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An integrative machine learning approach for prediction of toxicity-related drug safety

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Lysenko, Artem, Sharma, Alok, Boroevich, Keith A, Tsunoda, Tatsuhiko·2018·Life Science Alliance

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Abstract Recent trends in drug development have been marked by diminishing returns of escalating costs and falling rate of new drug approval. Unacceptable drug toxicity is a substantial cause of drug failure during clinical trials as well as the leading cause of drug withdraws after release to market. Computational methods capable of predicting these failures can reduce waste of resources and time devoted to the investigation of compounds that ultimately fail. We propose an original machine learning method that leverages identity of drug targets and off-targets, functional impact score computed from Gene Ontology annotations, and biological network data to predict drug toxicity. We demonstrate that our method (TargeTox) can distinguish potentially idiosyncratically toxic drugs from safe drugs and is also suitable for speculative evaluation of different target sets to support the design of optimal low-toxicity combinations. Summary blurb: Prediction of toxicity-related drug clinical trial failures, withdrawals from market and idiosyncratic toxicity risk by combining biological network analysis with machine learning.

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Authors
Lysenko, A., Sharma, A., Boroevich, K. A., & Tsunoda, T.
Affiliations
  • RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences (JP)
  • Tokyo Medical and Dental University (JP)
Corresponding author
  • Lysenko, Artem
  • Tsunoda, Tatsuhiko
Venue
Life Science Alliance
Published
2018-11-28
Volume
1
Issue
6
Pages
e201800098
ISSN
2575-1077 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2898397916
Cited by
88
References
72
Citations by year
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FWCI
3.18
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Life Science Alliance (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (acceptedVersion, public-domain)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
  • Griffith Research Online (submittedVersion, cc-by)
Funders
  • Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology
  • Japan Science and Technology Agency (JPMJCR1412)
  • Japan Society for the Promotion of Science KAKENHI (18K18156, 17H06307, 17H06299)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computational Theory and Mathematics › Computational Drug Discovery Methods
  • Life Sciences › Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics › Toxicology › Pharmacovigilance and Adverse Drug Reactions
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks
Keywords
drug toxicity prediction, drug safety, idiosyncratic toxicity, therapeutic target, off-target effects, biological networks, drug combination toxicity, drug development failure

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