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ArticleNature communications2017

A network integration approach for drug-target interaction prediction and computational drug repositioning from heterogeneous information.

Yunan Luo, Xinbin Zhao, Jingtian Zhou, Jinglin Yang, Yanqing Zhang, Wenhua Kuang, Jian Peng, Ligong Chen, Jianyang Zeng

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Article in Nature communications, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 308 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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308citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
49.8field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

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308 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 858 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Yunan LuoInstitute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7728-6412
Xinbin ZhaoSchool of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China.
Jingtian ZhouSchool of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China.
Jinglin YangInstitute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China.
Yanqing ZhangInstitute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China.
Wenhua KuangSchool of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China.
Jian PengDepartment of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, 61801, USA. jianpeng@illinois.edu.
Ligong ChenSchool of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China. ligongchen@biomed.tsinghua.edu.cn.
Jianyang ZengInstitute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China. zengjy321@tsinghua.edu.cn.
Tsinghua University · CNUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign · USSichuan University · CN

Funding

Structure-Based Prediction of the InteractomeR01GM081871 · NIGMS · MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI BERGER, BONNIE · 2008 to 2020
$4.3M
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The emergence of large-scale genomic, chemical and pharmacological data provides new opportunities for drug discovery and repositioning. In this work, we develop a computational pipeline, called DTINet, to predict novel drug-target interactions from a constructed heterogeneous network, which integrates diverse drug-related information. DTINet focuses on learning a low-dimensional vector representation of features, which accurately explains the topological properties of individual nodes in the heterogeneous network, and then makes prediction based on these representations via a vector space projection scheme. DTINet achieves substantial performance improvement over other state-of-the-art methods for drug-target interaction prediction. Moreover, we experimentally validate the novel interactions between three drugs and the cyclooxygenase proteins predicted by DTINet, and demonstrate the new potential applications of these identified cyclooxygenase inhibitors in preventing inflammatory diseases. These results indicate that DTINet can provide a practically useful tool for integrating heterogeneous information to predict new drug-target interactions and repurpose existing drugs.Network-based data integration for drug-target prediction is a promising avenue for drug repositioning, but performance is wanting. Here, the authors introduce DTINet, whose performance is enhanced in the face of noisy, incomplete and high-dimensional biological data by learning low-dimensional vector representations.

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AlgorithmsAnimalsCelecoxibCells, CulturedComputational BiologyCyclooxygenase 2Drug RepositioningHumansMice, Inbred C57BLModels, MolecularPharmaceutical PreparationsProtein BindingProtein DomainsProteinsCelecoxibCyclooxygenase 2Pharmaceutical PreparationsProteinsPTGS2 protein, human

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