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Toward better drug discovery with knowledge graph
Abstract
Drug discovery is the process of new drug identification. This process is driven by the increasing data from existing chemical libraries and data banks. The knowledge graph is introduced to the domain of drug discovery for imposing an explicit structure to integrate heterogeneous biomedical data. The graph can provide structured relations among multiple entities and unstructured semantic relations associated with entities. In this review, we summarize knowledge graph-based works that implement drug repurposing and adverse drug reaction prediction for drug discovery. As knowledge representation learning is a common way to explore knowledge graphs for prediction problems, we introduce several representative embedding models to provide a comprehensive understanding of knowledge representation learning.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Zeng, X., Tu, X., Liu, Y., Fu, X., & Su, Y.
- Affiliations
- Hunan University (CN)
- Anhui University (CN)
- Corresponding author
- Liu, Yuansheng
- Venue
- Current Opinion in Structural Biology
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2022-02
- Volume
- 72
- Pages
- 114-126
- ISSN
- 0959-440X (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W3207365242
- Cited by
- 229
- References
- 101
- Citations by year
- 2026: 20 · 2025: 62 · 2024: 53 · 2023: 64 · 2022: 28
- FWCI
- 2.85
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- Locations
- Current Opinion in Structural Biology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (531118010626)
- National Natural Science Foundation of China (61872309)
- National Key Research and Development Program of China (2021YFE0102100)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics › Drug Discovery › Computational Drug Discovery Methods
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Advanced Graph Neural Networks
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Health Informatics › Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies
- Keywords
- knowledge graphs, drug discovery, drug repurposing, adverse drug reaction prediction, knowledge representation learning, entity embeddings, semantic relations
- MeSH terms
- Algorithms, Pattern Recognition, Automated, Knowledge, Drug Discovery, Drug Repositioning
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