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However, the current research is not strong enough to further clarify the functions of piRNA in cancer and its underlying mechanism. Therefore, how to provide large-scale and serious piRNA candidates for biological research has grown up to be a pressing issue. In this study, a novel computational model based on the structural perturbation method is proposed to predict potential disease-associated piRNAs, called SPRDA. Notably, SPRDA belongs to positive-unlabeled learning, which is unaffected by negative examples in contrast to previous approaches. In the 5-fold cross-validation, SPRDA shows high performance on the benchmark dataset piRDisease, with an AUC of 0.9529. Furthermore, the predictive performance of SPRDA for 10 diseases shows the robustness of the proposed method. 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