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After radical prostatectomy (RP) and radical radiotherapy (RT), patients may experience biochemical recurrence (BCR) of prostate cancer, indicating disease progression. Therefore, it is meaningful to predict and accurately assess the risk of BCR, and a machine-learning-based-model for BCR prediction in PCa based on fatty-acid metabolism and cancer-cell stemness was developed. A stemness prediction model and ssGSEA (single-sample gene set enrichment analysis) empirical cumulative distribution function algorithm were used to score the stemness scoring (mRNAsi) and fatty-acid metabolism of prostate-cancer samples, respectively, and further analysis showed that the two scores of the samples were positively correlated. Based on WGCNA (weighted correlation network analysis), we discovered modules significantly associated with both stemness and fatty-acid metabolism and obtained the genes within them. Then, based on this gene set, 101 algorithm combinations of 10 machine-learning methods were used for training and prediction BCR of PCa, and the model with the best prediction effect was named fat_stemness_BCR. Compared with 23 published PCa BCR models, the fat_stemness_BCR model performs better in TCGA and CPGEA data. To facilitate the use of the model, the trained model was encapsulated into an R package and an online service tool (PCaMLmodel, Version 1.0) was built. 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