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ArticleiScience2023

Multi-task learning for predicting synergistic drug combinations based on auto-encoding multi-relational graphs.

Wenyu Shan, Cong Shen, Lingyun Luo, Pingjian Ding

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Wenyu ShanSchool of Computer Science, University of South China, Hengyang, Hunan 421001, China.
Cong ShenCollege of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha, Hunan 410082, China.
Lingyun LuoSchool of Computer Science, University of South China, Hengyang, Hunan 421001, China.
Pingjian DingSchool of Computer Science, University of South China, Hengyang, Hunan 421001, China.

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Abstract

Combinatorial drug therapy is a promising approach for treating complex diseases by combining drugs with synergistic effects. However, predicting effective drug combinations is challenging due to the complexity of biological systems and the limited understanding of pathophysiological mechanisms and drug targets. In this paper, we proposed a computational framework called VGAETF (Variational Graph Autoencoder Tensor Decomposition), which leveraged multi-relational graph to model complex relationships between entities in biological systems and predicted disease-related synergistic drug combinations in an end-to-end manner. In the computational experiments, VGAETF achieved high performances (AUROC [the area under receiver operating characteristic] = 0.9767, AUPR [the area under precision-recall] = 0.9660), outperforming other compared methods. Moreover, case studies further demonstrated the effectiveness of VGAETF in identifying potential disease-related synergistic drug combinations.

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