INTRODUCTION: Predicting the relationship between diseases and microbes can  significantly enhance disease diagnosis and treatment, while providing crucial  scientific support for public health, ecological health, and drug development.  METHODS: In this manuscript, we introduce an innovative computational model named  BANSMDA, which integrates Bilinear Attention Networks with sparse autoencoder to  uncover hidden connections between microbes and diseases. In BANSMDA, we first  constructed a heterogeneous microbe-disease network by integrating multiple  Gaussian similarity measures for diseases and mi...