Table 2 Performance comparisons of GrwLDA, LRLSLDA and KATZLDA methods based on the newly collected lncRNAs associated with colon, gastric and kidney cancer by the updates of LncRNADisease database and their ranking of the three methods.

From: Global network random walk for predicting potential human lncRNA-disease associations

disease

lncRNA

LRLSLDA

KATZLDA

GrwLDA

Colon cancer

HOTAIR

2

2

1

Colon cancer

CRNDE

19

31

3

Colon cancer

MALAT1

1

1

2

Colon cancer

KCNQ1OT1

8

23

5

Colon cancer

LSINCT5

21

11

15

Gastric cancer

H19

2

1

1

Gastric cancer

HOTAIR

1

5

2

Gastric cancer

MEG3

3

2

3

Gastric cancer

PVT1

4

3

4

Gastric cancer

CDKN2B-AS1

7

6

7

Gastric cancer

LSINCT5

14

15

23

Gastric cancer

UCA1

70

19

16

Gastric cancer

SPRY4-IT1

72

44

45

Kidney cancer

H19

6

1

1

Kidney cancer

PVT1

12

3

3

Kidney cancer

MEG3

15

2

7

Kidney cancer

MALAT1

26

4

10

Kidney cancer

GAS5

45

15

29

Kidney cancer

KCNQ1OT1

66

36

37

Average ranking of the three diseases

20.74

11.79

11.26