Figure 2.

Step-by-step illustration of how DES-ncRNA can be used to identify ncRNA-related components involved in AD progression. The green circles represent the “Human MicroRNAs” dictionary; the gray upside-down triangles represent the “Cellular Component” dictionary; the yellow parallelograms represent ““Disease Ontology”” dictionary; the yellow squares represent the “Human Genes and Proteins” dictionary; and the lime circles represent “Human Long Non-Coding RNAs” dictionary. The edge color is distributed across a color spectrum from hot/red (high frequency co-occurrence/strong association) to cold/blue (small number of co-occurrences, weaker association). The numbers on the edges provide the number of publications that link the associated nodes.