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Computational drug repositioning through heterogeneous network clustering.

ABSTRACT: Given the costly and time consuming process and high attrition rates in drug discovery and development, drug repositioning or drug repurposing is considered as a viable strategy both to replenish the drying out drug pipelines and to surmount the innovation gap. Although there is a growing recognition that mechanistic relationships from molecular to systems level should be integrated into drug discovery paradigms, relatively few studies have integrated information about heterogeneous networks into computational drug-repositioning candidate discovery platforms.Using known disease-gene and drug-target relationships from the KEGG database, we built a weighted disease and drug heterogeneous network. The nodes represent drugs or diseases while the edges represent shared gene, biological process, pathway, phenotype or a combination of these features. We clustered this weighted network to identify modules and then assembled all possible drug-disease pairs (putative drug repositioning candidates) from these modules. We validated our predictions by testing their robustness and evaluated them by their overlap with drug indications that were either reported in published literature or investigated in clinical trials.Previous computational approaches for drug repositioning focused either on drug-drug and disease-disease similarity approaches whereas we have taken a more holistic approach by considering drug-disease relationships also. Further, we considered not only gene but also other features to build the disease drug networks. Despite the relative simplicity of our approach, based on the robustness analyses and the overlap of some of our predictions with drug indications that are under investigation, we believe our approach could complement the current computational approaches for drug repositioning candidate discovery.

SUBMITTER: Wu C

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4029299 | biostudies-literature | 2013

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Computational drug repositioning through heterogeneous network clustering.

Wu Chao C Gudivada Ranga C RC Aronow Bruce J BJ Jegga Anil G AG

BMC systems biology 20131209

<h4>Background</h4>Given the costly and time consuming process and high attrition rates in drug discovery and development, drug repositioning or drug repurposing is considered as a viable strategy both to replenish the drying out drug pipelines and to surmount the innovation gap. Although there is a growing recognition that mechanistic relationships from molecular to systems level should be integrated into drug discovery paradigms, relatively few studies have integrated information about heterog ...[more]

PMID: 24564976

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Project description:Drug repositioning is the process of identifying new uses for existing drugs. Computational drug repositioning methods can reduce the time, costs and risks of drug development by automating the analysis of the relationships in pharmacology networks. Pharmacology networks are large and heterogeneous. Clustering drugs into small groups can simplify large pharmacology networks, these subgroups can also be used as a starting point for repositioning drugs. In this paper, we propose a two-tiered drug-centric unsupervised clustering approach for drug repositioning, integrating heterogeneous drug data profiles: drug-chemical, drug-disease, drug-gene, drug-protein and drug-side effect relationships.The proposed drug repositioning approach is threefold; (i) clustering drugs based on their homogeneous profiles using the Growing Self Organizing Map (GSOM); (ii) clustering drugs based on drug-drug relation matrices based on the previous step, considering three state-of-the-art graph clustering methods; and (iii) inferring drug repositioning candidates and assigning a confidence value for each identified candidate. In this paper, we compare our two-tiered clustering approach against two existing heterogeneous data integration approaches with reference to the Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical (ATC) classification, using GSOM. Our approach yields Normalized Mutual Information (NMI) and Standardized Mutual Information (SMI) of 0.66 and 36.11, respectively, while the two existing methods yield NMI of 0.60 and 0.64 and SMI of 22.26 and 33.59. Moreover, the two existing approaches failed to produce useful cluster separations when using graph clustering algorithms while our approach is able to identify useful clusters for drug repositioning. Furthermore, we provide clinical evidence for four predicted results (Chlorthalidone, Indomethacin, Metformin and Thioridazine) to support that our proposed approach can be reliably used to infer ATC code and drug repositioning.The proposed two-tiered unsupervised clustering approach is suitable for drug clustering and enables heterogeneous data integration. It also enables identifying reliable repositioning drug candidates with reference to ATC therapeutic classification. The repositioning drug candidates identified consistently by multiple clustering algorithms and with high confidence have a higher possibility of being effective repositioning candidates.

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