Research Article

A Meta-Path-Based Prediction Method for Human miRNA-Target Association

Table 1

The number of links predicted by our methods based on different thresholds.

Database Methods Validated Th ≥ 0.9 Th ≥ 0.8 Th ≥ 0.7 Th ≥ 0.6 Th ≥ 0.5

Global RMLM 11,1770 17,2912 20,4894 23,4327 26,5883 79,8049
RMLMSe 11,1770 17,6625 21,0909 24,2946 28,1782 80,7688

OV RMLM 4,2730 5,3683 5,9580 6,4676 6,9759 23,3784
RMLMSe 4,2730 5,3891 5,9954 6,5526 7,1565 23,4562

Lung RMLM 4,7764 5,8511 6,4339 6,9397 7,4816 24,5323
RMLMSe 4,7764 5,8870 6,4881 7,0437 7,9293 24,6261

Breast RMLM 6,4403 8,6555 9,8883 10,9659 12,0730 36,4375
RMLMSe 6,4403 8,6690 9,9540 11,1719 12,6556 36,6573

The “validated” column is the number of links validated in database miRTarbase v6.1 and “Th” represents the threshold.