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Network Insights into Improving Drug Target Inference Algorithms

Wang, M.; Noh, H.; Mochan, E.; Shoemaker, J. E.

2020-01-18 systems biology
10.1101/2020.01.17.910885 bioRxiv
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To improve the efficacy of drug research and development (R&D), a better understanding of drug mechanisms of action (MoA) is needed to improve drug discovery. Computational algorithms, such as ProTINA, that integrate protein-protein interactions (PPIs), protein-gene interactions (PGIs) and gene expression data have shown promising performance on drug target inference. In this work, we evaluated how network and gene expression data affect ProTINAs accuracy. Network data predominantly determines the accuracy of ProTINA instead of gene expression, while the size of an interaction network or selecting cell/tissue-specific networks have limited effects on the accuracy. However, we found that protein network betweenness values showed high accuracy in predicting drug targets. Therefore, we suggested a new algorithm, TREAP (https://github.com/ImmuSystems-Lab/TREAP), that combines betweenness values and adjusted p-values for target inference. This algorithm has resulted in higher accuracy than ProTINA using the same datasets.

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