Fig. 1.
Benchmarking the quality of inferred miRNA–disease associations. The miRNA–disease associations inferred from three sets of miRNA–protein associations were ranked according to the scores
. (a) Number of correct miRNA–disease associations obtained according to the gold standard from Chen and Zhang (2013) as a function of rank. (b) Fold enrichment of correct miRNA–disease associations over the expectation from a random background model. We only show enrichments starting from rank 25, as the counts are too low to reliably estimate the enrichment below this rank. Notice that only predicted miRNA–disease associations where the miRNA or the disease is present in the benchmark dataset is presented here, resulting in fewer data points than in the full prediction sets
