Research Article

A Novel Approach for Predicting Disease-lncRNA Associations Based on the Distance Correlation Set and Information of the miRNAs

Figure 1

The flowchart of functional similarity calculation based on information of miRNA includes three steps: (1) constructing known disease-miRNA association and miRNA-lncRNA association network respectively; (2) obtaining contribution of each miRNA; (3) calculating functional similarity for diseases and lncRNAs, respectively.