Drug repositioning based on heterogeneous networks and variational graph autoencoders

Predicting new therapeutic effects (drug repositioning) of existing drugs plays an important role in drug development. However, traditional wet experimental prediction methods are usually time-consuming and costly. The emergence of more and more artificial intelligence-based drug repositioning metho...

Ausführliche Beschreibung

Gespeichert in:
Bibliographische Detailangaben
Veröffentlicht in:Frontiers in pharmacology Jg. 13; S. 1056605
Hauptverfasser: Lei, Song, Lei, Xiujuan, Liu, Lian
Format: Journal Article
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Switzerland Frontiers Media S.A 21.12.2022
Schlagworte:
ISSN:1663-9812, 1663-9812
Online-Zugang:Volltext
Tags: Tag hinzufügen
Keine Tags, Fügen Sie den ersten Tag hinzu!
Beschreibung
Zusammenfassung:Predicting new therapeutic effects (drug repositioning) of existing drugs plays an important role in drug development. However, traditional wet experimental prediction methods are usually time-consuming and costly. The emergence of more and more artificial intelligence-based drug repositioning methods in the past 2 years has facilitated drug development. In this study we propose a drug repositioning method, VGAEDR, based on a heterogeneous network of multiple drug attributes and a variational graph autoencoder. First, a drug-disease heterogeneous network is established based on three drug attributes, disease semantic information, and known drug-disease associations. Second, low-dimensional feature representations for heterogeneous networks are learned through a variational graph autoencoder module and a multi-layer convolutional module. Finally, the feature representation is fed to a fully connected layer and a Softmax layer to predict new drug-disease associations. Comparative experiments with other baseline methods on three datasets demonstrate the excellent performance of VGAEDR. In the case study, we predicted the top 10 possible anti-COVID-19 drugs on the existing drug and disease data, and six of them were verified by other literatures.
Bibliographie:ObjectType-Article-1
SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1
ObjectType-Feature-2
content type line 23
Seyedehzahra Sajadi, Yazd University, Iran
Edited by: Sajjad Gharaghani, University of Tehran, Iran
This article was submitted to Experimental Pharmacology and Drug Discovery, a section of the journal Frontiers in Pharmacology
Reviewed by: Luciana Scotti, Federal University of Paraíba, Brazil
ISSN:1663-9812
1663-9812
DOI:10.3389/fphar.2022.1056605