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ArticleCell reports methods2023

RECOVER identifies synergistic drug combinations in vitro through sequential model optimization.

Paul Bertin, Jarrid Rector-Brooks, Deepak Sharma, Thomas Gaudelet, Andrew Anighoro, Torsten Gross, Francisco Martínez-Peña, Eileen L Tang, M S Suraj, Cristian Regep and 10 more

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Article in Cell reports methods, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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10citing papers in PubMed
3.4field-weighted citation impact, top 6% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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Who cites it

10 citing papers in PubMed, 17 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

20 authors at 5 institutions in 3 countries.

Paul BertinMila, the Quebec AI Institute, Montreal, QC, Canada.
Jarrid Rector-BrooksMila, the Quebec AI Institute, Montreal, QC, Canada.
Deepak SharmaMila, the Quebec AI Institute, Montreal, QC, Canada.
Thomas GaudeletRelation Therapeutics, London, UK.
Andrew AnighoroRelation Therapeutics, London, UK.
Torsten GrossRelation Therapeutics, London, UK.
Francisco Martínez-PeñaDepartment of Chemistry, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA, USA.
Eileen L TangDepartment of Chemistry, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA, USA.
M S SurajRelation Therapeutics, London, UK.
Cristian RegepRelation Therapeutics, London, UK.
Jeremy B R HayterRelation Therapeutics, London, UK.
Maksym KorablyovMila, the Quebec AI Institute, Montreal, QC, Canada.
Nicholas ValianteInnovac Therapeutics, Inc., Cambridge, MA, USA.
Almer van der SlootIRIC, Institute for Research in Immunology and Cancer, Université de Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada.
Mike TyersProgram in Molecular Medicine, Peter Gilgan Centre for Research and Learning, The Hospital for Sick Children, 686 Bay Street, Toronto, ON M5G 0A4, Canada.
Charles E S RobertsRelation Therapeutics, London, UK.
Michael M BronsteinRelation Therapeutics, London, UK; Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
Luke L LairsonDepartment of Chemistry, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA, USA.
Jake P Taylor-KingRelation Therapeutics, London, UK. Electronic address: jake@relationrx.com.
Yoshua BengioMila, the Quebec AI Institute, Montreal, QC, Canada.
Mila - Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute · CAScripps Research Institute · USHospital for Sick Children · CAInstitute for Research in Immunology and Cancer · CAUniversity of Oxford · GB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

For large libraries of small molecules, exhaustive combinatorial chemical screens become infeasible to perform when considering a range of disease models, assay conditions, and dose ranges. Deep learning models have achieved state-of-the-art results in silico for the prediction of synergy scores. However, databases of drug combinations are biased toward synergistic agents and results do not generalize out of distribution. During 5 rounds of experimentation, we employ sequential model optimization with a deep learning model to select drug combinations increasingly enriched for synergism and active against a cancer cell line-evaluating only ∼5% of the total search space. Moreover, we find that learned drug embeddings (using structural information) begin to reflect biological mechanisms. In silico benchmarking suggests search queries are ∼5-10× enriched for highly synergistic drug combinations by using sequential rounds of evaluation when compared with random selection or ∼3× when using a pretrained model.

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Computational BiologyNeoplasmsDrug CombinationsDrug SynergismHumansDrug Combinationsactive learningCP: Systems biologydeep learningdrug combinationdrug synergyin vitro screeningmachine learningoncologysequential model optimization

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PMID37797618
PMCPMC10626197
OpenAlexW4387343780

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