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ArticleJournal of cheminformatics2020

DTiGEMS+: drug-target interaction prediction using graph embedding, graph mining, and similarity-based techniques.

Maha A Thafar, Rawan S Olayan, Haitham Ashoor, Somayah Albaradei, Vladimir B Bajic, Xin Gao, Takashi Gojobori, Magbubah Essack

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Maha A ThafarComputer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering Division (CEMSE), Computational Bioscience Research Center (CBRC), King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Rawan S OlayanComputer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering Division (CEMSE), Computational Bioscience Research Center (CBRC), King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Haitham AshoorComputer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering Division (CEMSE), Computational Bioscience Research Center (CBRC), King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Somayah AlbaradeiComputer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering Division (CEMSE), Computational Bioscience Research Center (CBRC), King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Vladimir B BajicComputer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering Division (CEMSE), Computational Bioscience Research Center (CBRC), King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Xin GaoComputer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering Division (CEMSE), Computational Bioscience Research Center (CBRC), King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Takashi GojoboriComputer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering Division (CEMSE), Computational Bioscience Research Center (CBRC), King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Magbubah EssackComputer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering Division (CEMSE), Computational Bioscience Research Center (CBRC), King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. magbubah.essack@kaust.edu.sa.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2709-5356

Funding

King Abdullah University of Science and Technology BAS/1/1059-01-01King Abdullah University of Science and Technology BAS/1/1606-01-01King Abdullah University of Science and Technology BAS/1/1624-01-01King Abdullah University of Science and Technology FCC/1/1976-17-01King Abdullah University of Science and Technology FCC/1/1976-26-01
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Abstract

In silico prediction of drug-target interactions is a critical phase in the sustainable drug development process, especially when the research focus is to capitalize on the repositioning of existing drugs. However, developing such computational methods is not an easy task, but is much needed, as current methods that predict potential drug-target interactions suffer from high false-positive rates. Here we introduce DTiGEMS+, a computational method that predicts Drug-Target interactions using Graph Embedding, graph Mining, and Similarity-based techniques. DTiGEMS+ combines similarity-based as well as feature-based approaches, and models the identification of novel drug-target interactions as a link prediction problem in a heterogeneous network. DTiGEMS+ constructs the heterogeneous network by augmenting the known drug-target interactions graph with two other complementary graphs namely: drug-drug similarity, target-target similarity. DTiGEMS+ combines different computational techniques to provide the final drug target prediction, these techniques include graph embeddings, graph mining, and machine learning. DTiGEMS+ integrates multiple drug-drug similarities and target-target similarities into the final heterogeneous graph construction after applying a similarity selection procedure as well as a similarity fusion algorithm. Using four benchmark datasets, we show DTiGEMS+ substantially improves prediction performance compared to other state-of-the-art in silico methods developed to predict of drug-target interactions by achieving the highest average AUPR across all datasets (0.92), which reduces the error rate by 33.3% relative to the second-best performing model in the state-of-the-art methods comparison.

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BioinformaticsCheminformaticsDrug repositioningDrug–target interactionGraph embeddingHeterogenous networkMachine learningSimilarity-basedSimilarity integration

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PMID33431036
PMCPMC7325230

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