GSRF-DTI: a Framework for Drug-target Interaction Prediction Based on a Drug-target Pair Network and Representation Learning on a Large Graph

Overview

Journal BMC Biol

Publisher Biomed Central

Specialty Biology

Date 2024 Jul 17

PMID 39020316

Authors

Yongdi Zhu

Chunhui Ning

Naiqian Zhang

Mingyi Wang

Yusen Zhang

Affiliations

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Abstract

Background: Identification of potential drug-target interactions (DTIs) with high accuracy is a key step in drug discovery and repositioning, especially concerning specific drug targets. Traditional experimental methods for identifying the DTIs are arduous, time-intensive, and financially burdensome. In addition, robust computational methods have been developed for predicting the DTIs and are widely applied in drug discovery research. However, advancing more precise algorithms for predicting DTIs is essential to meet the stringent standards demanded by drug discovery.

Results: We proposed a novel method called GSRF-DTI, which integrates networks with a deep learning algorithm to identify DTIs. Firstly, GSRF-DTI learned the embedding representation of drugs and targets by integrating multiple drug association information and target association information, respectively. Then, GSRF-DTI considered the influence of drug-target pair (DTP) association on DTI prediction to construct a drug-target pair network (DTP-NET). Next, we utilized GraphSAGE on DTP-NET to learn the potential features of the network and applied random forest (RF) to predict the DTIs. Furthermore, we conducted ablation experiments to validate the necessity of integrating different types of network features for identifying DTIs. It is worth noting that GSRF-DTI proposed three novel DTIs.

Conclusions: GSRF-DTI not only considered the influence of the interaction relationship between drug and target but also considered the impact of DTP association relationship on DTI prediction. We initially use GraphSAGE to aggregate the neighbor information of nodes for better identification. Experimental analysis on Luo's dataset and the newly constructed dataset revealed that the GSRF-DTI framework outperformed several state-of-the-art methods significantly.

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