circGPAcorr: an integrative tool for functional annotation of circular RNAs using expression data

Abstract Circular RNAs play a crucial role in cell development and serve as biomarkers in many diseases. Nevertheless, the function of many circular RNAs remains unknown. This function can be inferred from sponging and silencing interactions with micro RNAs and messenger RNAs. We recently proposed a...

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Main Authors: Petr Ryšavý, Alikhan Anuarbekov, Michaela Dostálová Merkerová, Jiří Kléma
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Published: BMC 2025-08-01
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s13040-025-00468-3
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author Petr Ryšavý
Alikhan Anuarbekov
Michaela Dostálová Merkerová
Jiří Kléma
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description Abstract Circular RNAs play a crucial role in cell development and serve as biomarkers in many diseases. Nevertheless, the function of many circular RNAs remains unknown. This function can be inferred from sponging and silencing interactions with micro RNAs and messenger RNAs. We recently proposed a network-based circRNA functional annotation tool, circGPA. However, validation data for RNA interactions are often sparse and predicted interactions contain many false positives. To address this issue, we propose an extended algorithm named circGPAcorr, which uses expression data to weight the interactions, resulting in more precise functional annotation. To assess the significance of the results, the p-value is calculated using reduction to circGPA, a generating-polynomial-based method. We show that the problem is #P-hard, and thus computationally difficult. The circGPAcorr algorithm is tested on publicly available myelodysplastic syndromes expression data, providing gene ontology annotations that align with the literature on myelodysplastic syndromes. At the same time, we demonstrate its performance in the circRNA-disease annotation task.
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spelling doaj-art-e6806ead8ccd47f2875c4032fe2be7992025-08-20T04:01:53ZengBMCBioData Mining1756-03812025-08-0118113210.1186/s13040-025-00468-3circGPAcorr: an integrative tool for functional annotation of circular RNAs using expression dataPetr Ryšavý0Alikhan Anuarbekov1Michaela Dostálová Merkerová2Jiří Kléma3Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University in PragueDepartment of Computer Science, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University in PragueDepartment of Genomics, Institute of Hematology and Blood TransfusionDepartment of Computer Science, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University in PragueAbstract Circular RNAs play a crucial role in cell development and serve as biomarkers in many diseases. Nevertheless, the function of many circular RNAs remains unknown. This function can be inferred from sponging and silencing interactions with micro RNAs and messenger RNAs. We recently proposed a network-based circRNA functional annotation tool, circGPA. However, validation data for RNA interactions are often sparse and predicted interactions contain many false positives. To address this issue, we propose an extended algorithm named circGPAcorr, which uses expression data to weight the interactions, resulting in more precise functional annotation. To assess the significance of the results, the p-value is calculated using reduction to circGPA, a generating-polynomial-based method. We show that the problem is #P-hard, and thus computationally difficult. The circGPAcorr algorithm is tested on publicly available myelodysplastic syndromes expression data, providing gene ontology annotations that align with the literature on myelodysplastic syndromes. At the same time, we demonstrate its performance in the circRNA-disease annotation task.https://doi.org/10.1186/s13040-025-00468-3Functional annotationCircRNAGenerating polynomialGene expression
spellingShingle Petr Ryšavý
Alikhan Anuarbekov
Michaela Dostálová Merkerová
Jiří Kléma
circGPAcorr: an integrative tool for functional annotation of circular RNAs using expression data
BioData Mining
Functional annotation
CircRNA
Generating polynomial
Gene expression
title circGPAcorr: an integrative tool for functional annotation of circular RNAs using expression data
title_full circGPAcorr: an integrative tool for functional annotation of circular RNAs using expression data
title_fullStr circGPAcorr: an integrative tool for functional annotation of circular RNAs using expression data
title_full_unstemmed circGPAcorr: an integrative tool for functional annotation of circular RNAs using expression data
title_short circGPAcorr: an integrative tool for functional annotation of circular RNAs using expression data
title_sort circgpacorr an integrative tool for functional annotation of circular rnas using expression data
topic Functional annotation
CircRNA
Generating polynomial
Gene expression
url https://doi.org/10.1186/s13040-025-00468-3
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