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John AJ, Ghose ET, Gao H, Luck M, Jeong D, Kalari KR, Wang L. ReCorDE: a framework for identifying drug classes targeting shared vulnerabilities with applications to synergistic drug discovery. Front Oncol 2024; 14:1343091. [PMID: 38884087 PMCID: PMC11176476 DOI: 10.3389/fonc.2024.1343091] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/22/2023] [Accepted: 04/18/2024] [Indexed: 06/18/2024] Open
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Cancer is typically treated with combinatorial therapy, and such combinations may be synergistic. However, discovery of these combinations has proven difficult as brute force combinatorial screening approaches are both logistically complex and resource-intensive. Therefore, computational approaches to augment synergistic drug discovery are of interest, but current approaches are limited by their dependencies on combinatorial drug screening training data or molecular profiling data. These dataset dependencies can limit the number and diversity of drugs for which these approaches can make inferences. Herein, we describe a novel computational framework, ReCorDE (Recurrent Correlation of Drugs with Enrichment), that uses publicly-available cell line-derived monotherapy cytotoxicity datasets to identify drug classes targeting shared vulnerabilities across multiple cancer lineages; and we show how these inferences can be used to augment synergistic drug combination discovery. Additionally, we demonstrate in preclinical models that a drug class combination predicted by ReCorDE to target shared vulnerabilities (PARP inhibitors and Aurora kinase inhibitors) exhibits class-class synergy across lineages. ReCorDE functions independently of combinatorial drug screening and molecular profiling data, using only extensive monotherapy cytotoxicity datasets as its input. This allows ReCorDE to make robust inferences for a large, diverse array of drugs. In conclusion, we have described a novel framework for the identification of drug classes targeting shared vulnerabilities using monotherapy cytotoxicity datasets, and we showed how these inferences can be used to aid discovery of novel synergistic drug combinations.
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- August J John
- Department of Molecular Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, United States
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- Department of Molecular Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, United States
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- Department of Molecular Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, United States
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN, United States
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- Biochemistry Department, Lawrence University, Appleton, WI, United States
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- Department of Quantitative Health Sciences, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, United States
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- Department of Molecular Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, United States
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Chen L, Xu J, Zhou Y. PDATC-NCPMKL: Predicting drug's Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical (ATC) codes based on network consistency projection and multiple kernel learning. Comput Biol Med 2024; 169:107862. [PMID: 38150886 DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2023.107862] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/18/2023] [Revised: 11/19/2023] [Accepted: 12/17/2023] [Indexed: 12/29/2023]
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The development and discovery of new drugs is time-consuming and needs lots of human and material resources. Therefore, discovery of novel effects of existing drugs is an important alternative way, which can accelerate the process of designing "new" drugs. The anatomical Therapeutic Chemical (ATC) classification system recommended by World Health Organization (WHO) is a basic research area in this regard. A novel ATC code of an existing drug suggests its novel effects. Some computational models have been proposed, which can predict the drug-ATC code associations. However, their performance is not very high. There still exist spaces for improvement. In this study, a new recommendation system (named PDATC-NCPMKL), which incorporated network consistency projection and multi-kernel learning, was designed to identify drug-ATC code associations. For drugs or ATC codes, several kernels were constructed, which were fused by a multiple kernel learning method and an additional kernel integration scheme. To enhance the performance, the drug-ATC code association adjacency matrix was reformulated by a variant of weighted K nearest known neighbors (WKNKN). The reformulated adjacency matrix, drug and ATC code kernels were fed into network consistency projection to generate the association score matrix. The proposed recommendation system was tested on the ATC codes at the second, third and fourth levels in drug ATC classification system using ten-fold cross-validation. The results indicated that all AUROC and AUPR values were close to or exceeded 0.96. Such performance was higher than some existing computational models. Some additional tests were conducted to prove the utility of adjacency matrix reformulation and to analyze the importance of drug and ATC code kernels.
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- Lei Chen
- College of Information Engineering, Shanghai Maritime University, Shanghai, 201306, China.
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- College of Information Engineering, Shanghai Maritime University, Shanghai, 201306, China.
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- Department of Thoracic Surgery, Sichuan Provincial People's Hospital, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, 610072, China.
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Yu Z, Wu Z, Wang Z, Wang Y, Zhou M, Li W, Liu G, Tang Y. Network-Based Methods and Their Applications in Drug Discovery. J Chem Inf Model 2024; 64:57-75. [PMID: 38150548 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jcim.3c01613] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2023]
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Drug discovery is time-consuming, expensive, and predominantly follows the "one drug → one target → one disease" paradigm. With the rapid development of systems biology and network pharmacology, a novel drug discovery paradigm, "multidrug → multitarget → multidisease", has emerged. This new holistic paradigm of drug discovery aligns well with the essence of networks, leading to the emergence of network-based methods in the field of drug discovery. In this Perspective, we initially introduce the concept and data sources of networks and highlight classical methodologies employed in network-based methods. Subsequently, we focus on the practical applications of network-based methods across various areas of drug discovery, such as target prediction, virtual screening, prediction of drug therapeutic effects or adverse drug events, and elucidation of molecular mechanisms. In addition, we provide representative web servers for researchers to use network-based methods in specific applications. Finally, we discuss several challenges of network-based methods and the directions for future development. In a word, network-based methods could serve as powerful tools to accelerate drug discovery.
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- Zhuohang Yu
- Shanghai Frontiers Science Center of Optogenetic Techniques for Cell Metabolism, Shanghai Key Laboratory of New Drug Design, School of Pharmacy, East China University of Science and Technology, 130 Meilong Road, Shanghai 200237, China
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- Shanghai Frontiers Science Center of Optogenetic Techniques for Cell Metabolism, Shanghai Key Laboratory of New Drug Design, School of Pharmacy, East China University of Science and Technology, 130 Meilong Road, Shanghai 200237, China
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- Shanghai Frontiers Science Center of Optogenetic Techniques for Cell Metabolism, Shanghai Key Laboratory of New Drug Design, School of Pharmacy, East China University of Science and Technology, 130 Meilong Road, Shanghai 200237, China
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- Shanghai Frontiers Science Center of Optogenetic Techniques for Cell Metabolism, Shanghai Key Laboratory of New Drug Design, School of Pharmacy, East China University of Science and Technology, 130 Meilong Road, Shanghai 200237, China
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- Shanghai Frontiers Science Center of Optogenetic Techniques for Cell Metabolism, Shanghai Key Laboratory of New Drug Design, School of Pharmacy, East China University of Science and Technology, 130 Meilong Road, Shanghai 200237, China
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- Shanghai Frontiers Science Center of Optogenetic Techniques for Cell Metabolism, Shanghai Key Laboratory of New Drug Design, School of Pharmacy, East China University of Science and Technology, 130 Meilong Road, Shanghai 200237, China
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- Shanghai Frontiers Science Center of Optogenetic Techniques for Cell Metabolism, Shanghai Key Laboratory of New Drug Design, School of Pharmacy, East China University of Science and Technology, 130 Meilong Road, Shanghai 200237, China
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- Shanghai Frontiers Science Center of Optogenetic Techniques for Cell Metabolism, Shanghai Key Laboratory of New Drug Design, School of Pharmacy, East China University of Science and Technology, 130 Meilong Road, Shanghai 200237, China
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Wang X, Liu M, Zhang Y, He S, Qin C, Li Y, Lu T. Deep fusion learning facilitates anatomical therapeutic chemical recognition in drug repurposing and discovery. Brief Bioinform 2021; 22:6342939. [PMID: 34368838 DOI: 10.1093/bib/bbab289] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/21/2021] [Revised: 07/03/2021] [Accepted: 07/06/2021] [Indexed: 01/17/2023] Open
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The advent of large-scale biomedical data and computational algorithms provides new opportunities for drug repurposing and discovery. It is of great interest to find an appropriate data representation and modeling method to facilitate these studies. The anatomical therapeutic chemical (ATC) classification system, proposed by the World Health Organization (WHO), is an essential source of information for drug repurposing and discovery. Besides, computational methods are applied to predict drug ATC classification. We conducted a systematic review of ATC computational prediction studies and revealed the differences in data sets, data representation, algorithm approaches, and evaluation metrics. We then proposed a deep fusion learning (DFL) framework to optimize the ATC prediction model, namely DeepATC. The methods based on graph convolutional network, inferring biological network and multimodel attentive fusion network were applied in DeepATC to extract the molecular topological information and low-dimensional representation from the molecular graph and heterogeneous biological networks. The results indicated that DeepATC achieved superior model performance with area under the curve (AUC) value at 0.968. Furthermore, the DFL framework was performed for the transcriptome data-based ATC prediction, as well as another independent task that is significantly relevant to drug discovery, namely drug-target interaction. The DFL-based model achieved excellent performance in the above-extended validation task, suggesting that the idea of aggregating the heterogeneous biological network and node's (molecule or protein) self-topological features will bring inspiration for broader drug repurposing and discovery research.
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- Xiting Wang
- Life Science School, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing, China
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- Chinese Medicine School, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing, China
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- Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing, China
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- Chinese Medicine School, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing, China
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- School of Life Sciences, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine and Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Chinese Medicine School, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing, China
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- Integrative Medicine Center in School of Life Sciences, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing, China
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Cui C, Ding X, Wang D, Chen L, Xiao F, Xu T, Zheng M, Luo X, Jiang H, Chen K. Drug repurposing against breast cancer by integrating drug-exposure expression profiles and drug-drug links based on graph neural network. Bioinformatics 2021; 37:2930-2937. [PMID: 33739367 PMCID: PMC8479657 DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btab191] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/30/2020] [Revised: 03/16/2021] [Accepted: 03/18/2021] [Indexed: 02/02/2023] Open
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MOTIVATION Breast cancer is one of the leading causes of cancer deaths among women worldwide. It is necessary to develop new breast cancer drugs because of the shortcomings of existing therapies. The traditional discovery process is time-consuming and expensive. Repositioning of clinically approved drugs has emerged as a novel approach for breast cancer therapy. However, serendipitous or experiential repurposing cannot be used as a routine method. RESULTS In this study, we proposed a graph neural network model GraphRepur based on GraphSAGE for drug repurposing against breast cancer. GraphRepur integrated two major classes of computational methods, drug network-based and drug signature-based. The differentially expressed genes of disease, drug-exposure gene expression data and the drug-drug links information were collected. By extracting the drug signatures and topological structure information contained in the drug relationships, GraphRepur can predict new drugs for breast cancer, outperforming previous state-of-the-art approaches and some classic machine learning methods. The high-ranked drugs have indeed been reported as new uses for breast cancer treatment recently. AVAILABILITYAND IMPLEMENTATION The source code of our model and datasets are available at: https://github.com/cckamy/GraphRepur and https://figshare.com/articles/software/GraphRepur_Breast_Cancer_Drug_Repurposing/14220050. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
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- Chen Cui
- Drug Discovery and Design Center, State Key Laboratory of Drug Research, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201203, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- Drug Discovery and Design Center, State Key Laboratory of Drug Research, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201203, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- Drug Discovery and Design Center, State Key Laboratory of Drug Research, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201203, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- Drug Discovery and Design Center, State Key Laboratory of Drug Research, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201203, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- Drug Discovery and Design Center, State Key Laboratory of Drug Research, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201203, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- Drug Discovery and Design Center, State Key Laboratory of Drug Research, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201203, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
- To whom correspondence should be addressed. or
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- Drug Discovery and Design Center, State Key Laboratory of Drug Research, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201203, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
- To whom correspondence should be addressed. or
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- Drug Discovery and Design Center, State Key Laboratory of Drug Research, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201203, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
- School of Life Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai 200031, China
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- Drug Discovery and Design Center, State Key Laboratory of Drug Research, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201203, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
- School of Life Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai 200031, China
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Kanza S, Graham Frey J. Semantic Technologies in Drug Discovery. SYSTEMS MEDICINE 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-12-801238-3.11520-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/24/2022] Open
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Zhou JP, Chen L, Guo ZH. iATC-NRAKEL: an efficient multi-label classifier for recognizing anatomical therapeutic chemical classes of drugs. Bioinformatics 2020; 36:1391-1396. [PMID: 31593226 DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btz757] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/20/2019] [Revised: 09/10/2019] [Accepted: 10/01/2019] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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MOTIVATION The anatomical therapeutic chemical (ATC) classification system plays an increasingly important role in drug repositioning and discovery. The correct identification of classes in each level of such system that a given drug may belong to is an essential problem. Several multi-label classifiers have been proposed in this regard. Although they provided satisfactory performance, the feature extraction procedures were still rough. More refined features may further improve the predicted quality. RESULTS In this article, we provide a novel multi-label classifier, called iATC-NRAKEL, to predict drug ATC classes in the first level. To obtain more informative drug features, we employed the drug association information in STITCH and KEGG, which was organized by seven drug networks. The powerful network embedding algorithm, Mashup, was adopted to extract informative drug features. The obtained features were fed into the RAndom k-labELsets (RAKEL) algorithm with support vector machine as the basic classification algorithm to construct the classifier. The 10-fold cross-validation of the benchmark dataset with 3883 drugs showed that the accuracy and absolute true were 76.56 and 74.51%, respectively. The comparison results indicated that iATC-NRAKEL was much superior to all previous reported classifiers. Finally, the contribution of each network was analyzed. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION The codes of iATC-NRAKEL are available at https://github.com/zhou256/iATC-NRAKEL.
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- Jian-Peng Zhou
- College of Information Engineering, Shanghai Maritime University, Shanghai 201306, People's Republic of China
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- College of Information Engineering, Shanghai Maritime University, Shanghai 201306, People's Republic of China.,Shanghai Key Laboratory of PMMP, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, People's Republic of China
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- College of Information Engineering, Shanghai Maritime University, Shanghai 201306, People's Republic of China
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Peng Y, Wang M, Xu Y, Wu Z, Wang J, Zhang C, Liu G, Li W, Li J, Tang Y. Drug repositioning by prediction of drug's anatomical therapeutic chemical code via network-based inference approaches. Brief Bioinform 2020; 22:2058-2072. [PMID: 32221552 DOI: 10.1093/bib/bbaa027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/02/2020] [Revised: 02/05/2020] [Accepted: 02/17/2020] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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Drug discovery and development is a time-consuming and costly process. Therefore, drug repositioning has become an effective approach to address the issues by identifying new therapeutic or pharmacological actions for existing drugs. The drug's anatomical therapeutic chemical (ATC) code is a hierarchical classification system categorized as five levels according to the organs or systems that drugs act and the pharmacology, therapeutic and chemical properties of drugs. The 2nd-, 3rd- and 4th-level ATC codes reserved the therapeutic and pharmacological information of drugs. With the hypothesis that drugs with similar structures or targets would possess similar ATC codes, we exploited a network-based approach to predict the 2nd-, 3rd- and 4th-level ATC codes by constructing substructure drug-ATC (SD-ATC), target drug-ATC (TD-ATC) and Substructure&Target drug-ATC (STD-ATC) networks. After 10-fold cross validation and two external validations, the STD-ATC models outperformed the SD-ATC and TD-ATC ones. Furthermore, with KR as fingerprint, the STD-ATC model was identified as the optimal model with AUC values at 0.899 ± 0.015, 0.916 and 0.893 for 10-fold cross validation, external validation set 1 and external validation set 2, respectively. To illustrate the predictive capability of the STD-ATC model with KR fingerprint, as a case study, we predicted 25 FDA-approved drugs (22 drugs were actually purchased) to have potential activities on heart failure using that model. Experiments in vitro confirmed that 8 of the 22 old drugs have shown mild to potent cardioprotective activities on both hypoxia model and oxygen-glucose deprivation model, which demonstrated that our STD-ATC prediction model would be an effective tool for drug repositioning.
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- Yayuan Peng
- East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, China
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- East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, China
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- East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, China
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- East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, China
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- East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, China
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- East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, China
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- East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, China
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- East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, China
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- East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, China
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- East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, China
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Lin J, Chen H, Li S, Liu Y, Li X, Yu B. Accurate prediction of potential druggable proteins based on genetic algorithm and Bagging-SVM ensemble classifier. Artif Intell Med 2019; 98:35-47. [DOI: 10.1016/j.artmed.2019.07.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/23/2018] [Revised: 03/03/2019] [Accepted: 07/18/2019] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Chen L, Liu T, Zhao X. Inferring anatomical therapeutic chemical (ATC) class of drugs using shortest path and random walk with restart algorithms. Biochim Biophys Acta Mol Basis Dis 2017; 1864:2228-2240. [PMID: 29247833 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbadis.2017.12.019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/07/2017] [Revised: 12/01/2017] [Accepted: 12/12/2017] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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The anatomical therapeutic chemical (ATC) classification system is a widely accepted drug classification scheme. This system comprises five levels and includes several classes in each level. Drugs are classified into classes according to their therapeutic effects and characteristics. The first level includes 14 main classes. In this study, we proposed two network-based models to infer novel potential chemicals deemed to belong in the first level of ATC classification. To build these models, two large chemical networks were constructed using the chemical-chemical interaction information retrieved from the Search Tool for Interactions of Chemicals (STITCH). Two classic network algorithms, shortest path (SP) and random walk with restart (RWR) algorithms, were executed on the corresponding network to mine novel chemicals for each ATC class using the validated drugs in a class as seed nodes. Then, the obtained chemicals yielded by these two algorithms were further evaluated by a permutation test and an association test. The former can exclude chemicals produced by the structure of the network, i.e., false positive discoveries. By contrast, the latter identifies the most important chemicals that have strong associations with the ATC class. Comparisons indicated that the two models can provide quite dissimilar results, suggesting that the results yielded by one model can be essential supplements for those obtained by the other model. In addition, several representative inferred chemicals were analyzed to confirm the reliability of the results generated by the two models. This article is part of a Special Issue entitled: Accelerating Precision Medicine through Genetic and Genomic Big Data Analysis edited by Yudong Cai & Tao Huang.
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- Lei Chen
- College of Information Engineering, Shanghai Maritime University, Shanghai 201306, People's Republic of China.
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- College of Information Engineering, Shanghai Maritime University, Shanghai 201306, People's Republic of China.
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- College of Information Engineering, Shanghai Maritime University, Shanghai 201306, People's Republic of China
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Olson T, Singh R. Predicting anatomic therapeutic chemical classification codes using tiered learning. BMC Bioinformatics 2017; 18:266. [PMID: 28617230 PMCID: PMC5471942 DOI: 10.1186/s12859-017-1660-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND The low success rate and high cost of drug discovery requires the development of new paradigms to identify molecules of therapeutic value. The Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical (ATC) Code System is a World Health Organization (WHO) proposed classification that assigns multi-level codes to compounds based on their therapeutic, pharmacological and chemical characteristics as well as the in-vivo sites(s) of activity. The ability to predict ATC codes of compounds can assist in creation of high-quality chemical libraries for drug screening and in applications such as drug repositioning. We propose a machine learning architecture called tiered learning for prediction of ATC codes that relies on the prediction results of the higher levels of the ATC code to simplify the predictions of the lower levels. RESULTS The proposed approach was validated using a number of compounds in both cross-validation and test setting. The validation experiments compared chemical descriptors, initialization methods and classification algorithms. The prediction accuracy obtained with tiered learning was found to be either comparable or better than that of established methods. Additionally, the experiments demonstrated the generalizability of the tiered learning architecture, in that its use was found to improve prediction rates for a majority of machine learning algorithms when compared to their stand-alone application. CONCLUSION The basis of our approach lies in the observation that anatomical-therapeutic biological activity of certain types typically precludes activities of many other types. Thus, there exists a characteristic distribution of the ATC codes, which can be leveraged to limit the search-space of possible codes that can be ascribed at a particular level once the codes at the preceding levels are known. Tiered learning utilizes this observation to constrain the learning space for ATC codes at a particular level based on the ATC code at higher levels. This simplifies the prediction and allows for improved accuracy.
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- Thomas Olson
- Department of Computer Science, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Department of Computer Science, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA, USA. .,Center for Discovery and Innovation in Parasitic Diseases, University of California, San Diego, CA, USA.
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