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Recent wet-lab experiments have shown that lncRNAs function by regulating the expression of protein-coding genes (PCGs), which could also be the mechanism responsible for causing diseases. Currently, lncRNA-related biological data are increasing rapidly. Whereas, no computational methods have been designed for predicting the novel target genes of lncRNA.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>In this study, we present a graph convolutional network (GCN) based method, named DeepLGP, for prioritizing target PCGs of lncRNA. First, gene and lncRNA features were selected, these included their location in the genome, expression in 13 tissues and miRNA-mediated lncRNA\u2013gene pairs. Next, GCN was applied to convolve a gene interaction network for encoding the features of genes and lncRNAs. Then, these features were used by the convolutional neural network for prioritizing target genes of lncRNAs. In 10-cross validations on two independent datasets, DeepLGP obtained high area under curves (0.90\u20130.98) and area under precision-recall curves (0.91\u20130.98). We found that lncRNA pairs with high similarity had more overlapped target genes. Further experiments showed that genes targeted by the same lncRNA sets had a strong likelihood of causing the same diseases, which could help in identifying disease-causing PCGs.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Availability and implementation<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>https:\/\/github.com\/zty2009\/LncRNA-target-gene.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Supplementary information<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1093\/bioinformatics\/btaa428","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,5,25]],"date-time":"2020-05-25T11:08:09Z","timestamp":1590404889000},"page":"4466-4472","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":118,"title":["DeepLGP: a novel deep learning method for prioritizing lncRNA target genes"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"36","author":[{"given":"Tianyi","family":"Zhao","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology , Harbin, Heilongjiang 150001, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-4508-5365","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Yang","family":"Hu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Bioinformatics Science and Technology, Harbin Medical University , Harbin, Heilongjiang 150081, China"}]},{"given":"Jiajie","family":"Peng","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Computer Science, Northwestern Polytechnical University , Xian, Shanxi 710072, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-6665-6710","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Liang","family":"Cheng","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Bioinformatics Science and Technology, Harbin Medical University , Harbin, Heilongjiang 150081, China"},{"name":"NHC and CAMS Key Laboratory of Molecular Probe and Targeted Theranostics, Harbin Medical University , Harbin, Heilongjiang 150028, China"}]}],"member":"286","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2020,5,29]]},"reference":[{"key":"2023062213524647600_btaa428-B1","first-page":"e60","article-title":"RIsearch2: suffix array-based large-scale prediction of RNA\u2013RNA interactions and siRNA off-targets","volume":"45","author":"Alkan","year":"2017","journal-title":"Nucleic Acids Res"},{"key":"2023062213524647600_btaa428-B2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"D1034","DOI":"10.1093\/nar\/gky905","article-title":"LncRNADisease 2.0: an updated database of long non-coding RNA-associated diseases","volume":"47","author":"Bao","year":"2019","journal-title":"Nucleic Acids Res"},{"key":"2023062213524647600_btaa428-B3","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"11338","DOI":"10.1038\/srep11338","article-title":"Constructing lncRNA functional similarity network based on lncRNA\u2013disease associations and disease semantic similarity","volume":"5","author":"Chen","year":"2015","journal-title":"Sci. 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