Title
Predicting drug-disease associations by network embedding and biomedical data integration.
Abstract
Purpose The traditional drug development process is costly, time consuming and risky. Using computational methods to discover drug repositioning opportunities is a promising and efficient strategy in the era of big data. The explosive growth of large-scale genomic, phenotypic data and all kinds of "omics" data brings opportunities for developing new computational drug repositioning methods based on big data. The paper aims to discuss this issue. Design/methodology/approach Here, a new computational strategy is proposed for inferring drug-disease associations from rich biomedical resources toward drug repositioning. First, the network embedding (NE) algorithm is adopted to learn the latent feature representation of drugs from multiple biomedical resources. Furthermore, on the basis of the latent vectors of drugs from the NE module, a binary support vector machine classifier is trained to divide unknown drug-disease pairs into positive and negative instances. Finally, this model is validated on a well-established drug-disease association data set with tenfold cross-validation. Findings This model obtains the performance of an area under the receiver operating characteristic curve of 90.3 percent, which is comparable to those of similar systems. The authors also analyze the performance of the model and validate its effect on predicting the new indications of old drugs. Originality/value This study shows that the authors' method is predictive, identifying novel drug-disease interactions for drug discovery. The new feature learning methods also positively contribute to the heterogeneous data integration.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1108/DTA-01-2019-0004
DATA TECHNOLOGIES AND APPLICATIONS
Keywords
Field
DocType
Computational method,Data integration,Features,Drug repositioning,Drug-disease associations,Latent representation,Network embedding
Data integration,Drug repositioning,Drug discovery,Receiver operating characteristic,Drug development,Chemistry,Artificial intelligence,Chromatography,Network embedding,Big data,Feature learning,Machine learning
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
53.0
2.0
2514-9288
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Xiaomei Wei100.68
Yaliang Zhang200.34
Yu Huang300.34
Yaping Fang400.34