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ArticleInterdisciplinary sciences, computational life sciences2025

NPI-HGNN: A Heterogeneous Graph Neural Network-Based Approach for Predicting ncRNA-Protein Interactions.

Xin Zhang, Haofeng Ma, Sizhe Wang, Hao Wu, Yu Jiang, Quanzhong Liu

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Xin ZhangCollege of Information Engineering, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, 712100, China.
Haofeng MaCollege of Information Engineering, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, 712100, China.
Sizhe WangCollege of Information Engineering, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, 712100, China.
Hao WuSchool of Software, Shandong University, Jinan, 250100, China.
Yu JiangKey Laboratory of Animal Genetics, Breeding and Reproduction of Shaanxi Province, College of Animal Science and Technology, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, 712100, China. yu.jiang@nwafu.edu.cn.
Quanzhong LiuCollege of Information Engineering, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, 712100, China. liuqzhong@nwafu.edu.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6217-6285

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National Key R&D Program of China 2022YFF1000100National Key R&D Program of China 2023YFD1300400National Natural Science Foundation of China 61972322Shaanxi Livestock and Poultry Breeding Double-chain Fusion Key Project 2022GD-TSLD-46-0401
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Accurate identification of ncRNA-protein interactions (NPIs) is critical for understanding various cellular activities and biological functions of ncRNAs and proteins. Many sequence- and/or structure- and graph-based computational approaches have been developed to identify NPIs from large-scale ncRNA and protein data in a high-throughput manner. However, many sequence- and/or structure- and graph-based computational approaches often ignore either the topological information in NPIs or the influence of other molecule networks on NPI prediction. In this work, we propose NPI-HGNN, an end-to-end graph neural network (GNN)-based approach for the identification of NPIs from a large heterogeneous network, consisting of the ncRNA-protein interaction network, the ncRNA-ncRNA similarity network, and the protein-protein interaction network. To our knowledge, NPI-HGNN is the first GNN-based predictor that integrates related heterogeneous networks for NPI prediction. Experiments on five benchmarking datasets demonstrate that NPI-HGNN outperformed several state-of-the-art sequence- and/or structure- and graph-based predictors. In addition, we showcased the prediction power of NPI-HGNN by identifying 12 interacting ncRNAs of the pre-mRNA 3' end processing protein, which indicates the effectiveness of the proposed model. The source code of NPI-HGNN is freely available for academic purposes at https://github.com/zhangxin11111/NPI-HGNN .

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Computational BiologyNeural Networks, ComputerProteinsRNA, UntranslatedAlgorithmsGraph Neural NetworksHumansProtein Interaction MapsProteinsRNA, UntranslatedHeterogeneous graph neural networkLarge heterogeneous networkncRNA-protein interaction

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