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ArticleBMC genomics2018

InfAcrOnt: calculating cross-ontology term similarities using information flow by a random walk.

Liang Cheng, Yue Jiang, Hong Ju, Jie Sun, Jiajie Peng, Meng Zhou, Yang Hu

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Liang ChengCollege of Bioinformatics Science and Technology, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, 150081, People's Republic of China.
Yue JiangHospital for Sick Children, Toronto, M5G 1X8, Canada.
Hong JuDepartment of Information Engineering, Heilongjiang Biological Science and Technology Career Academy, Harbin, 150081, People's Republic of China.
Jie SunCollege of Bioinformatics Science and Technology, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, 150081, People's Republic of China.
Jiajie PengSchool of Computer Science, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xian, 710072, People's Republic of China.
Meng ZhouCollege of Bioinformatics Science and Technology, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, 150081, People's Republic of China. biofomeng@hotmail.com.
Yang HuSchool of Life Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, 150088, People's Republic of China. huyang@hit.edu.cn.

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backgroundSince the establishment of the first biomedical ontology Gene Ontology (GO), the number of biomedical ontology has increased dramatically. Nowadays over 300 ontologies have been built including extensively used Disease Ontology (DO) and Human Phenotype Ontology (HPO). Because of the advantage of identifying novel relationships between terms, calculating similarity between ontology terms is one of the major tasks in this research area. Though similarities between terms within each ontology have been studied with in silico methods, term similarities across different ontologies were not investigated as deeply. The latest method took advantage of gene functional interaction network (GFIN) to explore such inter-ontology similarities of terms. However, it only used gene interactions and failed to make full use of the connectivity among gene nodes of the network. In addition, all existent methods are particularly designed for GO and their performances on the extended ontology community remain unknown.

resultsWe proposed a method InfAcrOnt to infer similarities between terms across ontologies utilizing the entire GFIN. InfAcrOnt builds a term-gene-gene network which comprised ontology annotations and GFIN, and acquires similarities between terms across ontologies through modeling the information flow within the network by random walk. In our benchmark experiments on sub-ontologies of GO, InfAcrOnt achieves a high average area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC) (0.9322 and 0.9309) and low standard deviations (1.8746e-6 and 3.0977e-6) in both human and yeast benchmark datasets exhibiting superior performance. Meanwhile, comparisons of InfAcrOnt results and prior knowledge on pair-wise DO-HPO terms and pair-wise DO-GO terms show high correlations.

conclusionsThe experiment results show that InfAcrOnt significantly improves the performance of inferring similarities between terms across ontologies in benchmark set.

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Gene OntologyGene Regulatory NetworksModels, BiologicalSoftwareComputational BiologyGene Expression ProfilingGenomicsHumansProtein Interaction Domains and MotifsYeastsBiomedical ontologyInformation flowRandom walkTerm similarities

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