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DDI-PULearn: a positive-unlabeled learning method for large-scale prediction of drug-drug interactions.


ABSTRACT:

Background

Drug-drug interactions (DDIs) are a major concern in patients' medication. It's unfeasible to identify all potential DDIs using experimental methods which are time-consuming and expensive. Computational methods provide an effective strategy, however, facing challenges due to the lack of experimentally verified negative samples.

Results

To address this problem, we propose a novel positive-unlabeled learning method named DDI-PULearn for large-scale drug-drug-interaction predictions. DDI-PULearn first generates seeds of reliable negatives via OCSVM (one-class support vector machine) under a high-recall constraint and via the cosine-similarity based KNN (k-nearest neighbors) as well. Then trained with all the labeled positives (i.e., the validated DDIs) and the generated seed negatives, DDI-PULearn employs an iterative SVM to identify a set of entire reliable negatives from the unlabeled samples (i.e., the unobserved DDIs). Following that, DDI-PULearn represents all the labeled positives and the identified negatives as vectors of abundant drug properties by a similarity-based method. Finally, DDI-PULearn transforms these vectors into a lower-dimensional space via PCA (principal component analysis) and utilizes the compressed vectors as input for binary classifications. The performance of DDI-PULearn is evaluated on simulative prediction for 149,878 possible interactions between 548 drugs, comparing with two baseline methods and five state-of-the-art methods. Related experiment results show that the proposed method for the representation of DDIs characterizes them accurately. DDI-PULearn achieves superior performance owing to the identified reliable negatives, outperforming all other methods significantly. In addition, the predicted novel DDIs suggest that DDI-PULearn is capable to identify novel DDIs.

Conclusions

The results demonstrate that positive-unlabeled learning paves a new way to tackle the problem caused by the lack of experimentally verified negatives in the computational prediction of DDIs.

SUBMITTER: Zheng Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6929327 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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DDI-PULearn: a positive-unlabeled learning method for large-scale prediction of drug-drug interactions.

Zheng Yi Y   Peng Hui H   Zhang Xiaocai X   Zhao Zhixun Z   Gao Xiaoying X   Li Jinyan J  

BMC bioinformatics 20191224 Suppl 19


<h4>Background</h4>Drug-drug interactions (DDIs) are a major concern in patients' medication. It's unfeasible to identify all potential DDIs using experimental methods which are time-consuming and expensive. Computational methods provide an effective strategy, however, facing challenges due to the lack of experimentally verified negative samples.<h4>Results</h4>To address this problem, we propose a novel positive-unlabeled learning method named DDI-PULearn for large-scale drug-drug-interaction p  ...[more]

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