基于自动编码多关系图的多任务学习来预测协同药物组合
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Wenyu Shan1, Cong Shen2, Lingyun Luo1,3
1School of Computer Science, University of South China, Hengyang, Hunan 421001, China.
iScience
|October 19, 2023
概括
预测复杂疾病的协同药物组合是困难的. 一个新的计算框架VGAETF有效地使用多关系图识别了强有力的药物配对,从而推进了组合药物治疗.
科学领域:
- 计算生物学是一种计算生物学.
- 药理学 药理学是指药理学的学科.
- 生物信息学是一种生物信息学.
背景情况:
- 组合药物治疗提供了一个有希望的策略来治疗复杂的疾病,利用协同作用的药物效应.
- 预测有效的药物组合仍然是一个重大挑战,因为复杂的生物系统和疾病机制和药物点的不完全知识.
研究的目的:
- 提出一个计算框架,VGAETF (变量图自编码器张量分解),用于预测与疾病相关的协同药物组合.
- 利用多关系图来建模复杂的生物实体相互作用.
主要方法:
- 开发了VGAETF,这是一个使用多关系图的端到端计算框架.
- 采用变量图自编码器和张量分解技术来建模复杂的关系.
- 基于已知的生物相互作用预测的协同药物组合.
主要成果:
- VGAETF表现出高预测性能,接收器操作特征曲线下的面积 (AUROC) 为0.9767和精度召回曲线下的面积 (AUPR) 为0.9660.
- 拟议的框架在预测协同药物组合方面优于现有方法.
- 案例研究验证了VGAETF在识别潜在的与疾病相关的协同药物对中的有效性.
结论:
- VGAETF提供了一种有效的计算方法,用于预测协同作用的药物组合.
- 该框架推进了基于图形的深度学习在药物发现和组合疗法中的应用.
- VGAETF有可能加速对复杂疾病的新型组合疗法的开发.
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