Drug repositioning based on weighted local information augmented graph neural network

© The Author(s) 2023. Published by Oxford University Press..

Drug repositioning, the strategy of redirecting existing drugs to new therapeutic purposes, is pivotal in accelerating drug discovery. While many studies have engaged in modeling complex drug-disease associations, they often overlook the relevance between different node embeddings. Consequently, we propose a novel weighted local information augmented graph neural network model, termed DRAGNN, for drug repositioning. Specifically, DRAGNN firstly incorporates a graph attention mechanism to dynamically allocate attention coefficients to drug and disease heterogeneous nodes, enhancing the effectiveness of target node information collection. To prevent excessive embedding of information in a limited vector space, we omit self-node information aggregation, thereby emphasizing valuable heterogeneous and homogeneous information. Additionally, average pooling in neighbor information aggregation is introduced to enhance local information while maintaining simplicity. A multi-layer perceptron is then employed to generate the final association predictions. The model's effectiveness for drug repositioning is supported by a 10-times 10-fold cross-validation on three benchmark datasets. Further validation is provided through analysis of the predicted associations using multiple authoritative data sources, molecular docking experiments and drug-disease network analysis, laying a solid foundation for future drug discovery.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:25

Enthalten in:

Briefings in bioinformatics - 25(2023), 1 vom: 22. Nov.

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Meng, Yajie [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Yi [VerfasserIn]
Xu, Junlin [VerfasserIn]
Lu, Changcheng [VerfasserIn]
Tang, Xianfang [VerfasserIn]
Peng, Tao [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Bengong [VerfasserIn]
Tian, Geng [VerfasserIn]
Yang, Jialiang [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Drug–disease association
Drug repositioning
Graph attention mechanism
Graph neural network
Journal Article
Local information augmentation
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

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Date Completed 01.12.2023

Date Revised 22.01.2024

published: Print

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1093/bib/bbad431

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM365108774