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Computational drug repositioning through heterogeneous network clustering
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Wu C
; Gudivada RC
; Aronow BJ
; Jegga AG
BMC Syst Biol
2013[]; 7 Suppl 5
(Suppl 5
): S6
PMID24564976
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BACKGROUND: 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. RESULTS: 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.
CONCLUSIONS: 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.
|Alzheimer Disease/drug therapy
[MESH]
|Amyloid Precursor Protein Secretases/antagonists & inhibitors
[MESH]