Prediction of virus-receptor interactions based on multi-view learning and link prediction

Receptor-binding is the first step of viral infection. Discovering potential virus-receptor interactions may give insight into potential strategies for treating viral infectious diseases. Most of computational methods for the virus-receptor interaction prediction are mainly based on sequence information. They neither makes effective use of structure information nor effectively handles with missing values of multiple similarities. In addition, the Link Prediction via linear optimization (LP) only uses contribution of neighbors of a node and ignores contribution of neighbors of another node on the network link. In this article, we present a virus-receptor interaction prediction method (MVLP) based on Multi-View learning and LP via contributions of all neighbors of two nodes on the network link. First, missing values of the receptor secondary structure similarity, the receptor conserved domain secondary structure similarity, the viral protein secondary structure similarity, the viral protein sequence similarity and the viral genome sequence similarity are updated by the gaussian radial basis function (GRB). To improve these similarities, we fuse updated and initial values of each similarity with multi-view learning, respectively. Next, three virus values and receptor similarities are integrated into the comprehensive virus and receptor similarity by the averaging method, respectively. Finally, LP based on contribution of neighbors of two nodes is presented for the virus-receptor interaction prediction. To evaluate the ability of MVLP, we compare MVLP with four related methods in 10 fold Cross-Validation (10CV). Computational results indicate that an average Area Under Curve (AUC) values of MVLP on viralReceptor sup and viralReceptor are 0.9427 and 0.9444, respectively, which are superior to other related methods. Furthermore, a case study also demonstrates the ability of MVLP in practice.