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However, the previous methods do not fully represent the critical neighborhood relationship between genes during the feature learning process. Furthermore, it is difficult to accurately estimate the contributions of different views for multi-view integration. In this paper, we propose MGEGFP, a multi-view graph embedding method based on adaptive estimation with Graph Convolutional Network (GCN), to learn high-quality gene representations among multiple interaction networks for function prediction. First, we design a dual-channel GCN encoder to disentangle the view-specific information and the consensus pattern across diverse networks. By the aid of disentangled representations, we develop a multi-gate module to adaptively estimate the contributions of different views during each reconstruction process and make full use of the multiplexity advantages, where a diversity preservation constraint is designed to prevent the over-fitting problem. To validate the effectiveness of our model, we conduct experiments on networks from the STRING database for both yeast and human datasets, and compare the performance with seven state-of-the-art methods in five evaluation metrics. Moreover, the ablation study manifests the important contribution of the designed dual-channel encoder, multi-gate module and the diversity preservation constraint in MGEGFP. 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