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Drug Repurposing Hypothesis Generation Using the "RE:fine Drugs" System
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ConvAHKG: Action-based hybrid knowledge graph with a dual-channel convolutional approach for drug repurposing
Marzieh Khodadadi AghGhaleh1,2, Rooholah Abedian3, Reza Zarghami2
1Laboratory of Bioinformatics and Drug Design (LBD), Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.
Scientific Reports
|February 6, 2026
Summary
ConvAHKG, a novel knowledge graph approach, enhances drug repurposing by predicting drug-disease associations. It identifies potential new treatments for diseases like non-small cell lung cancer, improving drug discovery efficiency.
Area of Science:
- Computational biology and bioinformatics
- Drug discovery and development
- Artificial intelligence in medicine
Background:
- Drug repurposing accelerates the identification of new therapeutic applications for existing drugs, reducing development time and costs.
- Predicting drug-disease associations is crucial for effective drug repurposing but faces challenges due to data complexity and class imbalance.
Purpose of the Study:
- To propose ConvAHKG, an action-based hybrid knowledge graph approach, for improved prediction of drug-disease associations.
- To leverage biological relationships and integrate drug/disease features for a comprehensive drug repurposing framework.
- To address class imbalance in drug-disease datasets and enhance predictive performance.
Main Methods:
- Utilized Word2Vec embeddings to capture semantic similarities among biological entities (drugs, proteins, diseases).
- Introduced a novel dual-channel 1D convolutional neural network (IDC_Conv1D) for classifying drug-disease pairs.
- Implemented a weighted binary cross-entropy loss function to mitigate class imbalance issues.
Main Results:
- ConvAHKG achieved superior performance compared to state-of-the-art models, with an Area Under the Curve (AUC) of 0.9836 and an Area Under the Precision-Recall Curve (AUPRC) of 0.9686.
- The framework successfully identified promising therapeutic candidates for non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), including Trastuzumab.
- Molecular docking analyses supported the potential of a predicted compound as a novel NSCLC treatment option.
Conclusions:
- ConvAHKG offers a robust and effective approach for drug repurposing and predicting drug-disease associations.
- The method demonstrates significant potential for identifying novel therapeutic strategies, particularly for complex diseases like NSCLC.
- The study provides a validated computational framework and open-source resources for advancing drug discovery efforts.
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