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Li X, Xue C, Zhu Z, Yu X, Yang Q, Cui L, Li M. Application of GWAS summary data and drug-induced gene expression profiles of neural progenitor cells in psychiatric drug prioritization analysis. Mol Psychiatry 2024:10.1038/s41380-024-02660-z. [PMID: 39003413 DOI: 10.1038/s41380-024-02660-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/24/2023] [Revised: 06/24/2024] [Accepted: 07/02/2024] [Indexed: 07/15/2024]
Abstract
Common psychiatric disorders constitute one of the most substantial healthcare burdens worldwide. However, drug development in psychiatry remains hampered partially due to the lack of approaches to estimating drugs that can simultaneously modulate the expression of a nontrivial fraction of disease susceptibility genes. We proposed a new drug prioritization strategy under the framework of our previously proposed phenotype-associated tissues estimation approach (DESE) by investigating the drugs' selective perturbation effect on disease susceptibility genes. Based on the genome-wide association study summary data and drug-induced gene expression profiles of neural progenitor cells, we applied this strategy to prioritize candidate drugs for schizophrenia, depression and bipolar I disorder and identified several known therapeutic drugs among the top-ranked drug candidates. Also, our results revealed that the disease susceptibility genes involved in the selective gene perturbation analysis were enriched with many biologically sensible function terms and interacted with known therapeutic drugs. Our results suggested that selective gene perturbation analysis could be a promising starting point to prioritize biologically sensible drug candidates under the "one drug, multiple targets" paradigm for the drug development of common psychiatric disorders.
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Affiliation(s)
- Xiangyi Li
- Program in Bioinformatics, Zhongshan School of Medicine and The Fifth Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, 510080, Guangdong, China
- Key Laboratory of Tropical Disease Control (Sun Yat-sen University), Ministry of Education, Guangzhou, 510080, Guangdong, China
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- Program in Bioinformatics, Zhongshan School of Medicine and The Fifth Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, 510080, Guangdong, China
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- Program in Bioinformatics, Zhongshan School of Medicine and The Fifth Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, 510080, Guangdong, China
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- Program in Bioinformatics, Zhongshan School of Medicine and The Fifth Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, 510080, Guangdong, China
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- Program in Bioinformatics, Zhongshan School of Medicine and The Fifth Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, 510080, Guangdong, China
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- Department of Neurology, The First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, 510080, Guangdong, China.
- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Diagnosis and Treatment of Major Neurological Diseases, Guangzhou, 510080, Guangdong, China.
- National Key Clinical Department and Key Discipline of Neurology, Guangzhou, 510080, Guangdong, China.
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- Program in Bioinformatics, Zhongshan School of Medicine and The Fifth Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, 510080, Guangdong, China.
- Key Laboratory of Tropical Disease Control (Sun Yat-sen University), Ministry of Education, Guangzhou, 510080, Guangdong, China.
- Research Center of Medical Sciences, Guangdong Provincial People's Hospital, Guangdong Academy of Medical Sciences, Guangdong, Guangzhou, 510080, China.
- Center for Precision Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, 510080, Guangdong, China.
- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Biomedical Imaging and Guangdong Provincial Engineering Research Center of Molecular Imaging, The Fifth Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Zhuhai, 519000, Guangdong, China.
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Meimetis N, Pullen KM, Zhu DY, Nilsson A, Hoang TN, Magliacane S, Lauffenburger DA. AutoTransOP: translating omics signatures without orthologue requirements using deep learning. NPJ Syst Biol Appl 2024; 10:13. [PMID: 38287079 PMCID: PMC10825146 DOI: 10.1038/s41540-024-00341-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/22/2023] [Accepted: 01/17/2024] [Indexed: 01/31/2024] Open
Abstract
The development of therapeutics and vaccines for human diseases requires a systematic understanding of human biology. Although animal and in vitro culture models can elucidate some disease mechanisms, they typically fail to adequately recapitulate human biology as evidenced by the predominant likelihood of clinical trial failure. To address this problem, we developed AutoTransOP, a neural network autoencoder framework, to map omics profiles from designated species or cellular contexts into a global latent space, from which germane information for different contexts can be identified without the typically imposed requirement of matched orthologues. This approach was found in general to perform at least as well as current alternative methods in identifying animal/culture-specific molecular features predictive of other contexts-most importantly without requiring homology matching. For an especially challenging test case, we successfully applied our framework to a set of inter-species vaccine serology studies, where 1-to-1 mapping between human and non-human primate features does not exist.
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- Nikolaos Meimetis
- Department of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA
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- Department of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA
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- Department of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA
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- Department of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA
- Department of Biology and Biological Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, SE, 41296, Sweden
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- School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, 99164-236, USA
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- Institute of Informatics, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA
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- Department of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA.
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Imakura T, Sato S, Koyama K, Ogawa H, Niimura T, Murakami K, Yamashita Y, Haji K, Naito N, Kagawa K, Kawano H, Zamami Y, Ishizawa K, Nishioka Y. A polo-like kinase inhibitor identified by computational repositioning attenuates pulmonary fibrosis. Respir Res 2023; 24:148. [PMID: 37269004 DOI: 10.1186/s12931-023-02446-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/28/2022] [Accepted: 05/08/2023] [Indexed: 06/04/2023] Open
Abstract
BACKGROUND Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a fatal fibrotic lung disease with few effective therapeutic options. Recently, drug repositioning, which involves identifying novel therapeutic potentials for existing drugs, has been popularized as a new approach for the development of novel therapeutic reagents. However, this approach has not yet been fully utilized in the field of pulmonary fibrosis. METHODS The present study identified novel therapeutic options for pulmonary fibrosis using a systematic computational approach for drug repositioning based on integration of public gene expression signatures of drug and diseases (in silico screening approach). RESULTS Among the top compounds predicted to be therapeutic for IPF by the in silico approach, we selected BI2536, a polo-like kinase (PLK) 1/2 inhibitor, as a candidate for treating pulmonary fibrosis using an in silico analysis. However, BI2536 accelerated mortality and weight loss rate in an experimental mouse model of pulmonary fibrosis. Because immunofluorescence staining revealed that PLK1 expression was dominant in myofibroblasts while PLK2 expression was dominant in lung epithelial cells, we next focused on the anti-fibrotic effect of the selective PLK1 inhibitor GSK461364. Consequently, GSK461364 attenuated pulmonary fibrosis with acceptable mortality and weight loss in mice. CONCLUSIONS These findings suggest that targeting PLK1 may be a novel therapeutic approach for pulmonary fibrosis by inhibiting lung fibroblast proliferation without affecting lung epithelial cells. In addition, while in silico screening is useful, it is essential to fully determine the biological activities of candidates by wet-lab validation studies.
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- Takeshi Imakura
- Department of Respiratory Medicine and Rheumatology, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Tokushima University, 3-18-15 Kuramoto-cho, Tokushima, 770-8503, Japan
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- Department of Respiratory Medicine and Rheumatology, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Tokushima University, 3-18-15 Kuramoto-cho, Tokushima, 770-8503, Japan
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- Department of Respiratory Medicine and Rheumatology, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Tokushima University, 3-18-15 Kuramoto-cho, Tokushima, 770-8503, Japan
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Tokushima University, Tokushima, Japan
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- Department of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Tokushima University, Tokushima, Japan
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- Department of Respiratory Medicine and Rheumatology, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Tokushima University, 3-18-15 Kuramoto-cho, Tokushima, 770-8503, Japan
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- Department of Respiratory Medicine and Rheumatology, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Tokushima University, 3-18-15 Kuramoto-cho, Tokushima, 770-8503, Japan
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- Department of Respiratory Medicine and Rheumatology, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Tokushima University, 3-18-15 Kuramoto-cho, Tokushima, 770-8503, Japan
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- Department of Respiratory Medicine and Rheumatology, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Tokushima University, 3-18-15 Kuramoto-cho, Tokushima, 770-8503, Japan
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- Department of Respiratory Medicine and Rheumatology, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Tokushima University, 3-18-15 Kuramoto-cho, Tokushima, 770-8503, Japan
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- Department of Respiratory Medicine and Rheumatology, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Tokushima University, 3-18-15 Kuramoto-cho, Tokushima, 770-8503, Japan
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- Department of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Tokushima University, Tokushima, Japan
- Department of Pharmacy, Okayama University Hospital, Okayama, Japan
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- Department of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Tokushima University, Tokushima, Japan
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- Department of Respiratory Medicine and Rheumatology, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Tokushima University, 3-18-15 Kuramoto-cho, Tokushima, 770-8503, Japan.
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Hosseini-Gerami L, Higgins IA, Collier DA, Laing E, Evans D, Broughton H, Bender A. Benchmarking causal reasoning algorithms for gene expression-based compound mechanism of action analysis. BMC Bioinformatics 2023; 24:154. [PMID: 37072707 PMCID: PMC10111792 DOI: 10.1186/s12859-023-05277-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/07/2022] [Accepted: 04/06/2023] [Indexed: 04/20/2023] Open
Abstract
BACKGROUND Elucidating compound mechanism of action (MoA) is beneficial to drug discovery, but in practice often represents a significant challenge. Causal Reasoning approaches aim to address this situation by inferring dysregulated signalling proteins using transcriptomics data and biological networks; however, a comprehensive benchmarking of such approaches has not yet been reported. Here we benchmarked four causal reasoning algorithms (SigNet, CausalR, CausalR ScanR and CARNIVAL) with four networks (the smaller Omnipath network vs. 3 larger MetaBase™ networks), using LINCS L1000 and CMap microarray data, and assessed to what extent each factor dictated the successful recovery of direct targets and compound-associated signalling pathways in a benchmark dataset comprising 269 compounds. We additionally examined impact on performance in terms of the functions and roles of protein targets and their connectivity bias in the prior knowledge networks. RESULTS According to statistical analysis (negative binomial model), the combination of algorithm and network most significantly dictated the performance of causal reasoning algorithms, with the SigNet recovering the greatest number of direct targets. With respect to the recovery of signalling pathways, CARNIVAL with the Omnipath network was able to recover the most informative pathways containing compound targets, based on the Reactome pathway hierarchy. Additionally, CARNIVAL, SigNet and CausalR ScanR all outperformed baseline gene expression pathway enrichment results. We found no significant difference in performance between L1000 data or microarray data, even when limited to just 978 'landmark' genes. Notably, all causal reasoning algorithms also outperformed pathway recovery based on input DEGs, despite these often being used for pathway enrichment. Causal reasoning methods performance was somewhat correlated with connectivity and biological role of the targets. CONCLUSIONS Overall, we conclude that causal reasoning performs well at recovering signalling proteins related to compound MoA upstream from gene expression changes by leveraging prior knowledge networks, and that the choice of network and algorithm has a profound impact on the performance of causal reasoning algorithms. Based on the analyses presented here this is true for both microarray-based gene expression data as well as those based on the L1000 platform.
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- Layla Hosseini-Gerami
- Department of Chemistry, Centre for Molecular Informatics, Cambridge, UK
- Ignota Labs, London, UK
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- Eli Lilly and Company, Bracknell, UK
- Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, IoPPN, Kings's College London, London, UK
- Genetic and Genomic Consulting Ltd, Farnham, UK
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- Eli Lilly and Company, Bracknell, UK
- GSK, Stevenage, UK
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- Eli Lilly and Company, Bracknell, UK
- DeepMind, London, UK
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- Centre de Investigación, Eli Lilly and Company, Alcobendas, Spain
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- Department of Chemistry, Centre for Molecular Informatics, Cambridge, UK.
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Zhu Y, Yang H, Han L, Mervin LH, Hosseini-Gerami L, Li P, Wright P, Trapotsi MA, Liu K, Fan TP, Bender A. In silico prediction and biological assessment of novel angiogenesis modulators from traditional Chinese medicine. Front Pharmacol 2023; 14:1116081. [PMID: 36817116 PMCID: PMC9937659 DOI: 10.3389/fphar.2023.1116081] [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: 12/05/2022] [Accepted: 01/20/2023] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
Abstract
Uncontrolled angiogenesis is a common denominator underlying many deadly and debilitating diseases such as myocardial infarction, chronic wounds, cancer, and age-related macular degeneration. As the current range of FDA-approved angiogenesis-based medicines are far from meeting clinical demands, the vast reserve of natural products from traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) offers an alternative source for developing pro-angiogenic or anti-angiogenic modulators. Here, we investigated 100 traditional Chinese medicine-derived individual metabolites which had reported gene expression in MCF7 cell lines in the Gene Expression Omnibus (GSE85871). We extracted literature angiogenic activities for 51 individual metabolites, and subsequently analysed their predicted targets and differentially expressed genes to understand their mechanisms of action. The angiogenesis phenotype was used to generate decision trees for rationalising the poly-pharmacology of known angiogenesis modulators such as ferulic acid and curculigoside and validated by an in vitro endothelial tube formation assay and a zebrafish model of angiogenesis. Moreover, using an in silico model we prospectively examined the angiogenesis-modulating activities of the remaining 49 individual metabolites. In vitro, tetrahydropalmatine and 1 beta-hydroxyalantolactone stimulated, while cinobufotalin and isoalantolactone inhibited endothelial tube formation. In vivo, ginsenosides Rb3 and Rc, 1 beta-hydroxyalantolactone and surprisingly cinobufotalin, restored angiogenesis against PTK787-induced impairment in zebrafish. In the absence of PTK787, deoxycholic acid and ursodeoxycholic acid did not affect angiogenesis. Despite some limitations, these results suggest further refinements of in silico prediction combined with biological assessment will be a valuable platform for accelerating the research and development of natural products from traditional Chinese medicine and understanding their mechanisms of action, and also for other traditional medicines for the prevention and treatment of angiogenic diseases.
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- Yingli Zhu
- Department of Clinical Chinese Pharmacy, School of Chinese Material Medica, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing, China,Department of Chemistry, Center for Molecular Science Informatics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom,Department of Pharmacology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Department of Chemistry, Center for Molecular Science Informatics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Engineering Research Center of Zebrafish Models for Human Diseases and Drug Screening of Shandong Province, Biology Institute, Qilu University of Technology, Shandong Academy of Sciences, Jinan, China,School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Science, Shandong First Medical University, Shandong Academy of Medical Sciences, Jinan, China
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- Department of Chemistry, Center for Molecular Science Informatics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Department of Chemistry, Center for Molecular Science Informatics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Engineering Research Center of Zebrafish Models for Human Diseases and Drug Screening of Shandong Province, Biology Institute, Qilu University of Technology, Shandong Academy of Sciences, Jinan, China
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- Department of Chemistry, Center for Molecular Science Informatics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Department of Chemistry, Center for Molecular Science Informatics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Engineering Research Center of Zebrafish Models for Human Diseases and Drug Screening of Shandong Province, Biology Institute, Qilu University of Technology, Shandong Academy of Sciences, Jinan, China
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- Department of Pharmacology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom,*Correspondence: Tai-Ping Fan, ; Andreas Bender,
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- Department of Chemistry, Center for Molecular Science Informatics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom,*Correspondence: Tai-Ping Fan, ; Andreas Bender,
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Oku Y, Madia F, Lau P, Paparella M, McGovern T, Luijten M, Jacobs MN. Analyses of Transcriptomics Cell Signalling for Pre-Screening Applications in the Integrated Approach for Testing and Assessment of Non-Genotoxic Carcinogens. Int J Mol Sci 2022; 23:ijms232112718. [PMID: 36361516 PMCID: PMC9659232 DOI: 10.3390/ijms232112718] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/29/2022] [Revised: 10/18/2022] [Accepted: 10/18/2022] [Indexed: 12/03/2022] Open
Abstract
With recent rapid advancement of methodological tools, mechanistic understanding of biological processes leading to carcinogenesis is expanding. New approach methodologies such as transcriptomics can inform on non-genotoxic mechanisms of chemical carcinogens and can be developed for regulatory applications. The Organisation for the Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) expert group developing an Integrated Approach to the Testing and Assessment (IATA) of Non-Genotoxic Carcinogens (NGTxC) is reviewing the possible assays to be integrated therein. In this context, we review the application of transcriptomics approaches suitable for pre-screening gene expression changes associated with phenotypic alterations that underlie the carcinogenic processes for subsequent prioritisation of downstream test methods appropriate to specific key events of non-genotoxic carcinogenesis. Using case studies, we evaluate the potential of gene expression analyses especially in relation to breast cancer, to identify the most relevant approaches that could be utilised as (pre-) screening tools, for example Gene Set Enrichment Analysis (GSEA). We also consider how to address the challenges to integrate gene panels and transcriptomic assays into the IATA, highlighting the pivotal omics markers identified for assay measurement in the IATA key events of inflammation, immune response, mitogenic signalling and cell injury.
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- Yusuke Oku
- The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), 2 Rue Andre Pascal, 75016 Paris, France
- Correspondence: (Y.O.); (M.N.J.)
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- European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC), Via Enrico Fermi, 2749, 21027 Ispra, Italy
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- Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, 16163 Genova, Italy
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- Institute of Medical Biochemistry, Biocenter, Medical University of Innsbruck, Innrain 80, 6020 Innbruck, Austria
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- US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), 10903 New Hampshire Avenue, Silver Spring, MD 20901, USA
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- Centre for Health Protection, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Antonie van Leeuwenhoeklaan 9, Bilthoven, 3721 MA Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Centre for Radiation, Chemical and Environmental Hazard (CRCE), Public Health England (PHE), Chilton OX11 0RQ, Oxfordshire, UK
- Correspondence: (Y.O.); (M.N.J.)
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Pilarczyk M, Fazel-Najafabadi M, Kouril M, Shamsaei B, Vasiliauskas J, Niu W, Mahi N, Zhang L, Clark NA, Ren Y, White S, Karim R, Xu H, Biesiada J, Bennett MF, Davidson SE, Reichard JF, Roberts K, Stathias V, Koleti A, Vidovic D, Clarke DJB, Schürer SC, Ma'ayan A, Meller J, Medvedovic M. Connecting omics signatures and revealing biological mechanisms with iLINCS. Nat Commun 2022; 13:4678. [PMID: 35945222 PMCID: PMC9362980 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-32205-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/18/2020] [Accepted: 07/21/2022] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
Abstract
There are only a few platforms that integrate multiple omics data types, bioinformatics tools, and interfaces for integrative analyses and visualization that do not require programming skills. Here we present iLINCS ( http://ilincs.org ), an integrative web-based platform for analysis of omics data and signatures of cellular perturbations. The platform facilitates mining and re-analysis of the large collection of omics datasets (>34,000), pre-computed signatures (>200,000), and their connections, as well as the analysis of user-submitted omics signatures of diseases and cellular perturbations. iLINCS analysis workflows integrate vast omics data resources and a range of analytics and interactive visualization tools into a comprehensive platform for analysis of omics signatures. iLINCS user-friendly interfaces enable execution of sophisticated analyses of omics signatures, mechanism of action analysis, and signature-driven drug repositioning. We illustrate the utility of iLINCS with three use cases involving analysis of cancer proteogenomic signatures, COVID 19 transcriptomic signatures and mTOR signaling.
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- Marcin Pilarczyk
- Department of Environmental and Public Health Sciences, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, 45220, USA
- LINCS Data Coordination and Integration Center (DCIC), Cincinnati, USA
- LINCS Data Coordination and Integration Center (DCIC), New York, USA
- LINCS Data Coordination and Integration Center (DCIC), Miami, USA
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- Department of Environmental and Public Health Sciences, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, 45220, USA
- LINCS Data Coordination and Integration Center (DCIC), Cincinnati, USA
- LINCS Data Coordination and Integration Center (DCIC), New York, USA
- LINCS Data Coordination and Integration Center (DCIC), Miami, USA
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- LINCS Data Coordination and Integration Center (DCIC), Cincinnati, USA
- LINCS Data Coordination and Integration Center (DCIC), New York, USA
- LINCS Data Coordination and Integration Center (DCIC), Miami, USA
- Division of Biomedical Informatics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, 45229, USA
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- Department of Environmental and Public Health Sciences, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, 45220, USA
- LINCS Data Coordination and Integration Center (DCIC), Cincinnati, USA
- LINCS Data Coordination and Integration Center (DCIC), New York, USA
- LINCS Data Coordination and Integration Center (DCIC), Miami, USA
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- Department of Environmental and Public Health Sciences, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, 45220, USA
- LINCS Data Coordination and Integration Center (DCIC), Cincinnati, USA
- LINCS Data Coordination and Integration Center (DCIC), New York, USA
- LINCS Data Coordination and Integration Center (DCIC), Miami, USA
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- Department of Environmental and Public Health Sciences, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, 45220, USA
- LINCS Data Coordination and Integration Center (DCIC), Cincinnati, USA
- LINCS Data Coordination and Integration Center (DCIC), New York, USA
- LINCS Data Coordination and Integration Center (DCIC), Miami, USA
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- Department of Environmental and Public Health Sciences, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, 45220, USA
- LINCS Data Coordination and Integration Center (DCIC), Cincinnati, USA
- LINCS Data Coordination and Integration Center (DCIC), New York, USA
- LINCS Data Coordination and Integration Center (DCIC), Miami, USA
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- Department of Environmental and Public Health Sciences, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, 45220, USA
- LINCS Data Coordination and Integration Center (DCIC), Cincinnati, USA
- LINCS Data Coordination and Integration Center (DCIC), New York, USA
- LINCS Data Coordination and Integration Center (DCIC), Miami, USA
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- Department of Environmental and Public Health Sciences, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, 45220, USA
- LINCS Data Coordination and Integration Center (DCIC), Cincinnati, USA
- LINCS Data Coordination and Integration Center (DCIC), New York, USA
- LINCS Data Coordination and Integration Center (DCIC), Miami, USA
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- Department of Environmental and Public Health Sciences, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, 45220, USA
- LINCS Data Coordination and Integration Center (DCIC), Cincinnati, USA
- LINCS Data Coordination and Integration Center (DCIC), New York, USA
- LINCS Data Coordination and Integration Center (DCIC), Miami, USA
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- Department of Environmental and Public Health Sciences, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, 45220, USA
- LINCS Data Coordination and Integration Center (DCIC), Cincinnati, USA
- LINCS Data Coordination and Integration Center (DCIC), New York, USA
- LINCS Data Coordination and Integration Center (DCIC), Miami, USA
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- Department of Environmental and Public Health Sciences, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, 45220, USA
- Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, 45220, USA
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- Department of Environmental and Public Health Sciences, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, 45220, USA
- LINCS Data Coordination and Integration Center (DCIC), Cincinnati, USA
- LINCS Data Coordination and Integration Center (DCIC), New York, USA
- LINCS Data Coordination and Integration Center (DCIC), Miami, USA
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- Department of Environmental and Public Health Sciences, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, 45220, USA
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- Department of Environmental and Public Health Sciences, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, 45220, USA
- LINCS Data Coordination and Integration Center (DCIC), Cincinnati, USA
- LINCS Data Coordination and Integration Center (DCIC), New York, USA
- LINCS Data Coordination and Integration Center (DCIC), Miami, USA
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- Department of Environmental and Public Health Sciences, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, 45220, USA
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- Department of Environmental and Public Health Sciences, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, 45220, USA
- LINCS Data Coordination and Integration Center (DCIC), Cincinnati, USA
- LINCS Data Coordination and Integration Center (DCIC), New York, USA
- LINCS Data Coordination and Integration Center (DCIC), Miami, USA
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- Department of Environmental and Public Health Sciences, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, 45220, USA
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- LINCS Data Coordination and Integration Center (DCIC), Cincinnati, USA
- LINCS Data Coordination and Integration Center (DCIC), New York, USA
- LINCS Data Coordination and Integration Center (DCIC), Miami, USA
- Department of Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology, Miller School of Medicine and Center for Computational Science, University of Miami, Miami, FL 33136, USA
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- LINCS Data Coordination and Integration Center (DCIC), Cincinnati, USA
- LINCS Data Coordination and Integration Center (DCIC), New York, USA
- LINCS Data Coordination and Integration Center (DCIC), Miami, USA
- Department of Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology, Miller School of Medicine and Center for Computational Science, University of Miami, Miami, FL 33136, USA
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- LINCS Data Coordination and Integration Center (DCIC), Cincinnati, USA
- LINCS Data Coordination and Integration Center (DCIC), New York, USA
- LINCS Data Coordination and Integration Center (DCIC), Miami, USA
- Department of Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology, Miller School of Medicine and Center for Computational Science, University of Miami, Miami, FL 33136, USA
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- LINCS Data Coordination and Integration Center (DCIC), Cincinnati, USA
- LINCS Data Coordination and Integration Center (DCIC), New York, USA
- LINCS Data Coordination and Integration Center (DCIC), Miami, USA
- Department of Pharmacological Sciences, Mount Sinai Center for Bioinformatics, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, 10029, USA
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- LINCS Data Coordination and Integration Center (DCIC), Cincinnati, USA
- LINCS Data Coordination and Integration Center (DCIC), New York, USA
- LINCS Data Coordination and Integration Center (DCIC), Miami, USA
- Department of Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology, Miller School of Medicine and Center for Computational Science, University of Miami, Miami, FL 33136, USA
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- LINCS Data Coordination and Integration Center (DCIC), Cincinnati, USA
- LINCS Data Coordination and Integration Center (DCIC), New York, USA
- LINCS Data Coordination and Integration Center (DCIC), Miami, USA
- Department of Pharmacological Sciences, Mount Sinai Center for Bioinformatics, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, 10029, USA
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- Department of Environmental and Public Health Sciences, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, 45220, USA
- LINCS Data Coordination and Integration Center (DCIC), Cincinnati, USA
- LINCS Data Coordination and Integration Center (DCIC), New York, USA
- LINCS Data Coordination and Integration Center (DCIC), Miami, USA
- Division of Biomedical Informatics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, 45229, USA
- Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, 45220, USA
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- Department of Environmental and Public Health Sciences, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, 45220, USA.
- LINCS Data Coordination and Integration Center (DCIC), Cincinnati, USA.
- LINCS Data Coordination and Integration Center (DCIC), New York, USA.
- LINCS Data Coordination and Integration Center (DCIC), Miami, USA.
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Pham TH, Qiu Y, Liu J, Zimmer S, O’Neill E, Xie L, Zhang P. Chemical-induced gene expression ranking and its application to pancreatic cancer drug repurposing. PATTERNS 2022; 3:100441. [PMID: 35465231 PMCID: PMC9023899 DOI: 10.1016/j.patter.2022.100441] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/02/2021] [Revised: 09/13/2021] [Accepted: 01/12/2022] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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Chemical-induced gene expression profiles provide critical information of chemicals in a biological system, thus offering new opportunities for drug discovery. Despite their success, large-scale analysis leveraging gene expressions is limited by time and cost. Although several methods for predicting gene expressions were proposed, they only focused on imputation and classification settings, which have limited applications to real-world scenarios of drug discovery. Therefore, a chemical-induced gene expression ranking (CIGER) framework is proposed to target a more realistic but more challenging setting in which overall rankings in gene expression profiles induced by de novo chemicals are predicted. The experimental results show that CIGER significantly outperforms existing methods in both ranking and classification metrics. Furthermore, a drug screening pipeline based on CIGER is proposed to identify potential treatments of drug-resistant pancreatic cancer. Our predictions have been validated by experiments, thereby showing the effectiveness of CIGER for phenotypic compound screening of precision medicine. A new deep-learning method (CIGER) for chemical-induced gene expression ranking CIGER can predict gene expression for de novo chemicals from chemical structures We discovered drugs for the treatment of drug-resistant pancreatic cancer
In recent years, a phenotype-based drug discovery approach using chemical-induced gene expressions has shown to be effective in drug discovery and precision medicine. However, it is not feasible to experimentally determine chemical-induced gene expressions for all available chemicals of interest, thereby hindering the application of gene expression-based compound screening on a large scale. Thus, it is crucial to design a computational approach that can generate gene expression information for any chemicals. We proposed a new, deep-learning framework named chemical-induced gene expression ranking (CIGER) to predict a landmark gene expression profile (i.e., gene ranking) induced by de novo chemicals based on their chemical structures. Leveraging CIGER, we predicted and experimentally validated that several existing drugs can increase the therapeutic response on drug-resistant pancreatic cancer. Our results demonstrated the effectiveness of CIGER for precision drug discovery in practice.
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- Thai-Hoang Pham
- Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
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- Ph.D. Program in Biology, The Graduate Center, The City University of New York, New York, NY 10016, USA
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- Department of Oncology, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7DQ, UK
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- Department of Oncology, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7DQ, UK
- EpiCombi.AI Therapeutics, Oxford OX7 3SB, UK
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- Ph.D. Program in Biology, The Graduate Center, The City University of New York, New York, NY 10016, USA
- Department of Computer Science, Hunter College, The City University of New York, New York, NY 10065, USA
- Ph.D. Program in Computer Science and Biochemistry, The Graduate Center, The City University of New York, New York, NY 10016, USA
- Helen and Robert Appel Alzheimer’s Disease Research Institute, Feil Family Brain & Mind Research Institute, Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University, New York, NY 10021, USA
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- Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
- Department of Biomedical Informatics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
- Translational Data Analytics Institute, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
- Corresponding author
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Barazandeh M, Kriti D, Nislow C, Giaever G. The cellular response to drug perturbation is limited: comparison of large-scale chemogenomic fitness signatures. BMC Genomics 2022; 23:197. [PMID: 35277135 PMCID: PMC8915488 DOI: 10.1186/s12864-022-08395-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/04/2021] [Accepted: 02/17/2022] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
Abstract
Background Chemogenomic profiling is a powerful approach for understanding the genome-wide cellular response to small molecules. First developed in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, chemogenomic screens provide direct, unbiased identification of drug target candidates as well as genes required for drug resistance. While many laboratories have performed chemogenomic fitness assays, few have been assessed for reproducibility and accuracy. Here we analyze the two largest independent yeast chemogenomic datasets comprising over 35 million gene-drug interactions and more than 6000 unique chemogenomic profiles; the first from our own academic laboratory (HIPLAB) and the second from the Novartis Institute of Biomedical Research (NIBR). Results Despite substantial differences in experimental and analytical pipelines, the combined datasets revealed robust chemogenomic response signatures, characterized by gene signatures, enrichment for biological processes and mechanisms of drug action. We previously reported that the cellular response to small molecules is limited and can be described by a network of 45 chemogenomic signatures. In the present study, we show that the majority of these signatures (66%) are also found in the companion dataset, providing further support for their biological relevance as conserved systems-level, small molecule response systems. Conclusions Our results demonstrate the robustness of chemogenomic fitness profiling in yeast, while offering guidelines for performing other high-dimensional comparisons including parallel CRISPR screens in mammalian cells. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12864-022-08395-x.
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Trapotsi MA, Hosseini-Gerami L, Bender A. Computational analyses of mechanism of action (MoA): data, methods and integration. RSC Chem Biol 2022; 3:170-200. [PMID: 35360890 PMCID: PMC8827085 DOI: 10.1039/d1cb00069a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/30/2021] [Accepted: 12/09/2021] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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The elucidation of a compound's Mechanism of Action (MoA) is a challenging task in the drug discovery process, but it is important in order to rationalise phenotypic findings and to anticipate potential side-effects. Bioinformatic approaches, advances in machine learning techniques and the increasing deposition of high-throughput data in public databases have significantly contributed to recent advances in the field, but it is not straightforward to decide which data and methods are most suitable to use in a given case. In this review, we focus on these methods and data and their applications in generating MoA hypotheses for subsequent experimental validation. We discuss compound-specific data such as -omics, cell morphology and bioactivity data, as well as commonly used supplementary prior knowledge such as network and pathway data, and provide information on databases where this data can be accessed. In terms of methodologies, we discuss both well-established methods (connectivity mapping, pathway enrichment) as well as more developing methods (neural networks and multi-omics integration). Finally, we review case studies where the MoA of a compound was successfully suggested from computational analysis by incorporating multiple data modalities and/or methodologies. Our aim for this review is to provide researchers with insights into the benefits and drawbacks of both the data and methods in terms of level of understanding, biases and interpretation - and to highlight future avenues of investigation which we foresee will improve the field of MoA elucidation, including greater public access to -omics data and methodologies which are capable of data integration.
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- Maria-Anna Trapotsi
- Centre for Molecular Informatics, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge UK
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- Centre for Molecular Informatics, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge UK
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- Centre for Molecular Informatics, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge UK
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Hassan S, Meenatchi R, Pachillu K, Bansal S, Brindangnanam P, Arockiaraj J, Kiran GS, Selvin J. Identification and characterization of the novel bioactive compounds from microalgae and cyanobacteria for pharmaceutical and nutraceutical applications. J Basic Microbiol 2022; 62:999-1029. [PMID: 35014044 DOI: 10.1002/jobm.202100477] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/04/2021] [Revised: 12/08/2021] [Accepted: 12/23/2021] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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Microalgae and cyanobacteria (blue-green algae) are used as food by humans. They have gained a lot of attention in recent years because of their potential applications in biotechnology. Microalgae and cyanobacteria are good sources of many valuable compounds, including important biologically active compounds with antiviral, antibacterial, antifungal, and anticancer activities. Under optimal growth condition and stress factors, algal biomass produce varieties of potential bioactive compounds. In the current review, bioactive compounds production and their remarkable applications such as pharmaceutical and nutraceutical applications along with processes involved in identification and characterization of the novel bioactive compounds are discussed. Comprehensive knowledge about the exploration, extraction, screening, and trading of bioactive products from microalgae and cyanobacteria and their pharmaceutical and other applications will open up new avenues for drug discovery and bioprospecting.
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- Saqib Hassan
- Department of Microbiology, School of Life Sciences, Pondicherry University, Puducherry, India.,Division of Non-Communicable Diseases, Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), New Delhi, India
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- SRM Research Institute, SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Kattankulathur, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.,Department of Biotechnology, College of Science and Humanities, SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Kattankulathur, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
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- Center for Development Research (ZEF), University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
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- Institute of Molecular Biology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Department of Bioinformatics, School of Life Sciences, Pondicherry University, Puducherry, India
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- Department of Biotechnology, College of Science and Humanities, SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Kattankulathur, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.,Foundation for Aquaculture Innovation and Technology Transfer (FAITT), Thoraipakkam, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
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- Department of Food Science and Technology, Pondicherry University, Puducherry, India
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- Department of Microbiology, School of Life Sciences, Pondicherry University, Puducherry, India
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AI-powered drug repurposing for developing COVID-19 treatments. REFERENCE MODULE IN BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES 2022. [PMCID: PMC8865759 DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-12-824010-6.00005-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Emerging infectious diseases are an ever-present threat to public health, and COVID-19 is the most recent example. There is an urgent need to develop a robust framework to combat the disease with safe and effective therapeutic options. Compared to de novo drug discovery, drug repurposing may offer a lower-cost and faster drug discovery paradigm to explore potential treatment options of existing drugs. This chapter elucidates the advantages of artificial intelligence (AI) in enhancing the drug repurposing process from a data science perspective, using COVID-19 as an example. First, we elaborate on how AI-powered drug repurposing benefits from the accumulated data and knowledge of COVID-19 natural history and pathogenesis. Second, we summarize the pros and cons of AI-powered drug repurposing strategies to facilitate fit-for-purpose selection. Finally, we outline challenges of AI-powered drug repurposing from a regulatory perspective and suggest some potential solutions. AI-powered drug purposing is promising for emerging treatments for COVID-19 infection. Accumulated biological data profiles facilitate AI-based drug repurposing efforts for development of COVID-19 therapies. The ‘fit-for-purpose selection of AI-powered drug repurposing strategies is key to uncovering hidden information among drugs, targets, and diseases. Efforts from different stakeholders boost the adoption of AI-powered drug repurposing in the regulatory setting.
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Kaitoh K, Yamanishi Y. TRIOMPHE: Transcriptome-Based Inference and Generation of Molecules with Desired Phenotypes by Machine Learning. J Chem Inf Model 2021; 61:4303-4320. [PMID: 34528432 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jcim.1c00967] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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One of the most challenging tasks in the drug-discovery process is the efficient identification of small molecules with desired phenotypes. In this study, we propose a novel computational method for omics-based de novo drug design, which we call TRIOMPHE (transcriptome-based inference and generation of molecules with desired phenotypes). We investigated the correlation between chemically induced transcriptome profiles (reflecting cellular responses to compound treatment) and genetically perturbed transcriptome profiles (reflecting cellular responses to gene knock-down or gene overexpression of target proteins) in terms of ligand-target interactions. Subsequently, we developed novel machine learning methods to generate the chemical structures of new molecules with desired transcriptome profiles in the framework of a variational autoencoder. The use of desired transcriptome profiles enables the automatic design of molecules that are likely to have bioactivities for target proteins of interest. We showed that our methods can generate chemically valid molecules that are likely to have biological activities on 10 target proteins; moreover, they can outperform previous methods that had the same objective. Our omics-based structure generator is expected to be useful for the de novo design of drugs for a variety of target proteins.
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- Kazuma Kaitoh
- Department of Bioscience and Bioinformatics, Faculty of Computer Science and Systems Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology, 680-4 Kawazu, Iizuka, Fukuoka 820-8502, Japan
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- Department of Bioscience and Bioinformatics, Faculty of Computer Science and Systems Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology, 680-4 Kawazu, Iizuka, Fukuoka 820-8502, Japan
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Evaluation of connectivity map shows limited reproducibility in drug repositioning. Sci Rep 2021; 11:17624. [PMID: 34475469 PMCID: PMC8413422 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-97005-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/16/2020] [Accepted: 08/19/2021] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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The Connectivity Map (CMap) is a popular resource designed for data-driven drug repositioning using a large transcriptomic compendium. However, evaluations of its performance are limited. We used two iterations of CMap (CMap 1 and 2) to assess their comparability and reliability. We queried CMap 2 with CMap 1-derived signatures, expecting CMap 2 would highly prioritize the queried compounds; the success rate was 17%. Analysis of previously published prioritizations yielded similar results. Low recall is caused by low differential expression (DE) reproducibility both between CMaps and within each CMap. DE strength was predictive of reproducibility, and is influenced by compound concentration and cell-line responsiveness. Reproducibility of CMap 2 sample expression levels was also lower than expected. We attempted to identify the "better" CMap by comparison with a third dataset, but they were mutually discordant. Our findings have implications for CMap usage and we suggest steps for investigators to limit false positives.
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van Heerden A, van Wyk R, Birkholtz LM. Machine Learning Uses Chemo-Transcriptomic Profiles to Stratify Antimalarial Compounds With Similar Mode of Action. Front Cell Infect Microbiol 2021; 11:688256. [PMID: 34268139 PMCID: PMC8277430 DOI: 10.3389/fcimb.2021.688256] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/30/2021] [Accepted: 06/04/2021] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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The rapid development of antimalarial resistance motivates the continued search for novel compounds with a mode of action (MoA) different to current antimalarials. Phenotypic screening has delivered thousands of promising hit compounds without prior knowledge of the compounds’ exact target or MoA. Whilst the latter is not initially required to progress a compound in a medicinal chemistry program, identifying the MoA early can accelerate hit prioritization, hit-to-lead optimization and preclinical combination studies in malaria research. The effects of drug treatment on a cell can be observed on systems level in changes in the transcriptome, proteome and metabolome. Machine learning (ML) algorithms are powerful tools able to deconvolute such complex chemically-induced transcriptional signatures to identify pathways on which a compound act and in this manner provide an indication of the MoA of a compound. In this study, we assessed different ML approaches for their ability to stratify antimalarial compounds based on varied chemically-induced transcriptional responses. We developed a rational gene selection approach that could identify predictive features for MoA to train and generate ML models. The best performing model could stratify compounds with similar MoA with a classification accuracy of 76.6 ± 6.4%. Moreover, only a limited set of 50 biomarkers was required to stratify compounds with similar MoA and define chemo-transcriptomic fingerprints for each compound. These fingerprints were unique for each compound and compounds with similar targets/MoA clustered together. The ML model was specific and sensitive enough to group new compounds into MoAs associated with their predicted target and was robust enough to be extended to also generate chemo-transcriptomic fingerprints for additional life cycle stages like immature gametocytes. This work therefore contributes a new strategy to rapidly, specifically and sensitively indicate the MoA of compounds based on chemo-transcriptomic fingerprints and holds promise to accelerate antimalarial drug discovery programs.
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- Ashleigh van Heerden
- Department of Biochemistry, Genetics and Microbiology, University of Pretoria, Hatfield, South Africa.,University of Pretoria Institute for Sustainable Malaria Control, University of Pretoria, Hatfield, South Africa
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- Department of Biochemistry, Genetics and Microbiology, University of Pretoria, Hatfield, South Africa.,University of Pretoria Institute for Sustainable Malaria Control, University of Pretoria, Hatfield, South Africa
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- Department of Biochemistry, Genetics and Microbiology, University of Pretoria, Hatfield, South Africa.,University of Pretoria Institute for Sustainable Malaria Control, University of Pretoria, Hatfield, South Africa
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Fujii A, Masuda T, Iwata M, Tobo T, Wakiyama H, Koike K, Kosai K, Nakano T, Kuramitsu S, Kitagawa A, Sato K, Kouyama Y, Shimizu D, Matsumoto Y, Utsunomiya T, Ohtsuka T, Yamanishi Y, Nakamura M, Mimori K. The novel driver gene ASAP2 is a potential druggable target in pancreatic cancer. Cancer Sci 2021; 112:1655-1668. [PMID: 33605496 PMCID: PMC8019229 DOI: 10.1111/cas.14858] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/20/2020] [Revised: 02/11/2021] [Accepted: 02/14/2021] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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Targeting mutated oncogenes is an effective approach for treating cancer. The 4 main driver genes of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) are KRAS, TP53, CDKN2A, and SMAD4, collectively called the "big 4" of PDAC, however they remain challenging therapeutic targets. In this study, ArfGAP with SH3 domain, ankyrin repeat and PH domain 2 (ASAP2), one of the ArfGAP family, was identified as a novel driver gene in PDAC. Clinical analysis with PDAC datasets showed that ASAP2 was overexpressed in PDAC cells based on increased DNA copy numbers, and high ASAP2 expression contributed to a poor prognosis in PDAC. The biological roles of ASAP2 were investigated using ASAP2-knockout PDAC cells generated with CRISPR-Cas9 technology or transfected PDAC cells. In vitro and in vivo analyses showed that ASAP2 promoted tumor growth by facilitating cell cycle progression through phosphorylation of epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR). A repositioned drug targeting the ASAP2 pathway was identified using a bioinformatics approach. The gene perturbation correlation method showed that niclosamide, an antiparasitic drug, suppressed PDAC growth by inhibition of ASAP2 expression. These data show that ASAP2 is a novel druggable driver gene that activates the EGFR signaling pathway. Furthermore, niclosamide was identified as a repositioned therapeutic agent for PDAC possibly targeting ASAP2.
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- Atsushi Fujii
- Department of SurgeryKyushu University Beppu HospitalOitaJapan
- Department of Surgery and OncologyGraduate School of Medical SciencesKyushu UniversityFukuokaJapan
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- Department of SurgeryKyushu University Beppu HospitalOitaJapan
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- Department of Bioscience and BioinformaticsFaculty of Computer Science and Systems EngineeringKyushu Institute of TechnologyFukuokaJapan
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- Department of Clinical Laboratory MedicineKyushu University Beppu HospitalOitaJapan
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- Department of SurgeryKyushu University Beppu HospitalOitaJapan
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- Department of SurgeryKyushu University Beppu HospitalOitaJapan
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- Department of SurgeryKyushu University Beppu HospitalOitaJapan
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- Department of SurgeryKyushu University Beppu HospitalOitaJapan
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- Department of SurgeryKyushu University Beppu HospitalOitaJapan
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- Department of SurgeryKyushu University Beppu HospitalOitaJapan
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- Department of Digestive Surgery, Breast and Thyroid SurgeryKagoshima UniversityKagoshimaJapan
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- Department of Bioscience and BioinformaticsFaculty of Computer Science and Systems EngineeringKyushu Institute of TechnologyFukuokaJapan
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- Department of Surgery and OncologyGraduate School of Medical SciencesKyushu UniversityFukuokaJapan
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- Department of SurgeryKyushu University Beppu HospitalOitaJapan
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Ren Y, Sivaganesan S, Clark NA, Zhang L, Biesiada J, Niu W, Plas DR, Medvedovic M. Predicting mechanism of action of cellular perturbations with pathway activity signatures. Bioinformatics 2021; 36:4781-4788. [PMID: 32653926 DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btaa590] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/05/2019] [Revised: 06/15/2020] [Accepted: 07/03/2020] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
Abstract
MOTIVATION Misregulation of signaling pathway activity is etiologic for many human diseases, and modulating activity of signaling pathways is often the preferred therapeutic strategy. Understanding the mechanism of action (MOA) of bioactive chemicals in terms of targeted signaling pathways is the essential first step in evaluating their therapeutic potential. Changes in signaling pathway activity are often not reflected in changes in expression of pathway genes which makes MOA inferences from transcriptional signatures (TSeses) a difficult problem. RESULTS We developed a new computational method for implicating pathway targets of bioactive chemicals and other cellular perturbations by integrated analysis of pathway network topology, the Library of Integrated Network-based Cellular Signature TSes of genetic perturbations of pathway genes and the TS of the perturbation. Our methodology accurately predicts signaling pathways targeted by the perturbation when current pathway analysis approaches utilizing only the TS of the perturbation fail. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION Open source R package paslincs is available at https://github.com/uc-bd2k/paslincs. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
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- Yan Ren
- Division of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Department of Environmental Health, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45267-0056, USA
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- Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45221-0025, USA
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- Division of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Department of Environmental Health, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45267-0056, USA
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- Division of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Department of Environmental Health, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45267-0056, USA
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- Division of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Department of Environmental Health, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45267-0056, USA
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- Division of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Department of Environmental Health, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45267-0056, USA
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- Department of Cancer Biology, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH 45267-0521, USA
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- Division of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Department of Environmental Health, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45267-0056, USA
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Pham TH, Qiu Y, Zeng J, Xie L, Zhang P. A deep learning framework for high-throughput mechanism-driven phenotype compound screening and its application to COVID-19 drug repurposing. NAT MACH INTELL 2021; 3:247-257. [PMID: 33796820 PMCID: PMC8009091 DOI: 10.1038/s42256-020-00285-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 20.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/20/2020] [Accepted: 12/15/2020] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
Abstract
Phenotype-based compound screening has advantages over target-based drug discovery, but is unscalable and lacks understanding of mechanism. Chemical-induced gene expression profile provides a mechanistic signature of phenotypic response. However, the use of such data is limited by their sparseness, unreliability, and relatively low throughput. Few methods can perform phenotype-based de novo chemical compound screening. Here, we propose a mechanism-driven neural network-based method DeepCE, which utilizes graph neural network and multi-head attention mechanism to model chemical substructure-gene and gene-gene associations, for predicting the differential gene expression profile perturbed by de novo chemicals. Moreover, we propose a novel data augmentation method which extracts useful information from unreliable experiments in L1000 dataset. The experimental results show that DeepCE achieves superior performances to state-of-the-art methods. The effectiveness of gene expression profiles generated from DeepCE is further supported by comparing them with observed data for downstream classification tasks. To demonstrate the value of DeepCE, we apply it to drug repurposing of COVID-19, and generate novel lead compounds consistent with clinical evidence. Thus, DeepCE provides a potentially powerful framework for robust predictive modeling by utilizing noisy omics data and screening novel chemicals for the modulation of a systemic response to disease.
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- Thai-Hoang Pham
- Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, 43210, USA
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- Ph.D. Program in Biology, The Graduate Center, The City University of New York, New York, 10016, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Informatics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, 43210, USA
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- Ph.D. Program in Biology, The Graduate Center, The City University of New York, New York, 10016, USA
- Department of Computer Science, Hunter College, The City University of New York, New York, 10065, USA
- Ph.D. Program in Computer Science and Biochemistry, The Graduate Center, The City University of New York, New York, 10016, USA
- Helen and Robert Appel Alzheimer’s Disease Research Institute, Feil Family Brain & Mind Research Institute, Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University, New York, 10021, USA
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- Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, 43210, USA
- Department of Biomedical Informatics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, 43210, USA
- Translational Data Analytics institute, The Ohio State University, Columbus, 43210, USA
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Fotis C, Meimetis N, Sardis A, Alexopoulos LG. DeepSIBA: chemical structure-based inference of biological alterations using deep learning. Mol Omics 2020; 17:108-120. [PMID: 33188379 DOI: 10.1039/d0mo00129e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Predicting whether a chemical structure leads to a desired or adverse biological effect can have a significant impact for in silico drug discovery. In this study, we developed a deep learning model where compound structures are represented as graphs and then linked to their biological footprint. To make this complex problem computationally tractable, compound differences were mapped to biological effect alterations using Siamese Graph Convolutional Neural Networks. The proposed model was able to encode molecular graph pairs and identify structurally dissimilar compounds that affect similar biological processes with high precision. Additionally, by utilizing deep ensembles to estimate uncertainty, we were able to provide reliable and accurate predictions for chemical structures that are very different from the ones used during training. Finally, we present a novel inference approach, where the trained models are used to estimate the signaling pathway signature of a compound perturbation, using only its chemical structure as input, and subsequently identify which substructures influenced the predicted pathways. As a use case, this approach was used to infer important substructures and affected signaling pathways of FDA-approved anticancer drugs.
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- C Fotis
- Biomedical Systems Laboratory, National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece.
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Xue Y, Ding MQ, Lu X. Learning to encode cellular responses to systematic perturbations with deep generative models. NPJ Syst Biol Appl 2020; 6:35. [PMID: 33159077 PMCID: PMC7648057 DOI: 10.1038/s41540-020-00158-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/16/2020] [Accepted: 10/07/2020] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Cellular signaling systems play a vital role in maintaining homeostasis when a cell is exposed to different perturbations. Components of the systems are organized as hierarchical networks, and perturbing different components often leads to transcriptomic profiles that exhibit compositional statistical patterns. Mining such patterns to investigate how cellular signals are encoded is an important problem in systems biology, where artificial intelligence techniques can be of great assistance. Here, we investigated the capability of deep generative models (DGMs) to modeling signaling systems and learn representations of cellular states underlying transcriptomic responses to diverse perturbations. Specifically, we show that the variational autoencoder and the supervised vector-quantized variational autoencoder can accurately regenerate gene expression data in response to perturbagen treatments. The models can learn representations that reveal the relationships between different classes of perturbagens and enable mappings between drugs and their target genes. In summary, DGMs can adequately learn and depict how cellular signals are encoded. The resulting representations have broad applications, demonstrating the power of artificial intelligence in systems biology and precision medicine.
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- Yifan Xue
- Department of Biomedical Informatics, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 15206, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Informatics, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 15206, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Informatics, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 15206, USA.
- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Pharmacy, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 15206, USA.
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Pham TH, Qiu Y, Zeng J, Xie L, Zhang P. A deep learning framework for high-throughput mechanism-driven phenotype compound screening. BIORXIV : THE PREPRINT SERVER FOR BIOLOGY 2020. [PMID: 32743586 PMCID: PMC7386506 DOI: 10.1101/2020.07.19.211235] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Target-based high-throughput compound screening dominates conventional one-drug-one-gene drug discovery process. However, the readout from the chemical modulation of a single protein is poorly correlated with phenotypic response of organism, leading to high failure rate in drug development. Chemical-induced gene expression profile provides an attractive solution to phenotype-based screening. However, the use of such data is currently limited by their sparseness, unreliability, and relatively low throughput. Several methods have been proposed to impute missing values for gene expression datasets. However, few existing methods can perform de novo chemical compound screening. In this study, we propose a mechanism-driven neural network-based method named DeepCE (Deep Chemical Expression) which utilizes graph convolutional neural network to learn chemical representation and multi-head attention mechanism to model chemical substructure-gene and gene-gene feature associations. In addition, we propose a novel data augmentation method which extracts useful information from unreliable experiments in L1000 dataset. The experimental results show that DeepCE achieves the superior performances not only in de novo chemical setting but also in traditional imputation setting compared to state-of-the-art baselines for the prediction of chemical-induced gene expression. We further verify the effectiveness of gene expression profiles generated from DeepCE by comparing them with gene expression profiles in L1000 dataset for downstream classification tasks including drug-target and disease predictions. To demonstrate the value of DeepCE, we apply it to patient-specific drug repurposing of COVID-19 for the first time, and generate novel lead compounds consistent with clinical evidences. Thus, DeepCE provides a potentially powerful framework for robust predictive modeling by utilizing noisy omics data as well as screening novel chemicals for the modulation of systemic response to disease.
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- Thai-Hoang Pham
- The Ohio State University, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Columbus, 43210, USA
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- The City University of New York, Ph.D. Program in Biology, The Graduate Center, New York, 10016, USA
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- The Ohio State University, Department of Biomedical Informatics, Columbus, 43210, USA
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- The City University of New York, Ph.D. Program in Biology, The Graduate Center, New York, 10016, USA.,Hunter College, The City University of New York, Department of Computer Science, New York, 10065, USA.,The City University of New York, Ph.D. Program in Computer Science and Biochemistry, The Graduate Center, New York, 10016, USA.,Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University, Helen and Robert Appel Alzheimer's Disease Research Institute, Feil Family Brain Mind Research Institute, New York, 10021, USA
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- The Ohio State University, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Columbus, 43210, USA.,The Ohio State University, Department of Biomedical Informatics, Columbus, 43210, USA
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Masuda T, Tsuruda Y, Matsumoto Y, Uchida H, Nakayama KI, Mimori K. Drug repositioning in cancer: The current situation in Japan. Cancer Sci 2020; 111:1039-1046. [PMID: 31957175 PMCID: PMC7156828 DOI: 10.1111/cas.14318] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/06/2019] [Revised: 01/03/2020] [Accepted: 01/09/2020] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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Cancer is a leading cause of death worldwide, and the incidence continues to increase. Despite major research aimed at discovering and developing novel and effective anticancer drugs, oncology drug development is a lengthy and costly process, with high attrition rates. Drug repositioning (DR, also referred to as drug repurposing), the process of finding new uses for approved noncancer drugs, has been gaining popularity in the past decade. DR has become a powerful alternative strategy for discovering and developing novel anticancer drug candidates from the existing approved drug space. Indeed, the availability of several large established libraries of clinical drugs and rapid advances in disease biology, genomics/transcriptomics/proteomics and bioinformatics has accelerated the pace of activity‐based, literature‐based and in silico DR, thereby improving safety and reducing costs. However, DR still faces financial obstacles in clinical trials, which could limit its practical use in the clinic. Here, we provide a brief review of DR in cancer and discuss difficulties in the development of DR for clinical use. Furthermore, we introduce some promising DR candidates for anticancer therapy in Japan.
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- Takaaki Masuda
- Department of Surgery, Kyushu University Beppu Hospital, Beppu, Japan
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- Department of Surgery, Kyushu University Beppu Hospital, Beppu, Japan
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- Department of Surgery, Kyushu University Beppu Hospital, Beppu, Japan
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Medical Institute of Bioregulation, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
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- Department of Surgery, Kyushu University Beppu Hospital, Beppu, Japan
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Méndez-Lucio O, Baillif B, Clevert DA, Rouquié D, Wichard J. De novo generation of hit-like molecules from gene expression signatures using artificial intelligence. Nat Commun 2020; 11:10. [PMID: 31900408 PMCID: PMC6941972 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-13807-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 176] [Impact Index Per Article: 44.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/14/2018] [Accepted: 11/27/2019] [Indexed: 01/20/2023] Open
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Finding new molecules with a desired biological activity is an extremely difficult task. In this context, artificial intelligence and generative models have been used for molecular de novo design and compound optimization. Herein, we report a generative model that bridges systems biology and molecular design, conditioning a generative adversarial network with transcriptomic data. By doing so, we can automatically design molecules that have a high probability to induce a desired transcriptomic profile. As long as the gene expression signature of the desired state is provided, this model is able to design active-like molecules for desired targets without any previous target annotation of the training compounds. Molecules designed by this model are more similar to active compounds than the ones identified by similarity of gene expression signatures. Overall, this method represents an alternative approach to bridge chemistry and biology in the long and difficult road of drug discovery.
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- Oscar Méndez-Lucio
- Bayer SAS, Bayer Crop Science, 355 rue Dostoïevski, CS 90153, 06906, Valbonne, Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France.
- Bloomoon, 13 Avenue Albert Einstein, 69100, Villeurbanne, France.
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- Bayer SAS, Bayer Crop Science, 355 rue Dostoïevski, CS 90153, 06906, Valbonne, Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France
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- Department of Machine Learning Research, Bayer AG, 13353, Berlin, Germany
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- Bayer SAS, Bayer Crop Science, 355 rue Dostoïevski, CS 90153, 06906, Valbonne, Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France.
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- Department of Genetic Toxicology, Bayer AG, 13353, Berlin, Germany.
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In silico drug repositioning: from large-scale transcriptome data to therapeutics. Arch Pharm Res 2019; 42:879-889. [PMID: 31482491 DOI: 10.1007/s12272-019-01176-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/30/2019] [Accepted: 07/26/2019] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Drug repositioning is an attractive alternative to conventional drug development when new beneficial effects of old drugs are clinically validated because pharmacokinetic and safety profiles are generally already available. Since ~ 30% of drugs newly approved by the US food and drug administration (FDA) are developed through drug repositioning, identifying novel usage for existing drugs is an emerging strategy for developing disease treatments. With advances in next-generation sequencing technologies, available transcriptome data related to diseases have expanded rapidly. Harnessing these resources enables a better understanding of disease mechanisms and drug mode of action (MOA), and moves toward personalized pharmacotherapy. In this review, we briefly outline publicly available large-scale transcriptome databases and tools for drug repositioning. We also highlight recent approaches leading to the discovery of novel drug targets, drug response biomarkers, drug indications, and drug MOA.
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Comparison of Target Features for Predicting Drug-Target Interactions by Deep Neural Network Based on Large-Scale Drug-Induced Transcriptome Data. Pharmaceutics 2019; 11:pharmaceutics11080377. [PMID: 31382356 PMCID: PMC6723794 DOI: 10.3390/pharmaceutics11080377] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/12/2019] [Revised: 07/16/2019] [Accepted: 07/24/2019] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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Uncovering drug-target interactions (DTIs) is pivotal to understand drug mode-of-action (MoA), avoid adverse drug reaction (ADR), and seek opportunities for drug repositioning (DR). For decades, in silico predictions for DTIs have largely depended on structural information of both targets and compounds, e.g., docking or ligand-based virtual screening. Recently, the application of deep neural network (DNN) is opening a new path to uncover novel DTIs for thousands of targets. One important question is which features for targets are most relevant to DTI prediction. As an early attempt to answer this question, we objectively compared three canonical target features extracted from: (i) the expression profiles by gene knockdown (GEPs); (ii) the protein–protein interaction network (PPI network); and (iii) the pathway membership (PM) of a target gene. For drug features, the large-scale drug-induced transcriptome dataset, or the Library of Integrated Network-based Cellular Signatures (LINCS) L1000 dataset was used. All these features are closely related to protein function or drug MoA, of which utility is only sparsely investigated. In particular, few studies have compared the three types of target features in DNN-based DTI prediction under the same evaluation scheme. Among the three target features, the PM and the PPI network show similar performances superior to GEPs. DNN models based on both features consistently outperformed other machine learning methods such as naïve Bayes, random forest, or logistic regression.
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Iwata M, Yuan L, Zhao Q, Tabei Y, Berenger F, Sawada R, Akiyoshi S, Hamano M, Yamanishi Y. Predicting drug-induced transcriptome responses of a wide range of human cell lines by a novel tensor-train decomposition algorithm. Bioinformatics 2019; 35:i191-i199. [PMID: 31510663 PMCID: PMC6612872 DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btz313] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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MOTIVATION Genome-wide identification of the transcriptomic responses of human cell lines to drug treatments is a challenging issue in medical and pharmaceutical research. However, drug-induced gene expression profiles are largely unknown and unobserved for all combinations of drugs and human cell lines, which is a serious obstacle in practical applications. RESULTS Here, we developed a novel computational method to predict unknown parts of drug-induced gene expression profiles for various human cell lines and predict new drug therapeutic indications for a wide range of diseases. We proposed a tensor-train weighted optimization (TT-WOPT) algorithm to predict the potential values for unknown parts in tensor-structured gene expression data. Our results revealed that the proposed TT-WOPT algorithm can accurately reconstruct drug-induced gene expression data for a range of human cell lines in the Library of Integrated Network-based Cellular Signatures. The results also revealed that in comparison with the use of original gene expression profiles, the use of imputed gene expression profiles improved the accuracy of drug repositioning. We also performed a comprehensive prediction of drug indications for diseases with gene expression profiles, which suggested many potential drug indications that were not predicted by previous approaches. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
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- Michio Iwata
- Department of Bioscience and Bioinformatics, Faculty of Computer Science and Systems Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Iizuka, Fukuoka, Japan
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- Graduate School of Engineering, Saitama Institute of Technology, Fukaya, Saitama, Japan
- RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project, Chuo-ku, Tokyo, Japan
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- RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project, Chuo-ku, Tokyo, Japan
- School of Automation, Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
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- RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project, Chuo-ku, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Bioscience and Bioinformatics, Faculty of Computer Science and Systems Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Iizuka, Fukuoka, Japan
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- Department of Bioscience and Bioinformatics, Faculty of Computer Science and Systems Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Iizuka, Fukuoka, Japan
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- Medical Institute of Bioregulation, Kyushu University, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka, Japan
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- Department of Bioscience and Bioinformatics, Faculty of Computer Science and Systems Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Iizuka, Fukuoka, Japan
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- Department of Bioscience and Bioinformatics, Faculty of Computer Science and Systems Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Iizuka, Fukuoka, Japan
- PRESTO Japan Science and Technology Agency, Kawaguchi, Saitama, Japan
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Taguchi YH. Drug candidate identification based on gene expression of treated cells using tensor decomposition-based unsupervised feature extraction for large-scale data. BMC Bioinformatics 2019; 19:388. [PMID: 30717646 PMCID: PMC7394334 DOI: 10.1186/s12859-018-2395-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/23/2018] [Accepted: 09/25/2018] [Indexed: 02/08/2023] Open
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Background Although in silico drug discovery is necessary for drug development, two major strategies, a structure-based and ligand-based approach, have not been completely successful. Currently, the third approach, inference of drug candidates from gene expression profiles obtained from the cells treated with the compounds under study requires the use of a training dataset. Here, the purpose was to develop a new approach that does not require any pre-existing knowledge about the drug–protein interactions, but these interactions can be inferred by means of an integrated approach using gene expression profiles obtained from the cells treated with the analysed compounds and the existing data describing gene–gene interactions. Results In the present study, using tensor decomposition-based unsupervised feature extraction, which represents an extension of the recently proposed principal-component analysis-based feature extraction, gene sets and compounds with a significant dose-dependent activity were screened without any training datasets. Next, after these results were combined with the data showing perturbations in single-gene expression profiles, genes targeted by the analysed compounds were inferred. The set of target genes thus identified was shown to significantly overlap with known target genes of the compounds under study. Conclusions The method is specifically designed for large-scale datasets (including hundreds of treatments with compounds), not for conventional small-scale datasets. The obtained results indicate that two compounds that have not been extensively studied, WZ-3105 and CGP-60474, represent promising drug candidates targeting multiple cancers, including melanoma, adenocarcinoma, liver carcinoma, and breast, colon, and prostate cancers, which were analysed in this in silico study. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (10.1186/s12859-018-2395-8) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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- Y-H Taguchi
- Department of Physics, Chuo University, 1-13-27 Kasuga, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 112-8551, Japan.
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Olayan RS, Ashoor H, Bajic VB. DDR: efficient computational method to predict drug-target interactions using graph mining and machine learning approaches. Bioinformatics 2018; 34:1164-1173. [PMID: 29186331 PMCID: PMC5998943 DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btx731] [Citation(s) in RCA: 107] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/03/2017] [Accepted: 11/23/2017] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Motivation Finding computationally drug–target interactions (DTIs) is a convenient strategy to identify new DTIs at low cost with reasonable accuracy. However, the current DTI prediction methods suffer the high false positive prediction rate. Results We developed DDR, a novel method that improves the DTI prediction accuracy. DDR is based on the use of a heterogeneous graph that contains known DTIs with multiple similarities between drugs and multiple similarities between target proteins. DDR applies non-linear similarity fusion method to combine different similarities. Before fusion, DDR performs a pre-processing step where a subset of similarities is selected in a heuristic process to obtain an optimized combination of similarities. Then, DDR applies a random forest model using different graph-based features extracted from the DTI heterogeneous graph. Using 5-repeats of 10-fold cross-validation, three testing setups, and the weighted average of area under the precision-recall curve (AUPR) scores, we show that DDR significantly reduces the AUPR score error relative to the next best start-of-the-art method for predicting DTIs by 31% when the drugs are new, by 23% when targets are new and by 34% when the drugs and the targets are known but not all DTIs between them are not known. Using independent sources of evidence, we verify as correct 22 out of the top 25 DDR novel predictions. This suggests that DDR can be used as an efficient method to identify correct DTIs. Availability and implementation The data and code are provided at https://bitbucket.org/RSO24/ddr/. Supplementary information Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
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- Rawan S Olayan
- King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Computational Bioscience Research Center (CBRC), Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering (CEMSE) Division, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia
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- The Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine, Farmington, Connecticut 06032, USA
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- King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Computational Bioscience Research Center (CBRC), Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering (CEMSE) Division, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia
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Iwata M, Hirose L, Kohara H, Liao J, Sawada R, Akiyoshi S, Tani K, Yamanishi Y. Pathway-Based Drug Repositioning for Cancers: Computational Prediction and Experimental Validation. J Med Chem 2018; 61:9583-9595. [PMID: 30371064 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jmedchem.8b01044] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Developing drugs with anticancer activity and low toxic side-effects at low costs is a challenging issue for cancer chemotherapy. In this work, we propose to use molecular pathways as the therapeutic targets and develop a novel computational approach for drug repositioning for cancer treatment. We analyzed chemically induced gene expression data of 1112 drugs on 66 human cell lines and searched for drugs that inactivate pathways involved in the growth of cancer cells (cell cycle) and activate pathways that contribute to the death of cancer cells (e.g., apoptosis and p53 signaling). Finally, we performed a large-scale prediction of potential anticancer effects for all the drugs and experimentally validated the prediction results via three in vitro cellular assays that evaluate cell viability, cytotoxicity, and apoptosis induction. Using this strategy, we successfully identified several potential anticancer drugs. The proposed pathway-based method has great potential to improve drug repositioning research for cancer treatment.
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- Michio Iwata
- Department of Bioscience and Bioinformatics, Faculty of Computer Science and Systems Engineering , Kyushu Institute of Technology , 680-4 Kawazu , Iizuka , Fukuoka 820-8502 , Japan
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- Project Division of ALA Advanced Medical Research, The Institute of Medical Science , The University of Tokyo , 4-6-1 Shirokanedai , Minato-ku , Tokyo 108-8639 , Japan
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- Project Division of ALA Advanced Medical Research, The Institute of Medical Science , The University of Tokyo , 4-6-1 Shirokanedai , Minato-ku , Tokyo 108-8639 , Japan.,Division of Molecular and Clinical Genetics, Department of Molecular Genetics, Medical Institute of Bioregulation , Kyushu University , 3-1-1 Maidashi , Higashi-ku , Fukuoka, Fukuoka 812-8582 , Japan
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- Project Division of ALA Advanced Medical Research, The Institute of Medical Science , The University of Tokyo , 4-6-1 Shirokanedai , Minato-ku , Tokyo 108-8639 , Japan.,Division of Molecular and Clinical Genetics, Department of Molecular Genetics, Medical Institute of Bioregulation , Kyushu University , 3-1-1 Maidashi , Higashi-ku , Fukuoka, Fukuoka 812-8582 , Japan
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- Medical Institute of Bioregulation , Kyushu University , 3-1-1 Maidashi , Higashi-ku , Fukuoka, Fukuoka 812-8582 , Japan
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- Medical Institute of Bioregulation , Kyushu University , 3-1-1 Maidashi , Higashi-ku , Fukuoka, Fukuoka 812-8582 , Japan
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- Project Division of ALA Advanced Medical Research, The Institute of Medical Science , The University of Tokyo , 4-6-1 Shirokanedai , Minato-ku , Tokyo 108-8639 , Japan.,Division of Molecular Design, Research Center for Systems Immunology, Medical Institute of Bioregulation , Kyushu University , 3-1-1 Maidashi , Higashi-ku , Fukuoka, Fukuoka 812-8582 , Japan
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- Department of Bioscience and Bioinformatics, Faculty of Computer Science and Systems Engineering , Kyushu Institute of Technology , 680-4 Kawazu , Iizuka , Fukuoka 820-8502 , Japan.,PRESTO , Japan Science and Technology Agency , Kawaguchi , Saitama 332-0012 , Japan
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Keenan AB, Jenkins SL, Jagodnik KM, Koplev S, He E, Torre D, Wang Z, Dohlman AB, Silverstein MC, Lachmann A, Kuleshov MV, Ma'ayan A, Stathias V, Terryn R, Cooper D, Forlin M, Koleti A, Vidovic D, Chung C, Schürer SC, Vasiliauskas J, Pilarczyk M, Shamsaei B, Fazel M, Ren Y, Niu W, Clark NA, White S, Mahi N, Zhang L, Kouril M, Reichard JF, Sivaganesan S, Medvedovic M, Meller J, Koch RJ, Birtwistle MR, Iyengar R, Sobie EA, Azeloglu EU, Kaye J, Osterloh J, Haston K, Kalra J, Finkbiener S, Li J, Milani P, Adam M, Escalante-Chong R, Sachs K, Lenail A, Ramamoorthy D, Fraenkel E, Daigle G, Hussain U, Coye A, Rothstein J, Sareen D, Ornelas L, Banuelos M, Mandefro B, Ho R, Svendsen CN, Lim RG, Stocksdale J, Casale MS, Thompson TG, Wu J, Thompson LM, Dardov V, Venkatraman V, Matlock A, Van Eyk JE, Jaffe JD, Papanastasiou M, Subramanian A, Golub TR, Erickson SD, Fallahi-Sichani M, Hafner M, Gray NS, Lin JR, Mills CE, Muhlich JL, Niepel M, Shamu CE, Williams EH, Wrobel D, Sorger PK, Heiser LM, Gray JW, Korkola JE, Mills GB, LaBarge M, Feiler HS, Dane MA, Bucher E, Nederlof M, Sudar D, Gross S, Kilburn DF, Smith R, Devlin K, Margolis R, Derr L, Lee A, Pillai A. The Library of Integrated Network-Based Cellular Signatures NIH Program: System-Level Cataloging of Human Cells Response to Perturbations. Cell Syst 2018; 6:13-24. [PMID: 29199020 PMCID: PMC5799026 DOI: 10.1016/j.cels.2017.11.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 241] [Impact Index Per Article: 40.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/27/2017] [Revised: 09/13/2017] [Accepted: 11/01/2017] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
Abstract
The Library of Integrated Network-Based Cellular Signatures (LINCS) is an NIH Common Fund program that catalogs how human cells globally respond to chemical, genetic, and disease perturbations. Resources generated by LINCS include experimental and computational methods, visualization tools, molecular and imaging data, and signatures. By assembling an integrated picture of the range of responses of human cells exposed to many perturbations, the LINCS program aims to better understand human disease and to advance the development of new therapies. Perturbations under study include drugs, genetic perturbations, tissue micro-environments, antibodies, and disease-causing mutations. Responses to perturbations are measured by transcript profiling, mass spectrometry, cell imaging, and biochemical methods, among other assays. The LINCS program focuses on cellular physiology shared among tissues and cell types relevant to an array of diseases, including cancer, heart disease, and neurodegenerative disorders. This Perspective describes LINCS technologies, datasets, tools, and approaches to data accessibility and reusability.
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- Alexandra B Keenan
- BD2K-LINCS DCIC, Mount Sinai Center for Bioinformatics, Department of Pharmacological Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA
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- BD2K-LINCS DCIC, Mount Sinai Center for Bioinformatics, Department of Pharmacological Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA
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- BD2K-LINCS DCIC, Mount Sinai Center for Bioinformatics, Department of Pharmacological Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA
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- BD2K-LINCS DCIC, Mount Sinai Center for Bioinformatics, Department of Pharmacological Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA
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- BD2K-LINCS DCIC, Mount Sinai Center for Bioinformatics, Department of Pharmacological Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA
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- BD2K-LINCS DCIC, Mount Sinai Center for Bioinformatics, Department of Pharmacological Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA
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- BD2K-LINCS DCIC, Mount Sinai Center for Bioinformatics, Department of Pharmacological Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA
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- BD2K-LINCS DCIC, Mount Sinai Center for Bioinformatics, Department of Pharmacological Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA
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- BD2K-LINCS DCIC, Mount Sinai Center for Bioinformatics, Department of Pharmacological Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA
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- BD2K-LINCS DCIC, Mount Sinai Center for Bioinformatics, Department of Pharmacological Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA
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- BD2K-LINCS DCIC, Mount Sinai Center for Bioinformatics, Department of Pharmacological Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA
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- BD2K-LINCS DCIC, Mount Sinai Center for Bioinformatics, Department of Pharmacological Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA.
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- BD2K-LINCS DCIC, Department of Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology, University of Miami, Miami, FL 33146, USA
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- BD2K-LINCS DCIC, Department of Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology, University of Miami, Miami, FL 33146, USA
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- BD2K-LINCS DCIC, Department of Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology, University of Miami, Miami, FL 33146, USA
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- BD2K-LINCS DCIC, Department of Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology, University of Miami, Miami, FL 33146, USA
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- BD2K-LINCS DCIC, Department of Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology, University of Miami, Miami, FL 33146, USA
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- BD2K-LINCS DCIC, Department of Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology, University of Miami, Miami, FL 33146, USA
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- BD2K-LINCS DCIC, Department of Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology, University of Miami, Miami, FL 33146, USA
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- BD2K-LINCS DCIC, Department of Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology, University of Miami, Miami, FL 33146, USA
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- BD2K-LINCS DCIC, Department of Environmental Health, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45220, USA
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- BD2K-LINCS DCIC, Department of Environmental Health, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45220, USA
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- BD2K-LINCS DCIC, Department of Environmental Health, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45220, USA
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- BD2K-LINCS DCIC, Department of Environmental Health, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45220, USA
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- BD2K-LINCS DCIC, Department of Environmental Health, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45220, USA
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- BD2K-LINCS DCIC, Department of Environmental Health, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45220, USA
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- BD2K-LINCS DCIC, Department of Environmental Health, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45220, USA
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- BD2K-LINCS DCIC, Department of Environmental Health, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45220, USA
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- BD2K-LINCS DCIC, Department of Environmental Health, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45220, USA
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- BD2K-LINCS DCIC, Department of Environmental Health, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45220, USA
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- BD2K-LINCS DCIC, Department of Environmental Health, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45220, USA
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- BD2K-LINCS DCIC, Department of Environmental Health, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45220, USA
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- BD2K-LINCS DCIC, Department of Environmental Health, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45220, USA
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- BD2K-LINCS DCIC, Department of Environmental Health, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45220, USA
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- BD2K-LINCS DCIC, Department of Environmental Health, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45220, USA
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- DToxS, Department of Pharmacological Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA
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- DToxS, Department of Pharmacological Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA
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- DToxS, Department of Pharmacological Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA
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- DToxS, Department of Pharmacological Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA
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- DToxS, Department of Pharmacological Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA
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- NeuroLINCS, Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease and the Departments of Neurology and Physiology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA
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- NeuroLINCS, Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease and the Departments of Neurology and Physiology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA
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- NeuroLINCS, Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease and the Departments of Neurology and Physiology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA
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- NeuroLINCS, Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease and the Departments of Neurology and Physiology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA
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- NeuroLINCS, Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease and the Departments of Neurology and Physiology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA
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- NeuroLINCS, Department of Biological Engineering, MIT, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA
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- NeuroLINCS, Department of Biological Engineering, MIT, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA
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- NeuroLINCS, Department of Biological Engineering, MIT, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA
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- NeuroLINCS, Department of Biological Engineering, MIT, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA
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- NeuroLINCS, Department of Biological Engineering, MIT, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA
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- NeuroLINCS, Department of Biological Engineering, MIT, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA
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- NeuroLINCS, Department of Biological Engineering, MIT, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA
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- NeuroLINCS, Department of Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
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- NeuroLINCS, Department of Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
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- NeuroLINCS, Department of Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
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- NeuroLINCS, Department of Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
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- NeuroLINCS, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA 90048, USA
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- NeuroLINCS, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA 90048, USA
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- NeuroLINCS, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA 90048, USA
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- NeuroLINCS, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA 90048, USA
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- NeuroLINCS, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA 90048, USA
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- NeuroLINCS, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA 90048, USA
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- NeuroLINCS, Departments of Psychiatry and Human Behavior and Neurobiology and Behavior, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697, USA
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- NeuroLINCS, Departments of Psychiatry and Human Behavior and Neurobiology and Behavior, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697, USA
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- NeuroLINCS, Departments of Psychiatry and Human Behavior and Neurobiology and Behavior, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697, USA
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- NeuroLINCS, Departments of Psychiatry and Human Behavior and Neurobiology and Behavior, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697, USA
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- NeuroLINCS, Departments of Psychiatry and Human Behavior and Neurobiology and Behavior, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697, USA
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- NeuroLINCS, Departments of Psychiatry and Human Behavior and Neurobiology and Behavior, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697, USA
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- NeuroLINCS, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA 90048, USA
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- NeuroLINCS, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA 90048, USA
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- LINCS PCCSE, The Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA
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- LINCS Center for Transcriptomics, The Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA
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- LINCS Center for Transcriptomics, The Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA; Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA 02215, USA; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Chevy Chase, MD 20815, USA; Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- HMS LINCS Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- HMS LINCS Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- HMS LINCS Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- HMS LINCS Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- HMS LINCS Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- HMS LINCS Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- HMS LINCS Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- MEP-LINCS Center, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR 97239, USA
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- MEP-LINCS Center, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR 97239, USA
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- MEP-LINCS Center, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR 97239, USA
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- MEP-LINCS Center, Department of Systems Biology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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- MEP-LINCS Center, Department of Population Sciences, Beckman Research Institute at City of Hope, Duarte, CA 91011, USA; MEP-LINCS Center, Center for Cancer Biomarkers Research, University of Bergen, Bergen 5009, Norway
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- MEP-LINCS Center, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR 97239, USA
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- MEP-LINCS Center, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR 97239, USA
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- MEP-LINCS Center, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR 97239, USA
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- MEP-LINCS Center, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR 97239, USA; MEP-LINCS Center, Quantitative Imaging Systems LLC, Portland, OR 97239, USA
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- MEP-LINCS Center, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR 97239, USA; MEP-LINCS Center, Quantitative Imaging Systems LLC, Portland, OR 97239, USA
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- MEP-LINCS Center, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR 97239, USA
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- MEP-LINCS Center, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR 97239, USA
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- MEP-LINCS Center, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR 97239, USA
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- MEP-LINCS Center, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR 97239, USA
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Predicting inhibitory and activatory drug targets by chemically and genetically perturbed transcriptome signatures. Sci Rep 2018; 8:156. [PMID: 29317676 PMCID: PMC5760621 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-18315-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/28/2017] [Accepted: 12/08/2017] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Genome-wide identification of all target proteins of drug candidate compounds is a challenging issue in drug discovery. Moreover, emerging phenotypic effects, including therapeutic and adverse effects, are heavily dependent on the inhibition or activation of target proteins. Here we propose a novel computational method for predicting inhibitory and activatory targets of drug candidate compounds. Specifically, we integrated chemically-induced and genetically-perturbed gene expression profiles in human cell lines, which avoided dependence on chemical structures of compounds or proteins. Predictive models for individual target proteins were simultaneously constructed by the joint learning algorithm based on transcriptomic changes in global patterns of gene expression profiles following chemical treatments, and following knock-down and over-expression of proteins. This method discriminates between inhibitory and activatory targets and enables accurate identification of therapeutic effects. Herein, we comprehensively predicted drug-target-disease association networks for 1,124 drugs, 829 target proteins, and 365 human diseases, and validated some of these predictions in vitro. The proposed method is expected to facilitate identification of new drug indications and potential adverse effects.
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Hodos R, Zhang P, Lee HC, Duan Q, Wang Z, Clark NR, Ma'ayan A, Wang F, Kidd B, Hu J, Sontag D, Dudley J. Cell-specific prediction and application of drug-induced gene expression profiles. PACIFIC SYMPOSIUM ON BIOCOMPUTING. PACIFIC SYMPOSIUM ON BIOCOMPUTING 2018; 23:32-43. [PMID: 29218867 PMCID: PMC5753597] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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Gene expression profiling of in vitro drug perturbations is useful for many biomedical discovery applications including drug repurposing and elucidation of drug mechanisms. However, limited data availability across cell types has hindered our capacity to leverage or explore the cell-specificity of these perturbations. While recent efforts have generated a large number of drug perturbation profiles across a variety of human cell types, many gaps remain in this combinatorial drug-cell space. Hence, we asked whether it is possible to fill these gaps by predicting cell-specific drug perturbation profiles using available expression data from related conditions--i.e. from other drugs and cell types. We developed a computational framework that first arranges existing profiles into a three-dimensional array (or tensor) indexed by drugs, genes, and cell types, and then uses either local (nearest-neighbors) or global (tensor completion) information to predict unmeasured profiles. We evaluate prediction accuracy using a variety of metrics, and find that the two methods have complementary performance, each superior in different regions in the drug-cell space. Predictions achieve correlations of 0.68 with true values, and maintain accurate differentially expressed genes (AUC 0.81). Finally, we demonstrate that the predicted profiles add value for making downstream associations with drug targets and therapeutic classes.
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- Rachel Hodos
- Institute for Next Generation Healthcare, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (ISMMS), New York, NY, 10065; New York, USA, ²Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, ISMMS, New York, NY, 10029; New York, USA, ³Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University, New York, NY, 10012; New York, USA
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Most drugs produce their phenotypic effects by interacting with target proteins, and understanding the molecular features that underpin drug-target interactions is crucial when designing a novel drug. In this chapter, we introduce the protocols that have driven recent advances in sparse modeling methods for analyzing drug-target interaction networks within a chemogenomic framework. In this approach, the chemical structures of candidate drug compounds are correlated with the genomic sequences of the candidate target proteins. We demonstrate the use of sparse canonical correspondence analysis and sparsity-induced binary classifiers to extract the underlying molecular features that are most strongly involved in drug-target interactions. We focus on drug chemical substructures and protein domains. Workflows for applying these methods are presented, and an application is described in detail. We consider the characteristics of each method and suggest possible directions for future research.
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Nishimura Y, Tagawa M, Ito H, Tsuruma K, Hara H. Overcoming Obstacles to Drug Repositioning in Japan. Front Pharmacol 2017; 8:729. [PMID: 29075191 PMCID: PMC5641581 DOI: 10.3389/fphar.2017.00729] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/26/2017] [Accepted: 09/28/2017] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Drug repositioning (DR) is the process of identifying new indications for existing drugs. DR usually focuses on drugs that have cleared phase-I safety trials but has yet to show efficacy for the intended indication. Therefore, DR can probably skip the preclinical and phase-I study, which can reduce the cost throughout drug development. However, the expensive phase-II/III trials are required to establish efficacy. The obstacles to DR include identification of new indications with a high success rate in clinical studies, obtaining funding for clinical studies, patent protection, and approval systems. To tackle these obstacles, various approaches have been applied to DR worldwide. In this perspective, we provide representative examples of DR and discuss the ongoing efforts to overcome obstacles to DR in Japan.
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- Yuhei Nishimura
- Department of Integrative Pharmacology, Mie University Graduate School of Medicine, Tsu, Japan
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- Medical Affairs, Sumitomo Dainippon Pharma Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of CNS Research, Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Tokushima, Japan
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- Molecular Pharmacology, Department of Biofunctional Evaluation, Gifu Pharmaceutical University, Gifu, Japan
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- Molecular Pharmacology, Department of Biofunctional Evaluation, Gifu Pharmaceutical University, Gifu, Japan
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Taguchi YH. Identification of Candidate Drugs for Heart Failure Using Tensor Decomposition-Based Unsupervised Feature Extraction Applied to Integrated Analysis of Gene Expression Between Heart Failure and DrugMatrix Datasets. INTELLIGENT COMPUTING THEORIES AND APPLICATION 2017. [DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-63312-1_45] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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