Predicting drug combination side effects based on a metapath-based heterogeneous graph neural network

Abstract In recent years, combined drug screening has played a very important role in modern drug discovery. Generally, synergistic drug combinations are crucial in treatment for many diseases. However, the toxic side effects of drug combinations are probably increased with the increase of drugs num...

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Main Authors: Leixia Tian, Qi Wang, Zhiheng Zhou, Xiya Liu, Ming Zhang, Guiying Yan
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Language:English
Published: BMC 2025-01-01
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12859-024-06028-6
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Qi Wang
Zhiheng Zhou
Xiya Liu
Ming Zhang
Guiying Yan
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Qi Wang
Zhiheng Zhou
Xiya Liu
Ming Zhang
Guiying Yan
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description Abstract In recent years, combined drug screening has played a very important role in modern drug discovery. Generally, synergistic drug combinations are crucial in treatment for many diseases. However, the toxic side effects of drug combinations are probably increased with the increase of drugs numbers, so the accurate prediction of toxic side effects of drug combinations is equally important. In this paper, we built a Metapath-based Aggregated Embedding Model on Single Drug–Side Effect Heterogeneous Information Network (MAEM-SSHIN), which extracts feature from a heterogeneous information network of single drug side effects, and a Graph Convolutional Network on Combinatorial drugs and Side effect Heterogeneous Information Network (GCN-CSHIN), which transforms the complex task of predicting multiple side effects between drug pairs into the more manageable prediction of relationships between combinatorial drugs and individual side effects. MAEM-SSHIN and GCN-CSHIN provided a united novel framework for predicting potential side effects in combinatorial drug therapies. This integration enhances prediction accuracy, efficiency, and scalability. Our experimental results demonstrate that this combined framework outperforms existing methodologies in predicting side effects, and marks a significant advancement in pharmaceutical research.
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spelling doaj-art-ecfbce59056f48ef81cdebf3ae2c6aa22025-01-19T12:40:53ZengBMCBMC Bioinformatics1471-21052025-01-0126112010.1186/s12859-024-06028-6Predicting drug combination side effects based on a metapath-based heterogeneous graph neural networkLeixia Tian0Qi Wang1Zhiheng Zhou2Xiya Liu3Ming Zhang4Guiying Yan5Beijing SchoolCollege of Science, China Agricultural UniversityAcademy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of SciencesInstitute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of SciencesAcademy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of SciencesAcademy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of SciencesAbstract In recent years, combined drug screening has played a very important role in modern drug discovery. Generally, synergistic drug combinations are crucial in treatment for many diseases. However, the toxic side effects of drug combinations are probably increased with the increase of drugs numbers, so the accurate prediction of toxic side effects of drug combinations is equally important. In this paper, we built a Metapath-based Aggregated Embedding Model on Single Drug–Side Effect Heterogeneous Information Network (MAEM-SSHIN), which extracts feature from a heterogeneous information network of single drug side effects, and a Graph Convolutional Network on Combinatorial drugs and Side effect Heterogeneous Information Network (GCN-CSHIN), which transforms the complex task of predicting multiple side effects between drug pairs into the more manageable prediction of relationships between combinatorial drugs and individual side effects. MAEM-SSHIN and GCN-CSHIN provided a united novel framework for predicting potential side effects in combinatorial drug therapies. This integration enhances prediction accuracy, efficiency, and scalability. Our experimental results demonstrate that this combined framework outperforms existing methodologies in predicting side effects, and marks a significant advancement in pharmaceutical research.https://doi.org/10.1186/s12859-024-06028-6Combinatorial drugsSide effect predictionMetapathGraph convolutional networkHeterogeneous information network
spellingShingle Leixia Tian
Qi Wang
Zhiheng Zhou
Xiya Liu
Ming Zhang
Guiying Yan
Predicting drug combination side effects based on a metapath-based heterogeneous graph neural network
BMC Bioinformatics
Combinatorial drugs
Side effect prediction
Metapath
Graph convolutional network
Heterogeneous information network
title Predicting drug combination side effects based on a metapath-based heterogeneous graph neural network
title_full Predicting drug combination side effects based on a metapath-based heterogeneous graph neural network
title_fullStr Predicting drug combination side effects based on a metapath-based heterogeneous graph neural network
title_full_unstemmed Predicting drug combination side effects based on a metapath-based heterogeneous graph neural network
title_short Predicting drug combination side effects based on a metapath-based heterogeneous graph neural network
title_sort predicting drug combination side effects based on a metapath based heterogeneous graph neural network
topic Combinatorial drugs
Side effect prediction
Metapath
Graph convolutional network
Heterogeneous information network
url https://doi.org/10.1186/s12859-024-06028-6
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