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ArticleBMC bioinformatics2016

A multiple kernel learning algorithm for drug-target interaction prediction.

André C A Nascimento, Ricardo B C Prudêncio, Ivan G Costa

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Article in BMC bioinformatics, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 82 papers.

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André C A NascimentoCenter of Informatics, UFPE, Recife, Brazil. acan@cin.ufpe.br.
Ricardo B C PrudêncioCenter of Informatics, UFPE, Recife, Brazil. rbcp@cin.ufpe.br.
Ivan G CostaCenter of Informatics, UFPE, Recife, Brazil. ivan.costa@rwth-aachen.de.
Hospital das Clínicas da Universidade Federal de Pernambuco · BR

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Abstract

backgroundDrug-target networks are receiving a lot of attention in late years, given its relevance for pharmaceutical innovation and drug lead discovery. Different in silico approaches have been proposed for the identification of new drug-target interactions, many of which are based on kernel methods. Despite technical advances in the latest years, these methods are not able to cope with large drug-target interaction spaces and to integrate multiple sources of biological information.

resultsWe propose KronRLS-MKL, which models the drug-target interaction problem as a link prediction task on bipartite networks. This method allows the integration of multiple heterogeneous information sources for the identification of new interactions, and can also work with networks of arbitrary size. Moreover, it automatically selects the more relevant kernels by returning weights indicating their importance in the drug-target prediction at hand. Empirical analysis on four data sets using twenty distinct kernels indicates that our method has higher or comparable predictive performance than 18 competing methods in all prediction tasks. Moreover, the predicted weights reflect the predictive quality of each kernel on exhaustive pairwise experiments, which indicates the success of the method to automatically reveal relevant biological sources.

conclusionsOur analysis show that the proposed data integration strategy is able to improve the quality of the predicted interactions, and can speed up the identification of new drug-target interactions as well as identify relevant information for the task. AVAILABILITY: The source code and data sets are available at www.cin.ufpe.br/~acan/kronrlsmkl/.

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