De Novo Prediction of Drug Targets and Candidates by Chemical Similarity-Guided Network-Based Inference

dc.contributor.authorVigil-Vasquez, Carlos
dc.contributor.authorSchuller, Andreas
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-20T21:02:42Z
dc.date.available2025-01-20T21:02:42Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.description.abstractIdentifying drug-target interactions is a crucial step in discovering novel drugs and for drug repositioning. Network-based methods have shown great potential thanks to the straightforward integration of information from different sources and the possibility of extracting novel information from the graph topology. However, despite recent advances, there is still an urgent need for efficient and robust prediction methods. Here, we present SimSpread, a novel method that combines network-based inference with chemical similarity. This method employs a tripartite drug-drug-target network constructed from protein-ligand interaction annotations and drug-drug chemical similarity on which a resource-spreading algorithm predicts potential biological targets for both known or failed drugs and novel compounds. We describe small molecules as vectors of similarity indices to other compounds, thereby providing a flexible means to explore diverse molecular representations. We show that our proposed method achieves high prediction performance through multiple cross-validation and time-split validation procedures over a series of datasets. In addition, we demonstrate that our method performed a balanced exploration of both chemical ligand space (scaffold hopping) and biological target space (target hopping). Our results suggest robust and balanced performance, and our method may be useful for predicting drug targets, virtual screening, and drug repositioning.
dc.fuente.origenWOS
dc.identifier.doi10.3390/ijms23179666
dc.identifier.eissn1422-0067
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.3390/ijms23179666
dc.identifier.urihttps://repositorio.uc.cl/handle/11534/93074
dc.identifier.wosidWOS:000851915400001
dc.issue.numero17
dc.language.isoen
dc.revistaInternational journal of molecular sciences
dc.rightsacceso restringido
dc.subjecttarget prediction
dc.subjectdrug-target interaction
dc.subjectnetwork-based inference
dc.subjectdrug repositioning
dc.subjectdrug discovery
dc.subject.ods03 Good Health and Well-being
dc.subject.odspa03 Salud y bienestar
dc.titleDe Novo Prediction of Drug Targets and Candidates by Chemical Similarity-Guided Network-Based Inference
dc.typeartículo
dc.volumen23
sipa.indexWOS
sipa.trazabilidadWOS;2025-01-12
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