases involve Resnik’s, Lin’s, Wang’s, PSB and SemFunSim methods. Recently, disease similarity was validated suitable for calculating functional similarities of ncRNAs and prioritizing ncRNA–disease pairs, and it has been widely applied for predicting the ncRNA function due to the limited biological knowledge from wet lab experiments of these RNAs. For this purpose, a large number of algorithms and priori knowledge need to be integrated. e.g. ‘pair-wise best, pairs-average’ (PBPA) and ‘pair-wise all, pairs-maximum’ (PAPM) methods for calculating functional similarities of ncRNAs, and random walk with restart (RWR) method for prioritizing ncRNA–disease pairs. To facilitate the exploration of disease associations and ncRNA function, DincRNA implemented all of the above eight algorithms based on DO and disease-related genes. Currently, it provides the function to query disease similarity scores, miRNA and lncRNA functional similarity scores, and the prioritization scores of lncRNA–disease and miRNA–disease pairs. Availability and implementation http://bio-annotation.cn:18080/DincRNAClient/ Supplementary information Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.