An ensemble learning framework for potential miRNA-disease association prediction with positive-unlabeled data

To explore the pathogenic mechanisms of MicroRNA (miRNA) on diverse diseases, many researchers have concentrated on discovering the potential associations between miRNA and disease using machine learning methods. However, the prediction accuracy of supervised machine learning methods is limited by lacking of experimentally-validated uncorrelated miRNA-disease pairs. Without these negative samples, training a highly accurate model is much more difficult. Different from traditional miRNA-disease prediction models using randomly selected unknown samples as negative training samples, we propose an ensemble learning framework to solve this positive-unlabeled (PU) learning problem. The framework incorporates two steps, i.e., a novel semi-supervised Kmeans (SS-Kmeans) to extract reliable negative samples from unknown miRNA-disease pairs and subagging method to generate diverse training sample sets to make full use of those reliable negative samples for ensemble learning. Combined with effective random vector functional link (RVFL) network as prediction model, the proposed framework showed superior prediction accuracy comparing with other popular approaches. A case study on lung and gastric neoplasms further confirms the framework’s efficacy at identifying miRNA disease associations.     

多环芳香硫化合物的定量结构-气相色谱保留指数关系

应用分子电性距离矢量(MEDV)对114个多环芳香硫化合物(PASHs)进行结构表征,通过多元线性回归建立了PASHs的气相色谱保留指数与MEDV参数之间的定量结构-保留值关系模型;同时采用逐步回归分析进行变量筛选,继而以留一法交互检验对所得优化模型进行预测能力评价,所建立的模型的相关系数为0.9947,交互检验相关系数为0.9940,表明该优化模型具有良好的稳定性和预测能力。此外,通过将样本集按2:1分成校准集和测试集预测,统计分析结果显示所建的模型具有良好的相关性和稳定性。本文所建的定量结构-保留值关系(QSRR)模型为预测PASHs的气相色谱保留指数提供了一个便捷有效的新方法。     

QSAR Studies on the COX-2 Inhibition by 3,4-Diarylcycloxazolones Based on MEDV Descriptor

Selective inhibition of cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) might avoid the side effects of current available nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs while retaining their therapeutic efficacy. A novel variable selection and modeling method based on prediction is developed to construct the quantitative structure-activity relationships (QSAR) between the molecular electronegativity distance vector (MEDV) based on 13 atomic types and the biological activities of a set of selective cyclooxygenase-2 inhibitory molecules, 3,4-diarylcycloxazolones (DAA) plus indomethacin,naproxen, and celecoxib. Using multiple linear regression, a 5-variable linear model is developed with the calibrated correlation coefficient of 0.9271 and root mean square error of 0.17 in modeling stage and the validated correlation coefficient of 0.9030 and root mean square error of 0.20 in leave-one-out validation step, respectively. To further test the predictive ability of the model, 20 DAA compounds are picked up to construct a training set which is used to build a QSAR model and then the model is employed to predict the biological activities of the balance compounds. The predicted correlation coefficient and root mean square error are 0.9332 and 0.19, respectively.     

A sequence-based computational model for the prediction of the solvent accessible surface area for α-helix and β-barrel transmembrane residues

Predicting the solvent accessible surface area (ASA) of transmembrane (TM) residues is of great importance for experimental researchers to elucidate diverse physiological processes. TM residues fall into two major structural classes (α-helix membrane protein and β-barrel membrane protein). The reported solvent ASA prediction models were developed for these two types of TM residues respectively. However, this prevents the general use of these methods because one cannot determine which model is suitable for a given TM residue without information of its type. To conquer this limitation, we developed a new computational model that can be used for predicting the ASA of both TM α-helix and β-barrel residues. The model was developed from 78 α-helix membrane protein chains and 24 β-barrel membrane protein. Its prediction ability was evaluated by cross validation method and its prediction result on an independent test set of 20 membrane protein chains. The results show that our model performs well for both types of TM residues and outperforms other prediction model which was developed for the specific type of TM residues. The prediction results also proved that the random forest model incorporating conservation score is an effective sequence-based computational approach for predicting the solvent ASA of TM residues.     

In silico prediction and screening of γ‐secretase inhibitors by molecular descriptors and machine learning methods

γ‐Secretase inhibitors have been explored for the prevention and treatment of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Methods for prediction and screening of γ‐secretase inhibitors are highly desired for facilitating the design of novel therapeutic agents against AD, especially when incomplete knowledge about the mechanism and three‐dimensional structure of γ‐secretase. We explored two machine learning methods, support vector machine (SVM) and random forest (RF), to develop models for predicting γ‐secretase inhibitors of diverse structures. Quantitative analysis of the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve was performed to further examine and optimize the models. Especially, the Youden index (YI) was initially introduced into the ROC curve of RF so as to obtain an optimal threshold of probability for prediction. The developed models were validated by an external testing set with the prediction accuracies of SVM and RF 96.48 and 98.83% for γ‐secretase inhibitors and 98.18 and 99.27% for noninhibitors, respectively. The different feature selection methods were used to extract the physicochemical features most relevant to γ‐secretase inhibition. To the best of our knowledge, the RF model developed in this work is the first model with a broad applicability domain, based on which the virtual screening of γ‐secretase inhibitors against the ZINC database was performed, resulting in 368 potential hit candidates. © 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Comput Chem, 2010     

斜投影-子空间夹角算法快速分析农药中阿维菌素

采用斜投影-子空间夹角算法快速分析农药中阿维菌素的含量。用斜投影算法从阿维菌素对照品中提取阿维菌素B_(1a)纯光谱数据,用子空间夹角判据计算农药中阿维菌素的含量。阿维菌素的质量浓度在4~14μg/mL范围内与用斜投影法提取的阿维菌素B_(1a)纯光谱吸光度呈良好的线性关系,相关系数r=0.9994。斜投影-子空间夹角算法加标回收率在98.80%~101.67%之间,测定结果的相对标准偏差小于2%(n=6)。用该方法与高效液相色谱法对同一样品进行测定,两种方法测定结果相接近,相对误差小于2.20%。该方法满足快速检测农药中阿维菌素含量的分析要求。     

三维全息原子场作用矢量用于吡咯类抗艾滋病药物QSAR研究

采用三维全息原子场作用矢量(3D-HoVAIF)对32个吡咯类抗艾滋病药物进行结构参数化表征,并与其活性建立定量构效关系。分别采用多元线性回归(MLR)和偏最小二乘(PLS)进行建模,建模的复相关系数(R2cum)、交互校验复相关系数(Q2cum)和模型的标准偏差(SD)分别为R2cum=0.914、Q2cum=0.812、SD=0.236(MLR);R2cum=0.836、Q2cum=0.719、SD=0.314(PLS),结果均优于文献值(R2cum=0.667,Q2cum=0.581,SD=0.420)。所建模型具有良好的稳定性和预测能力,表明3D-HoVAIF能够较好地表征该类分子的结构,值得进一步推广应用。     

Impulsive generalized function synchronization of complex dynamical networks

This Letter investigates generalized function synchronization of continuous and discrete complex networks by impulsive control. By constructing the reasonable corresponding impulsively controlled response networks, some criteria and corollaries are derived for the generalized function synchronization between the impulsively controlled complex networks, continuous and discrete networks are both included. Furthermore, the generalized linear synchronization and nonlinear synchronization are respectively illustrated by several examples. All the numerical simulations demonstrate the correctness of the theoretical results.     

Semi-concurrent vector fields in Finsler geometry

In the present paper, we give an answer to a question which is closely related to doubly warped product of Finsler metrics: ‘‘For each n, is there an n-dimensional Finsler manifold $(M,F)$, admitting a non-constant smooth function f on M such that $\frac{\partial f}{\partial x^i}\frac{\partial g^{ij}}{\partial y^k}=0$?”. We relate the preceding mentioned condition to different concepts appeared and studied in Finsler geometry. We introduce and investigate the notion of a semi concurrent vector field on a Finsler manifold. We show that some special Finsler manifolds admitting such vector fields turn out to be Riemannian. We prove that Tachibana's characterization of Finsler manifolds admitting a concurrent vector field leads to Riemannian metrics. Various examples for conic Finsler spaces that admit semi-concurrent vector field are presented.     

Krull property of generalized power series rings

Let D be an integral domain and let $(S,\le )$ be a torsion-free, ≤-cancellative, subtotally ordered monoid. We show that the generalized power series ring $?D^{S,\le }?$ is a Krull domain if and only if D is a Krull domain and S is a Krull monoid.