Learning self-supervised molecular representations for drug–drug interaction prediction

Abstract Drug–drug interactions (DDI) are a critical concern in healthcare due to their potential to cause adverse effects and compromise patient safety. Supervised machine learning models for DDI prediction need to be optimized to learn abstract, transferable features, and generalize to larger chemical spaces, primarily due to the scarcity of high-quality labeled DDI data. Inspired by recent advances in computer vision, we present SMR–DDI, a self-supervised framework that leverages contrastive learning to embed drugs into a scaffold-based feature space. Molecular scaffolds represent the core structural motifs that drive pharmacological activities, making them valuable for learning informative representations. Specifically, we pre-trained SMR–DDI on a large-scale unlabeled molecular dataset. We generated augmented views for each molecule via SMILES enumeration and optimized the embedding process through contrastive loss minimization between views. This enables the model to capture relevant and robust molecular features while reducing noise. We then transfer the learned representations for the downstream prediction of DDI. Experiments show that the new feature space has comparable expressivity to state-of-the-art molecular representations and achieved competitive DDI prediction results while training on less data. Additional investigations also revealed that pre-training on more extensive and diverse unlabeled molecular datasets improved the model’s capability to embed molecules more effectively. Our results highlight contrastive learning as a promising approach for DDI prediction that can identify potentially hazardous drug combinations using only structural information..

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:25

Enthalten in:

BMC bioinformatics - 25(2024), 1 vom: 30. Jan.

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Kpanou, Rogia [VerfasserIn]
Dallaire, Patrick [VerfasserIn]
Rousseau, Elsa [VerfasserIn]
Corbeil, Jacques [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Contrastive learning
Deep neural networks
Drug–drug interactions
Fine-tuning
Representation learning
Smiles enumeration
Transfer learning

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© The Author(s) 2024

doi:

10.1186/s12859-024-05643-7

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SPR054589908