Fig. 4

Distribution of area under the Receiver Operating Characteristic Curve (AUC) for term-to-miRNA (a) and miRNA-to-term (b) rankings. For term-to-miRNA rankings, the terms constituting a given disease name (obtained from the miR2Disease knowledge base) were used as the query, the query length refers to the number of terms, and the miRNAs associated with the disease were utilized as the gold standard. For miRNA-to-term rankings, the miRNAs associated with a given disease were used as the query, the query length refers to the number of miRNAs, and the terms constituting the disease name were utilized as the gold standard. For both types of rankings, the AUC values are shown stratified across various query lengths