: Predicting drug side effects before they occur is a critical task for keeping the number of drug-related hospitalizations low and for improving drug discovery processes. Automatic predictors of side-effects generally are not able to process the structure of the drug, resulting in a loss of information. Graph neural networks have seen great success in recent years, thanks to their ability of exploiting the information conveyed by the graph structure and labels. These models have been used in a wide variety of biological applications, among which the prediction of drug side-effects on a large knowledge graph. Exploiting the molecular graph encoding the structure of the drug represents a novel approach, in which the problem is formulated as a multi-class multi-label graph-focused classification. We developed a methodology to carry out this task, using recurrent Graph Neural Networks, and building a dataset from freely accessible and well established data sources. The results show that our method has an improved classification capability, under many parameters and metrics, with respect to previously available predictors. The method is not ready for clinical tests yet, as the specificity is still below the preliminary 25 % threshold. Future efforts will aim at improving this aspect.

Bongini, P., Messori, E., Pancino, N., Bianchini, M. (2023). A Deep Learning Approach to the Prediction of Drug Side-Effects on Molecular Graphs. IEEE/ACM TRANSACTIONS ON COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY AND BIOINFORMATICS, 1-11 [10.1109/TCBB.2023.3311015].

A Deep Learning Approach to the Prediction of Drug Side-Effects on Molecular Graphs

Bongini, Pietro
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Pancino, Niccolo;Bianchini, Monica
2023-01-01

Abstract

: Predicting drug side effects before they occur is a critical task for keeping the number of drug-related hospitalizations low and for improving drug discovery processes. Automatic predictors of side-effects generally are not able to process the structure of the drug, resulting in a loss of information. Graph neural networks have seen great success in recent years, thanks to their ability of exploiting the information conveyed by the graph structure and labels. These models have been used in a wide variety of biological applications, among which the prediction of drug side-effects on a large knowledge graph. Exploiting the molecular graph encoding the structure of the drug represents a novel approach, in which the problem is formulated as a multi-class multi-label graph-focused classification. We developed a methodology to carry out this task, using recurrent Graph Neural Networks, and building a dataset from freely accessible and well established data sources. The results show that our method has an improved classification capability, under many parameters and metrics, with respect to previously available predictors. The method is not ready for clinical tests yet, as the specificity is still below the preliminary 25 % threshold. Future efforts will aim at improving this aspect.
2023
Bongini, P., Messori, E., Pancino, N., Bianchini, M. (2023). A Deep Learning Approach to the Prediction of Drug Side-Effects on Molecular Graphs. IEEE/ACM TRANSACTIONS ON COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY AND BIOINFORMATICS, 1-11 [10.1109/TCBB.2023.3311015].
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