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ReviewFrontiers in pharmacology2025

Machine learning-based drug-drug interaction prediction: a critical review of models, limitations, and data challenges.

Flaviu-Ioan Gheorghita, Vlad-Ioan Bocanet, Laszlo Barna Iantovics

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Review in Frontiers in pharmacology, 2025. 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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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Flaviu-Ioan GheorghitaDoctoral School of Letters, Humanities and Applied Sciences, George Emil Palade University of Medicine, Pharmacy, Science, and Technology of Târgu Mureş, Târgu Mureş, Romania.
Vlad-Ioan BocanetDepartment of Manufacturing Engineering, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
Laszlo Barna IantovicsDepartment of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, George Emil Palade University of Medicine, Pharmacy, Science, and Technology of Târgu Mureş, Târgu Mureş, Romania.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Background/Objectives: New computational methods, based on statistical, machine learning, and deep learning techniques using drug-related entities (e.g., genes, protein bindings, etc.), help reduce the costs of Methods: Of the 49 papers published in Web of Science in the last 6 years, 24 papers were considered relevant based on information presented in their titles and abstracts. The included articles focus specifically on predicting DDIs using a type of machine learning algorithm. Excluded articles focused on drug discovery, drug repurposing, molecular representation, or the extraction of biomedical interactions. The methodology, results limitations, and future research directions were studied for each paper. Common challenges, limitations, and future research directions were analyzed. Results and conclusion: The main limitations are class imbalance, poor performance on new drugs, limited explainability, and the need for additional data sources.

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adverse drug reactionsdrug-drug interactiongraph-based learninghealthcaremachine learning techniquessemi-supervised learningsupervised learning

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PMID40808680
PMCPMC12344460

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