MGNDTI: A Drug-Target Interaction Prediction Framework Based on Multimodal Representation Learning and the Gating Mechanism.

Journal: Journal of chemical information and modeling
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Abstract

Drug-Target Interaction (DTI) prediction facilitates acceleration of drug discovery and promotes drug repositioning. Most existing deep learning-based DTI prediction methods can better extract discriminative features for drugs and proteins, but they rarely consider multimodal features of drugs. Moreover, learning the interaction representations between drugs and targets needs further exploration. Here, we proposed a simple  ulti-modal  ating  etwork for prediction, MGNDTI, based on multimodal representation learning and the gating mechanism. MGNDTI first learns the sequence representations of drugs and targets using different retentive networks. Next, it extracts molecular graph features of drugs through a graph convolutional network. Subsequently, it devises a multimodal gating network to obtain the joint representations of drugs and targets. Finally, it builds a fully connected network for computing the interaction probability. MGNDTI was benchmarked against seven state-of-the-art DTI prediction models (CPI-GNN, TransformerCPI, MolTrans, BACPI, CPGL, GIFDTI, and FOTF-CPI) using four data sets (i.e., Human, , BioSNAP, and BindingDB) under four different experimental settings. Through evaluation with AUROC, AUPRC, accuracy, F1 score, and MCC, MGNDTI significantly outperformed the above seven methods. MGNDTI is a powerful tool for DTI prediction, showcasing its superior robustness and generalization ability on diverse data sets and different experimental settings. It is freely available at https://github.com/plhhnu/MGNDTI.

Authors

  • Lihong Peng
    School of Computer Science, Hunan University of Technology, Zhuzhou, China.
  • Xin Liu
    Peking University Institute of Advanced Agricultural Sciences, Shandong Laboratory of Advanced Agricultural Sciences, Weifang, Shandong, China.
  • Min Chen
    School of Computer Science and TechnologyHuazhong University of Science and Technology Wuhan 430074 China.
  • Wen Liao
    School of Computer Science, Hunan University of Technology, Zhuzhou, Hunan 412007, China.
  • Jiale Mao
    School of Computer Science, Hunan University of Technology, Zhuzhou, Hunan 412007, China.
  • Liqian Zhou
    School of Computer Science, Hunan University of Technology, Zhuzhou, China.